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Today was my final chance to put meat in the freezer.The wind has blown like crazy for the last several days and this morning was no different. I really didn't expect to see anything, but was determined to try.
For the last two hunts i had been using a doe bleat and young buck grunt occasionaly to try to bring something in range, but with no luck.
About 10:30 this morning i decided to try a different call and set my deer call for a mature buck on one end and a doe estrus grunt on the other end. I had never tried the estrus call before.
I gave a few doe grunts and a couple of minutes later the buck grunt. I decided i would give it to 11:30 and call it quits till next season.
I continued calling about every 15 minutes or so.
At 11:15 i heard deer running through the woods toward me and 2 does blasted by on a full run about 50 yds. to my left. Does were legal, but it was too thick for a running shot.
About a minute later i saw a young doe trotting slow along the same trail, but stopping to look behind her a bit.
I figured a buck was following and sure enough he came along at a steady walk following the does. As he passed by at about 50 yds. i caught him in the one spot i had a clear shot.
I tried to put the crosshairs behind the elbow pocket, but he was steady walking, making it difficult in the thick stuff and at the shot he ran about 50 yds. and piled up.
I wound up into the backside of his shoulder a bit on the on side and a bit more so on the offside.
This was the first deer with my new .308 Zastava mauser "Ol Ben" with a load of imr 4350 behind a 30xcb bullet @ 2447 fps.
I'll try to post some pics tonight or tommorrow night, gotta cut up and grind some meat for now.
There was a little bloodshot meat(about a 3" area on the entrance and less on the exit), but i doubt if it wasted a cup full even at that speed and short range...in fact it may clean up when i soak it in salt water a bit.
But...it did bloodshot all the bacon meat over the ribs all the way to the hindquarter on the onside, but not on the exit side...very strange. Once the bacon meat was removed, the ribs were fine.
Had about a golfball sized exit even though the bullet was ht'd to 27 bhn.
For the last two hunts i had been using a doe bleat and young buck grunt occasionaly to try to bring something in range, but with no luck.
About 10:30 this morning i decided to try a different call and set my deer call for a mature buck on one end and a doe estrus grunt on the other end. I had never tried the estrus call before.
I gave a few doe grunts and a couple of minutes later the buck grunt. I decided i would give it to 11:30 and call it quits till next season.
I continued calling about every 15 minutes or so.
At 11:15 i heard deer running through the woods toward me and 2 does blasted by on a full run about 50 yds. to my left. Does were legal, but it was too thick for a running shot.
About a minute later i saw a young doe trotting slow along the same trail, but stopping to look behind her a bit.
I figured a buck was following and sure enough he came along at a steady walk following the does. As he passed by at about 50 yds. i caught him in the one spot i had a clear shot.
I tried to put the crosshairs behind the elbow pocket, but he was steady walking, making it difficult in the thick stuff and at the shot he ran about 50 yds. and piled up.
I wound up into the backside of his shoulder a bit on the on side and a bit more so on the offside.
This was the first deer with my new .308 Zastava mauser "Ol Ben" with a load of imr 4350 behind a 30xcb bullet @ 2447 fps.
I'll try to post some pics tonight or tommorrow night, gotta cut up and grind some meat for now.
There was a little bloodshot meat(about a 3" area on the entrance and less on the exit), but i doubt if it wasted a cup full even at that speed and short range...in fact it may clean up when i soak it in salt water a bit.
But...it did bloodshot all the bacon meat over the ribs all the way to the hindquarter on the onside, but not on the exit side...very strange. Once the bacon meat was removed, the ribs were fine.
Had about a golfball sized exit even though the bullet was ht'd to 27 bhn.