In the ladder stand on the little flat oak ridge before first light, then at 7:15am I hear something coming slowly from over my right shoulder”¦when I was finally able to see some antlers I decided he was a shooter and I was going to take him”¦sat still as he came along, nose down in the leaves on a Doe track.
He passed in front of the stand going up & away at a 45* angle showing me his left side quartering away, head still down”¦and that put his neck vertebrae on a line with his rearmost rib.
When he got out about 35 yards into an open shooting lane I lined up the sights just behind his left rearmost rib, imagining a line to the vertebrae, and touched the set trigger. The 325grn ball plowed through the diaphragm / lungs into the neck vertebrae killing him instantly”¦dropped in his tracks.
I was surprised to find that his hocks were clean, dry, light brown”¦apparently he had not been involved with any scraping or visiting scrapes, etc.
Anyhow, the new .62cal smoothbore Virginia has proven itself”¦.so between the .58cal last week, and the .62cal this week, 2 Does & 2 Bucks have been delivered to that needy family in the country.
He passed in front of the stand going up & away at a 45* angle showing me his left side quartering away, head still down”¦and that put his neck vertebrae on a line with his rearmost rib.
When he got out about 35 yards into an open shooting lane I lined up the sights just behind his left rearmost rib, imagining a line to the vertebrae, and touched the set trigger. The 325grn ball plowed through the diaphragm / lungs into the neck vertebrae killing him instantly”¦dropped in his tracks.
I was surprised to find that his hocks were clean, dry, light brown”¦apparently he had not been involved with any scraping or visiting scrapes, etc.
Anyhow, the new .62cal smoothbore Virginia has proven itself”¦.so between the .58cal last week, and the .62cal this week, 2 Does & 2 Bucks have been delivered to that needy family in the country.
