Well Saturday was the opener for Firearms Deer season here in MO,
hunted saw several deer, but no shots, just staid a bit out of comfortable range.
Sun dawned beutiful and relatively cool, was on stand about 6:00 Am, shooting time was at 6:19.
Hear the first shot of the day at 6:21.
About 7:30 heard a crunch up wind and on my left, peering through the trees and brush, what to my eyes
should appear but a deer! Buck? Doe? Really could not tell, did not matter Any Deer Permit in my pocket.
Finally steps into an opening (about 30 yards out, facing head on), it is a Buck. Walks right down a trail
behind me, gets broadside and slightlty to me left, if he kkeps going will be downwind soon. Up comes the .45
Hawken with the 60grn 3F Goex and PRB, Boom, smoke cloud, can't see a thing, crash bank crunch, deer is
running like crazy, when the smoke clears I see the backside disappear around a bend in the trail and
thickening of the brush. Darn, I am sure I hit him. Reload, never know, climb down, go to where he was when
I shot, no blood, no hair, nothing. Confused, can not believe I could possibly have missed at the range!
Circled around through the brush for an hour, no sign at all! About to give, sit down under a tree, look at
sites, replay the shot over and over and over. Finally go back and start over in the search, still no sign.
Decide to go back to the house and have lunch and form a plan for the eveining. On the way I passed to the
left of the tree I had rested under and about 5 feet behind where I had been sitting, 'ello, a blood blotch!
Ah ha, I did not miss. Start looking, no other blood to be found! Begin walking in half circles back and forth
finally about 50 yards, across the creek and up the next hill, their he lays. A 7 Point Ozark White Tail,
one .45 PRB that hit just in front of the shoulder. He had traveled as the crow flys about 100-120 yards from
where shot. However, he did not run in a straight line so it was about 250 total yards and left only the one
blood spot about 12 inches in diameter.
We will be having vension this winter.
Waya
hunted saw several deer, but no shots, just staid a bit out of comfortable range.
Sun dawned beutiful and relatively cool, was on stand about 6:00 Am, shooting time was at 6:19.
Hear the first shot of the day at 6:21.
About 7:30 heard a crunch up wind and on my left, peering through the trees and brush, what to my eyes
should appear but a deer! Buck? Doe? Really could not tell, did not matter Any Deer Permit in my pocket.
Finally steps into an opening (about 30 yards out, facing head on), it is a Buck. Walks right down a trail
behind me, gets broadside and slightlty to me left, if he kkeps going will be downwind soon. Up comes the .45
Hawken with the 60grn 3F Goex and PRB, Boom, smoke cloud, can't see a thing, crash bank crunch, deer is
running like crazy, when the smoke clears I see the backside disappear around a bend in the trail and
thickening of the brush. Darn, I am sure I hit him. Reload, never know, climb down, go to where he was when
I shot, no blood, no hair, nothing. Confused, can not believe I could possibly have missed at the range!
Circled around through the brush for an hour, no sign at all! About to give, sit down under a tree, look at
sites, replay the shot over and over and over. Finally go back and start over in the search, still no sign.
Decide to go back to the house and have lunch and form a plan for the eveining. On the way I passed to the
left of the tree I had rested under and about 5 feet behind where I had been sitting, 'ello, a blood blotch!
Ah ha, I did not miss. Start looking, no other blood to be found! Begin walking in half circles back and forth
finally about 50 yards, across the creek and up the next hill, their he lays. A 7 Point Ozark White Tail,
one .45 PRB that hit just in front of the shoulder. He had traveled as the crow flys about 100-120 yards from
where shot. However, he did not run in a straight line so it was about 250 total yards and left only the one
blood spot about 12 inches in diameter.
We will be having vension this winter.
Waya
