Unfortunately sometimes those 5 minutes are at the end of several days. :haha:
I checked the time tonight and had 5 minutes left in the season when I got a shot at a nice size doe. I was headed back to the Jeep when I saw a pair of ears poke up over a rise in the plowed field I was crossing. Then a whole head. No antlers so it was a legal deer for the Illinois Late-Winter Antlerless deer season. :thumbsup:
When she turned her head I dropped to one knee and brought the GPR to full cock. She came on over the rise straight toward me while another head popped into view behind her. I set the trigger and waited for a better shot angle.
Finally she turned and I put the sights right behind her shoulder and fired. She ran like a scalded cat all the way across the field and into the neighbors land leaving a misty blood trail.
After calling the neighbor to ask for trespass permission I had to walk back to the Jeep for a flashlight and to drop off my guns. (Had the pistol along too.) Then I walked back to go look for her. That's a lot of walkin' across a big plowed field in the snow for a guy with bad knees!
She hadn't made it very far after the property line. Just far enough to go thru an impenetrable briar patch, downhill, over a log mess, and fall off an embankment. Fun times draggin' her outta there! I am sore! :haha:
Lyman GPR, .530 round ball I cast myself from lead makeumsmoke sent me, .020 ox-yoke pre-lubed patch, 80 grains of 2F Goex, Rem #11 cap.
Shot was about 75 yards. Hit right behind the right front leg, exited the left side just far enough back to barely cut the stomach. She ran 75-100 yards.
I checked the time tonight and had 5 minutes left in the season when I got a shot at a nice size doe. I was headed back to the Jeep when I saw a pair of ears poke up over a rise in the plowed field I was crossing. Then a whole head. No antlers so it was a legal deer for the Illinois Late-Winter Antlerless deer season. :thumbsup:
When she turned her head I dropped to one knee and brought the GPR to full cock. She came on over the rise straight toward me while another head popped into view behind her. I set the trigger and waited for a better shot angle.
Finally she turned and I put the sights right behind her shoulder and fired. She ran like a scalded cat all the way across the field and into the neighbors land leaving a misty blood trail.
After calling the neighbor to ask for trespass permission I had to walk back to the Jeep for a flashlight and to drop off my guns. (Had the pistol along too.) Then I walked back to go look for her. That's a lot of walkin' across a big plowed field in the snow for a guy with bad knees!
She hadn't made it very far after the property line. Just far enough to go thru an impenetrable briar patch, downhill, over a log mess, and fall off an embankment. Fun times draggin' her outta there! I am sore! :haha:
Lyman GPR, .530 round ball I cast myself from lead makeumsmoke sent me, .020 ox-yoke pre-lubed patch, 80 grains of 2F Goex, Rem #11 cap.
Shot was about 75 yards. Hit right behind the right front leg, exited the left side just far enough back to barely cut the stomach. She ran 75-100 yards.
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