Lead melter
11-22-2008, 07:56 PM
My 11 year old son has been bugging me to let him hunt solo, so this morning I decided to see what matter of metal he is made of.
Modern gun season opened this morning in my area of NC, temp was right about 18 degrees. I put the boy in what we call the "corner stand" which is a 2 man tree stand in the corner of a fallow field on top of a hill. I sat at the bottom of the hill watching a small stream bed and escape route to a thicket.
6:55AM I heard the "boom" of his grandfather's old Marlin 336 in 30-30. Radio check says he might have hit the deer, but not sure. Says it was limping when it made the weed line. I inform him we better wait a while, as an injured deer pushed too soon can go a long way, but if left alone, it will lie down and die.
8:00AM I go get him out of the stand and start searching. Deer is down and dead about 50 yards from point of shot. Range was slightly over 100 yards {I know the range, I've hunted this area for over 10 years} with a load of 36 grains W748, Federal GM210M primer, and Remington Core-Lokt 150 grain slug. Rear of lungs and front of stomach shredded. Doe about 100-110 pounds. Sorry, no pics, I don't have a camera.
Best part of the day was that since he is now old enough to hunt solo, he is also old enough to skin and clean solo. Life's learning lessons where we can make them.
Let our sons grow up to be men, not politically correct citizens of a uniform world.
Modern gun season opened this morning in my area of NC, temp was right about 18 degrees. I put the boy in what we call the "corner stand" which is a 2 man tree stand in the corner of a fallow field on top of a hill. I sat at the bottom of the hill watching a small stream bed and escape route to a thicket.
6:55AM I heard the "boom" of his grandfather's old Marlin 336 in 30-30. Radio check says he might have hit the deer, but not sure. Says it was limping when it made the weed line. I inform him we better wait a while, as an injured deer pushed too soon can go a long way, but if left alone, it will lie down and die.
8:00AM I go get him out of the stand and start searching. Deer is down and dead about 50 yards from point of shot. Range was slightly over 100 yards {I know the range, I've hunted this area for over 10 years} with a load of 36 grains W748, Federal GM210M primer, and Remington Core-Lokt 150 grain slug. Rear of lungs and front of stomach shredded. Doe about 100-110 pounds. Sorry, no pics, I don't have a camera.
Best part of the day was that since he is now old enough to hunt solo, he is also old enough to skin and clean solo. Life's learning lessons where we can make them.
Let our sons grow up to be men, not politically correct citizens of a uniform world.