It’s like you were all with me...357 max makes meat!

[nagantguy]

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Well at my honey hole spot; just before dark several doe came out of the swamp ; the doe with triplets for the second year is off the hit list, as her genetics are good. But another large doe that I hadn’t seen before or if I had not often came out; she was very alert and very huffy. I thought she would look great in the freezer for the four of us to eat this winter!

The contender frame I bought off a good friend; the 357 max barrel; the grip; the pacmyer forend with hanger bar, the torx head forend screws and the mold that made the RCBS 358-200 clone boolits all came from members here! And the long eye relief scope as well.

Head on shot at exactly 50 yards; at the shot she fell; got up, ran 5 yards and fell again got up and ran another 5-7 yards fell, got up the third time and ran 2 yards and crashed into a stand of autumn olive; the type with the 6 inch razor point thorns hard as bone.
Destroyed the front shoulder, pulped the lungs and took the top off the heart. More photos when I skin her out, and no recovered boolit as of yet!
One more should fill the freezer against winter shortages!
For this close range swamp hunting I think this contender in 357 max is a very good tool!

[Texas by God]

I love it. Well done! What's your load for the 200gr boolit?
What is that white stuff?

[nagantguy]

18 grains H110. And the white stuff is snow; been coming down in and off for 3 days; sure makes tracking easy!

[45&30-30]

Great story. The Village Gun. Congratulations.

[JSnover]

Of course we were with you.
Any chance you could spare a little venison for your friends?;)
Congratulations! I used to hunt the Harrison/Gladwin area, what part of Michigan are you in?

[Cloverdale]

Nice story...I had a .357 Max barrel for my Contender a couple of years ago...passed it along to someone else, although it shot well enough and liked it well enough...but at the time the brass was a hassle and I decided to let it go.

[clintsfolly]

Great Job! Strange that they can move that much with that much damage. I shot a Buck opening afternoon with my BFR 475L NOE 477-385wfn at 1100 35 yds hit the near shoulder thru the heart and out the ribs. He ran 75-80 yds and stopped staggered and fell over. Congrats again and Have Fun!

[missionary5155]

Good afternoon and Congratulations !
One fine looking doe to keep those hungry mouths happy. Snow on the ground does help tracking even if it is only 50 feet.

[Time Killer]

Congrats

[Hossfly]

Great shooting and good eating.

[nagantguy]

Great Job! Strange that they can move that much with that much damage. I shot a Buck opening afternoon with my BFR 475L NOE 477-385wfn at 1100 35 yds hit the near shoulder thru the heart and out the ribs. He ran 75-80 yds and stopped staggered and fell over. Congrats again and Have Fun!

Hello again old friend! Glad you scored but not surprised; I know you can shoot a handgun!

[bronte454]

I’ve got a Ruger Super Blackhawk 357 Maximum, my 2nd one . I’ve taken 2 deer with it and I am on the list for a Mihec 358-200 Grn RCBS copy with HP pins and I can’t wait to try those HP’s out . Congratulations on making meat .

[nagantguy]

I’m waiting for the same mold! Also have high hopes!

[marshall623]

Looks like great eating, fine shooting

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[redhawk0]

Snow on the ground does help tracking even if it is only 50 feet.

Makes for an easier drag too. I know it did for me in NH.

Congrats...its always nice to have meat in the freezer.

redhawk

[Silvercreek Farmer]

Nice! Might sound crazy, but I've never hunted in the snow. It rarely snows during our deer season, but next time it does, I'll have to get out. I bet the show up nicely in the woods as well.

[nagantguy]

Well you think that the snow; which we almost always have sometime during the firearm season would make the deer stand out but not so much; if it’s a wet snow and a cold night and it’s crunchy it can help you to hear them better but as their hair is hollow and a wonderful insulator the snow kinda doesn’t melt on them and just adds to their camouflage which is excellent as you know. Not saying the snow piles up on them; but in this stand; swamp and scrub brush and tall brown grass; when the grass and brush and autumn olive shrubs are snow dappled and about the color of a deer and the deer are sonowndappled and the color of a deer they can ghost right past you just like they can in the green forest, only better because a heavy snow driven by wind makes movement harder to spot; and a light snow when it’s not bitter cold sure makes the woods a quiet place.
So long and short they are hard to see; movement and noise are their tells; just as movement and noise on our part can blow a hunt fast.
All the time I spent stationed in NC I only remember snow on the ground that actually stayed one time, in MI we would have called it a heavy frost.

[xringshutr]

Great meat doe and great story with the 357 Max. Congrats...... ; )

That RCBS 35-200 is a honey of a boolit. I like the 359-190 Ranch Dog too.

Now go get another one...... LOL.

[koger]

Good job and great story, thanks for sharing.

[dverna]

Nice shooting and nice doe.