One of the guys at deer camp shot at a deer close to dark last night. Range was 200 yards and he was using 130 gr factory in a .270....I know not cast.
It was snowing so should have been good for tracking if he hit it well. No hair or blood. He searched for about 30 minutes with no luck. I went out with him this morning to help. But we had got about 4” of snow last night so that was not going to help.
After over an hour we gave up. Deer could have been a few from us but nearly impossible to see anyway with the snow cover. Heading back I asked him if he had sighted in his rifle. He said yes...but not very convincingly. Then asked if he had dropped the gun and he said he had knocked the scope on the door getting into the blind.
After I left he checked the gun. Well the gun was shooting 8” high at 100 yards. He told me he had held over at the 200 yard shot and I told him if the gun had been sighted in to hit 2 1/2” high at 100 he would not need any hold over to make a 200 yard shot. Good news is it was likely a clean miss way over the animal. Bad news, it was the biggest 10 point he had ever seen...and did not connect.
He is going to Iowa to hunt next week and he will think he will have the scope dialed in before his big hunt. Bad news....if he was telling the truth, either his scope or mounts are the problem. I am seeing him later and will try to help....but some people are hard to help.
Hunters who harvest deer at short range can be successful with mediocre loads, in mediocre rifles with mediocre marksmanship skills. Too many “hunters” read about downing deer at 300+ yards and start to believe they can make long shots without doing a good job of sighting in, plenty of trigger time, and understanding trajectory tables. Hunters who aren’t....
BTW, my buddy shot a one shot group to determine his rifle is shooting 8” high....yep...ammo is darn expensive.
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Originally Posted by zarrinvz24
