Post by ozark on Nov 24, 2008 6:53:02 GMT -5
My son came down from Springdale primarily to assist me during a couple days hunting but we also wanted a nice deer to have made up into Jerkey. The first day a spike buck came to the feeder but no takers were seen by either of us. Yesterday Mom joined us and while they hunted from my Sta-Cab I watched from another cabin. I seen birds only. They passed on a yearling doe that come to the feeder around 4 PM. At 4:30 He spotted two does moving in a thicket across a hollow 140 yards distance.
It was overcast and visibility was not good in the thicket and due to the late hour light was fading. It took him around ten minutes looking through his rifle scope before one of the two does offered him a small window to shoot through the brush. He could see the area where a heart/lung shot could possibly be made and fired. They were unable to see what action the deer took due to the limited visability. He visually marked the exact spot the deer was when he shot and leaving Mom at the cabin made his way across the hollow to that spot. He found blood galore and even a piece of lung splattered on a tree trunk. He followed the blood trail a short distance and found the deer stone dead. While field dressing the deer we discovered that a third of the heart was destroyed plus the lungs were mush. It was a big fat healthy doe that we are going to take it to a couple who does butchering and have them turn this one into Jerky. His shot was as good as any I have ever seen made under poor conditions. Maybe his years of military service and time in Special Forces had a bearing on this but I am going to say it is strictly a blood line feature. LOL Ozark BTW, He used his Remington BDL 700 in a 30-06 caliber with a 168 grain Federal Gold Boat tail hollowpoint bullet. It worked fine.
It was overcast and visibility was not good in the thicket and due to the late hour light was fading. It took him around ten minutes looking through his rifle scope before one of the two does offered him a small window to shoot through the brush. He could see the area where a heart/lung shot could possibly be made and fired. They were unable to see what action the deer took due to the limited visability. He visually marked the exact spot the deer was when he shot and leaving Mom at the cabin made his way across the hollow to that spot. He found blood galore and even a piece of lung splattered on a tree trunk. He followed the blood trail a short distance and found the deer stone dead. While field dressing the deer we discovered that a third of the heart was destroyed plus the lungs were mush. It was a big fat healthy doe that we are going to take it to a couple who does butchering and have them turn this one into Jerky. His shot was as good as any I have ever seen made under poor conditions. Maybe his years of military service and time in Special Forces had a bearing on this but I am going to say it is strictly a blood line feature. LOL Ozark BTW, He used his Remington BDL 700 in a 30-06 caliber with a 168 grain Federal Gold Boat tail hollowpoint bullet. It worked fine.
