Orchard6
11-27-2021, 04:42 PM
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I had 7 does come through this morning, the first 3 were on a dead run through the woods and offered no shot opportunities. Not 20 minutes later a group of 4 does came slinking in behind me and stopped behind a line of trees 30 yards to my left. They were out of sight long enough that I could unholster my hog leg without getting busted. They milled around for a few moments and then started to double back the way they came in. The lead doe was good sized and stopped some 25 yards away from the ladder stand I was in. I slowly raised my revolver while simultaneously cocking it. I settled the front sight on her left shoulder and pressed the loud switch. At the shot she jumped straight up and fell over upon landing. I could plainly see that the 173 grain semi wadcutter had broken her shoulder. She staggered and regained her footing and made a dash out into the orchard at the edge of the woods where I lost sight of her.
The blood trail was excellent with lots of both hair and blood at the point of impact and copious amounts of blood out of the woods and into the orchard. Once out in the orchard tracking becomes much easier as you can just look down the rows as you walk across. I had good blood and knew she couldn’t make it far so I started looking for a deer instead of blood. Sure enough about 60 yards down a row there she laid!
Upon inspection the bullet had indeed broken her left shoulder and exited just in front of her right shoulder and put a good size crease in her left lung, missing the heart and just tickled her right lung. She ran a total distance of a bit over 100 yards, had I realized she was quartering away that much I would’ve put the bullet a bit farther back and tried to break her offside shoulder but this placement did the trick.
I had 7 does come through this morning, the first 3 were on a dead run through the woods and offered no shot opportunities. Not 20 minutes later a group of 4 does came slinking in behind me and stopped behind a line of trees 30 yards to my left. They were out of sight long enough that I could unholster my hog leg without getting busted. They milled around for a few moments and then started to double back the way they came in. The lead doe was good sized and stopped some 25 yards away from the ladder stand I was in. I slowly raised my revolver while simultaneously cocking it. I settled the front sight on her left shoulder and pressed the loud switch. At the shot she jumped straight up and fell over upon landing. I could plainly see that the 173 grain semi wadcutter had broken her shoulder. She staggered and regained her footing and made a dash out into the orchard at the edge of the woods where I lost sight of her.
The blood trail was excellent with lots of both hair and blood at the point of impact and copious amounts of blood out of the woods and into the orchard. Once out in the orchard tracking becomes much easier as you can just look down the rows as you walk across. I had good blood and knew she couldn’t make it far so I started looking for a deer instead of blood. Sure enough about 60 yards down a row there she laid!
Upon inspection the bullet had indeed broken her left shoulder and exited just in front of her right shoulder and put a good size crease in her left lung, missing the heart and just tickled her right lung. She ran a total distance of a bit over 100 yards, had I realized she was quartering away that much I would’ve put the bullet a bit farther back and tried to break her offside shoulder but this placement did the trick.