Orchard6
11-18-2021, 10:08 PM
I was trying to slip out to the woods through one of my orchards and had only made it some 40 yards down the row when on a small rise in the orchard I noticed 4 does bedded down about 50 yards away. It was snowing off and on and at the moment it was quite intense. As I pulled up the gun to look through the scope my movement caught their attention but not enough to alarm them. We had a bit of a stare down as I picked out what looked to be the largest of them who also happened to be facing directly at me. I put the crosshairs right where the neck and chest meet and let the 300 blackout do it’s thing! With a dull sodden PLUNK the bullet connected with the doe and in a flash all 4 got up and took off straight away.
I started tracking pretty quickly as the snow was really coming down and I know the bullet doesn’t leave much if any blood trails so I needed to get on the tracks before the snow covered them and any possible blood trails. I walked over to where they were bedded and started following tracks and had only gone some 50 yards when I bumped them. They weren’t to alarmed as I had the wind and snow in my favor, but they knew something was there and weren’t sure what I was. I watched them for a minute or so but between the snow and them moving I couldn’t tell how many were there, they finally became uneasy enough that they ran for the wood lot at the end of the orchard. As I was crossing rows in the orchard to get to where I last saw the group I looked down one of the rows and found my deer laying about half way between me and where I last saw the group. It almost looks like she bedded back down and just went to sleep!
The 200 grain Lee C309-200r went in right where I aimed, hit the front lobe of the left lung and put about an inch long gash in the heart before going through the paunch. There was very little blood externally but she has massive hemorrhaging in her chest cavity. All in all I’m very pleased with this combination of boolit and AR pistol.
I started tracking pretty quickly as the snow was really coming down and I know the bullet doesn’t leave much if any blood trails so I needed to get on the tracks before the snow covered them and any possible blood trails. I walked over to where they were bedded and started following tracks and had only gone some 50 yards when I bumped them. They weren’t to alarmed as I had the wind and snow in my favor, but they knew something was there and weren’t sure what I was. I watched them for a minute or so but between the snow and them moving I couldn’t tell how many were there, they finally became uneasy enough that they ran for the wood lot at the end of the orchard. As I was crossing rows in the orchard to get to where I last saw the group I looked down one of the rows and found my deer laying about half way between me and where I last saw the group. It almost looks like she bedded back down and just went to sleep!
The 200 grain Lee C309-200r went in right where I aimed, hit the front lobe of the left lung and put about an inch long gash in the heart before going through the paunch. There was very little blood externally but she has massive hemorrhaging in her chest cavity. All in all I’m very pleased with this combination of boolit and AR pistol.