Okay - I bagged a 8 pt whitetail today - Was sitting in my tree stand - just a fork of a big live oak that I have spikes to climb up - anyway a nice doe comes by and although I tried I could not get a clear shot - she walked off and was followed about 5 minutes later by a decent buck - I lined up on him and when my sights touched his shoulder I fired - deer flinched and turned 90 degrees (I was sure I hit him good because - when I fired he had a great avenue of escape without having to turn - after he turned he trotted (not running) back under my tree hide (if I had a swivel breech) I could have shot him again - he was a good buck 8 or 9 pt - turned down a deer trail (about 45 degree turn) - and I was certain as I was reloading I would find him just down the trail - I waited and reloaded - called my GF that I had a buck down - she came up to help me find the buck - we looked and spooked another 10 deer or so between us - we went in different directions - about 30 minutes later - I spooked a deer that was not moving fast - he went into an area nearby
I was moving in that general direction and could see Denise - buck moved and I shot (quick snap shot) and buck ran about 15 yds and piled up (GF saw the whole thing) she said he was still up - I reloaded and joined her and fired again - deer lurched and laid down - didn't move while it expired.
The wounds on the deer are as follows ham shot traversing forward (running deer quartering from me) through the body clipping lung - and through and through neck shot.
Here is what I think happened - deer I fired at (not certain but felt it was a bigger deer) from tree was hit -
Here is what doesn't compute - if it was the same deer I bagged there should be 3 bullet holes - there were only two - through and through in neck (Denise thinks this was the 2nd shot I fired at the deer near both of us) and the ham through body shot - bullet fully flattened and found between meat and hide on opposite side -
if it is the same deer I had to miss completely on the first shot - or it had to be a through and through neck shot - and that deer looked and acted hit - but we found no blood and lost trail - deer I killed was within 40-60 yds of where I shot at the first deer - because the other wound would be consistant with a deer quartering away from me and we know that was the one I bagged because GF had a view of it the entire time - and would have had to miss my coup de grace shot at 15 yds - which GF said I didn't because she saw the deer react and drop it's head on that shot.
What do you think same deer or different deer? :idunno:
I was moving in that general direction and could see Denise - buck moved and I shot (quick snap shot) and buck ran about 15 yds and piled up (GF saw the whole thing) she said he was still up - I reloaded and joined her and fired again - deer lurched and laid down - didn't move while it expired.
The wounds on the deer are as follows ham shot traversing forward (running deer quartering from me) through the body clipping lung - and through and through neck shot.
Here is what I think happened - deer I fired at (not certain but felt it was a bigger deer) from tree was hit -
Here is what doesn't compute - if it was the same deer I bagged there should be 3 bullet holes - there were only two - through and through in neck (Denise thinks this was the 2nd shot I fired at the deer near both of us) and the ham through body shot - bullet fully flattened and found between meat and hide on opposite side -
if it is the same deer I had to miss completely on the first shot - or it had to be a through and through neck shot - and that deer looked and acted hit - but we found no blood and lost trail - deer I killed was within 40-60 yds of where I shot at the first deer - because the other wound would be consistant with a deer quartering away from me and we know that was the one I bagged because GF had a view of it the entire time - and would have had to miss my coup de grace shot at 15 yds - which GF said I didn't because she saw the deer react and drop it's head on that shot.
What do you think same deer or different deer? :idunno:
