I've been hunting with the Renegade during the WI regular gun deer season for three years now. I got a doe the first year, a miss the second year and now on the seventh day of the 2013 season this buck.
It has been kinda cold this year and I even skipped a few days of hunting cause I can't take it like I used to.
50 cal Thompson Center Renegade, 80 grains of FFF, a fiber wad, patched round ball (pre lubed patch touched up with some bear grease) FFF in the pan.
I had many layers of clothes on and gloves inside of mitts with a hand warmer in each one.
Deer came down the trail I was watching at 4 PM. I pulled the mitt off my hand with my teeth and cocked the rifle as the deer got closer. I saw it was a small buck and raised the rifle as it stopped 30 yards away. I had so many clothes on I couldn't get the gun raised up high enough to line up the sights. It seemed forever as I was trying to get the sights lined up and then on the deer, which was still standing there looking at me.
It was mostly facing my but slightly turned to its right. I took the shot and the deer stumbled a bit as it turned and ran full blast into the balsams and black spruce.
I found blood at the first jump and decided to follow the trail a little way to see how much of a blood trail was visible.
The deer had piled up just beyond where I had last seen it running.
I didn't want to walk out too early cause my son was hunting about 1/2 mile away but near where I would travel so I took my time dressing it out and dragging it to the nearest woods road.
The ball had entered in front of the left shoulder and stopped in the right front leg. Must have worked its way out cause I didn't find it.
Now comes the fun of cutting it up and getting it in the freezer.
It has been kinda cold this year and I even skipped a few days of hunting cause I can't take it like I used to.
50 cal Thompson Center Renegade, 80 grains of FFF, a fiber wad, patched round ball (pre lubed patch touched up with some bear grease) FFF in the pan.
I had many layers of clothes on and gloves inside of mitts with a hand warmer in each one.
Deer came down the trail I was watching at 4 PM. I pulled the mitt off my hand with my teeth and cocked the rifle as the deer got closer. I saw it was a small buck and raised the rifle as it stopped 30 yards away. I had so many clothes on I couldn't get the gun raised up high enough to line up the sights. It seemed forever as I was trying to get the sights lined up and then on the deer, which was still standing there looking at me.
It was mostly facing my but slightly turned to its right. I took the shot and the deer stumbled a bit as it turned and ran full blast into the balsams and black spruce.
I found blood at the first jump and decided to follow the trail a little way to see how much of a blood trail was visible.
The deer had piled up just beyond where I had last seen it running.
I didn't want to walk out too early cause my son was hunting about 1/2 mile away but near where I would travel so I took my time dressing it out and dragging it to the nearest woods road.
The ball had entered in front of the left shoulder and stopped in the right front leg. Must have worked its way out cause I didn't find it.
Now comes the fun of cutting it up and getting it in the freezer.
