well it's a good thing I decided to make sure I was right on at 300 yesterday.
I got a nice 5x6 Muley this morning right at first light.
the shot ended up being a click over 400 yds, I was only about 3" to the left and about 2" low of where I aimed.
I really shouldn't have taken the shot.
400 yds is a bit out of my comfort zone, but they were heading right for the private property I had to walk around, they were relaxed and kept stopping and feeding,so I waited for a clean hit or miss broadside shot and took it.
it took me a bit to walk over and up to where he was and I missed where he had gone down by a good 75yds so I had to backtrack the other deer's foot prints in the frost to retrace back where they had been when I shot.
I was really starting to think I missed after about 20 minutes of looking and following their tracks, but could see where I shot from and knew I was in just about the right area.
I started working down to where I thought I seen him last when I shot, then I happened to see a little white patch and some antlers sticking up sideways down below me a bit, and it turned out to be his butt tucked up under some buck brush at the base of a cedar tree.
I knew I hit him good when he started doing the sideways backwards stumble and didn't take off with the other deer, but had lost sight of him when I worked the bolt to get a new round in the chamber and you never know until you either see them go down or filter out what the blood trail say's.
the thermo said 11 when I got out of the truck at the bottom of the canyon but it was tooth chatterin cold right before sunrise as I sat up on that mountain.
I knew it was going to warm up to the 40's today and wasn't interested in wearing some big old bulky coat I had to carry later in the day [but I was considering starting a fire for a minute there]