Killed another....

Roger Allen

Active Member
shot a deer now mind you not a big deer but I got good shots on this deer.

20 yards 45-70 405 gr Lyman 457193 I believe is it's code. Made from 50-50 ww/range scrap.

35.0 gr imr 4198 powder pushin round 1400-1500 fps

First shot went through shoulder the entry was size of thumb and exit was size of two thumbs

Second shot was done to mercy kill which went in one thumb sized out another thumb size.

Bone seems to insensify the bullet flattening affect you think? Duh!
 

Roger Allen

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First shot if you look went through middle shoulder broad side to me

Second shot deer was floppin around like a rollin truck going down a hill end over end. I caught it while on its side and popped it through the leg and it exited behind a shoulder opposite
 

Ian

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I would have thought the first one was mercy enough, it was dead right there, just it's nervous system hadn't figured that out yet.

Two soft whoppers through the boiler room at decent speed is way dead. Good shooting.
 

Roger Allen

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Yeah.....I prob could have gotten away w the one. After I shot seeing that deer hop bump around was killin my heart I did it bc it made me feel better lol
 

Chris

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Good shooting there, Roger. I never mind giving them a ground shot, it seems the decent thing to do.

Also, an apparently dead buck can deliver a kick to the shin that will darn near break it, ask me how I know. Also I know of a guy that rolled a buck over, stuck the knife in at the brisket... buck jumped up and the old man hung on and went for quite a ride.
 

Roger Allen

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I never grabbed a live deer. A bud of mine got the Obama knocked the heck out of him by one. He hit it w his car went to grab it and shove it in the back of his car and it came to life ground stomping him.

45-70 should take care of em like he said above one shot but I hate seeing these animals bounce around. But he was clown spraying I prob just added insult to injury but I'm glad I did it in a way. 2 well placed shots
 

fiver

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I have shot deer I watched drop and roll over a second time too.
especially after shooting one across a beaver pond and watching if flop and slide down to the bottom out of the trees.
I got about halfway around the pond and heard the wife hollerin so I scratched my way through the willows up to my knees in the mud and cold water just in time to see him run back into the pine trees.
after following the tracks for well over a mile and not finding any blood or the deer I circled back to where he was when I took the shot and checked the whole area.
I think what happened was I beaned him in the antler from holdin a bit too high with my BDC scope and knocked him out.
 

KHornet

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A number of years ago, I believe I "beaned one". Fairly steep down hill shot, and he went down like he was poleaxed. I took my time getting down to him, as he was around a little bend at the bottom. As I came around the bend there hew was just laying down, head up, and maybe 20 yds away. Jumped up, and was off like a rocket. Being cock sure that I had killed him clean as I went down the hill, I had not even put a new round in the chamber and he was out of sight before I realized what I had done. That was about one of the dumbest thing I had done in my life at least up to that point. I found a little tuft of short hair, that probably came off the top of his head. Bet he had a whale of a headache however.

Paul
 
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freebullet

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Glad to hear of your success, Roger.

I rode a deer down a tree/ snow covered canyon. Pulled my lower back out & the deer started sliding, I couldn't stop it so I jumped in the chest cavity & surfed down steering with her ears(it kinda worked). At the bottom my old man threw me a rope & used my suburban to drag us both up & out the woods. Good times!
 

Roger Allen

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Glad to hear of your success, Roger.

I rode a deer down a tree/ snow covered canyon. Pulled my lower back out & the deer started sliding, I couldn't stop it so I jumped in the chest cavity & surfed down steering with her ears(it kinda worked). At the bottom my old man threw me a rope & used my suburban to drag us both up & out the woods. Good times!

Haha surfing USA
 

John

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In the early 80's I was hunting S of Soda Springs Idaho [E of Niter Fiver] on a muzzleloader hunt. I pushed up a nice 4x4 mule deer and shot him going away doing crow hops at about 75 yards. He started wobbling like a punch drunk boxer while I put another load in. In the meantime he had lain down and his head would droop to the ground then slowly get raised only to drop again. I put one in his neck and he went down for good, I thought. I reached for my knife while grabbing him by the antlers to cut his throat and the antler came apart in my left hand. I was kneeling on a struggling buck, had the right antler by the left hand and finally got the knife out and cut his throat all the while trying to hold him down. I had broken the left horn 3" off the skull with my first shot. He was a big heavy bodied deer and the yellow-jackets were on him by the time I got him to the jeep. The next year the season was changed from late Sept to early November which made things tougher to access.
 

fiver

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it's amazing how easy they are to miss when they are spronking away.
i have shot over the top of them soo many times it ain't funny, I think that is a common miss.

we have half a rack here somewhere the wife shot off a buck one afternoon, she wanted to take the 45 colt lever gun and I wanted her to take the scoped rifle because she was going to sit on a point and a couple of us were going to loop up and around then work back down towards the open meadow she would be watching.
she finally seen the sense in that and headed down the trail, she made it all of 10 yards when a pretty good buck busted out of the bushes there and took off for town.
she threw up the rifle and took a poke at it and we could all see the antler chunks go flying up in the air.
it spun him around and he hit a tree sideways, then bounced off another one, before straightening out and putting on more speed until it got over the ridge a ways and got shot by a couple of other guy's up there hunting.
I wonder what they thought about that half horned buck.