Originally Posted by
koger
The wife I went hunting this evening, about 5pm with 45 minutes to hunt. I had saw several does out in fields last night, but I could not hunt there, we were back into our old honey hole, she could shoot 300yds in any direction, and I had 300-400 view. She got set up and I went around to the back of the spot and as I came around a point, there was 4 does out in the field, unconcerned. I had my 6.5x284 and got to stretch its legs. I sat on the 4 Wheeler and turned it off, tightened the sling up good and got calm, Put my left elbow on my left knee I had propped that foot up to get a good solid position.I figured she was about 370 or thereabout yds. I had turned my scope up to 7, put my first mild dot down from the cross hair a little above center and started applying pressure to the trigger, all the time weaving in a circle that looked like a eating plate. The shot surprised me when it broke, my hands were cold and the trigger felt lighter, but it jerked the rug out from under her, breaking both shoulders and taking a good sized chunk of lung out the exit hole. I was shooting a Sierra Gameking, 140 gr, at 3100fps, DRT. I have hunted this field my whole life, know the yardage from every spot on it, same field I killed the ML buck from earlier this year. This is one of the biggest does I have shot, easy 140# gutted. I will send pics to TBG to post. Just thought I would share.
