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Got this 4 pt and the little button buck 3 minutes apart this morning! The 129gr ABLR over 26.5gr of AR Comp is around 2340fps at the muzzle got the job done nicely.
When I made the 30yd walk from my car to my blind this morning, I saw that a stupid buck had recently made a scrape 10yds from my blind. dumbbuck.jpg I dumped some estrous in the scrape to see what would happen and sat in the blind, prepared to sit all day. I was in the blind at 545am, and had to sit until 615 for legal hunting time.
When it got lighter, around 720am, there was no action yet, so I took a pic from my blind of where the scrape was and posted it online. After I posted the pic, I looked up and the idiot deer was standing broadside to me, looking at the blind, 25 yds away! It was the same buck I saw last week on opening day that I didn't have a good shot on! I froze and slowly brought the gun around and got the safety off. I waited until he moved in line with a huge pine tree and got the rifle up and out one of the corner windows of the blind. As soon as the neck got past the tree, wham, neck shot at 17 yds, DRT. Sweet! Buck down! A couple minutes later, when I was on the phone home to have my Dad bring the truck down, I see a smaller deer come out from the swamp about 100 yds away. I hang up on my parents after saying, "hey, here comes another deer, I'll call back" and bring the rifle up again, but I was at 2.5x and couldn't see if there were antlers or not because he was in some trees. I zoomed in on it at 15x to see if there were antlers or not (In CT, I can take 1 Either Sex and 1 Antlerless) to see if I could shoot, but it took a bit to find him at that power. No antlers and he was looking in my direction and walking right towards where the buck was on the ground. I thought it was a small doe (no antlers) and figured if she was dumb enough to investigate the big Bang, she wouldn't make it through the winter. Neck shot #2, 67yds,wham DRT, bang flop. Called my parents back a minute after I hung up on them to tell them I got a second deer! My co workers have been pestering me for venison (haven't gotten a deer since 2015), so I figured the small, tender one would be nice and tasty for them.
Checked the deer, both neck shots were complete pass thrus. I dragged the 4 pt to where the other was and when I flipped her over, I saw the "doe" had some "doe nuts"! Checked the head again, no antlers, but the bumps of the antlers could be felt under the hide, so it was an antlerless deer. 2 bucks in 1 day; in past years, I have only gotten 1 deer each year and never 2 in a season and never 2 in a day, much less 3 minutes apart!
Got this 4 pt and the little button buck 3 minutes apart this morning! The 129gr ABLR over 26.5gr of AR Comp is around 2340fps at the muzzle got the job done nicely.
When I made the 30yd walk from my car to my blind this morning, I saw that a stupid buck had recently made a scrape 10yds from my blind. dumbbuck.jpg I dumped some estrous in the scrape to see what would happen and sat in the blind, prepared to sit all day. I was in the blind at 545am, and had to sit until 615 for legal hunting time.
When it got lighter, around 720am, there was no action yet, so I took a pic from my blind of where the scrape was and posted it online. After I posted the pic, I looked up and the idiot deer was standing broadside to me, looking at the blind, 25 yds away! It was the same buck I saw last week on opening day that I didn't have a good shot on! I froze and slowly brought the gun around and got the safety off. I waited until he moved in line with a huge pine tree and got the rifle up and out one of the corner windows of the blind. As soon as the neck got past the tree, wham, neck shot at 17 yds, DRT. Sweet! Buck down! A couple minutes later, when I was on the phone home to have my Dad bring the truck down, I see a smaller deer come out from the swamp about 100 yds away. I hang up on my parents after saying, "hey, here comes another deer, I'll call back" and bring the rifle up again, but I was at 2.5x and couldn't see if there were antlers or not because he was in some trees. I zoomed in on it at 15x to see if there were antlers or not (In CT, I can take 1 Either Sex and 1 Antlerless) to see if I could shoot, but it took a bit to find him at that power. No antlers and he was looking in my direction and walking right towards where the buck was on the ground. I thought it was a small doe (no antlers) and figured if she was dumb enough to investigate the big Bang, she wouldn't make it through the winter. Neck shot #2, 67yds,wham DRT, bang flop. Called my parents back a minute after I hung up on them to tell them I got a second deer! My co workers have been pestering me for venison (haven't gotten a deer since 2015), so I figured the small, tender one would be nice and tasty for them.
Checked the deer, both neck shots were complete pass thrus. I dragged the 4 pt to where the other was and when I flipped her over, I saw the "doe" had some "doe nuts"! Checked the head again, no antlers, but the bumps of the antlers could be felt under the hide, so it was an antlerless deer. 2 bucks in 1 day; in past years, I have only gotten 1 deer each year and never 2 in a season and never 2 in a day, much less 3 minutes apart!
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