The hits keep on coming...
OregonEric
12/28/06 12:01am
I caught up with this ol fella a couple days ago. The weather has been quite strange this year, and instead of the white stuff, it was raining, and as it melted the snow away, lots of deer were out chowing down on the freshly uncovered forage.
It was early and I was glassing a big canyon, looking for something with horns, when right beneath me on an old skid row, I spotted a dark bodied deer trotting left to right. He was no more than 100 yards, but when I grabbed up my gun, he floored it, came right in front of me, and turned a little more downhill. He was cruising! I had my scope turned up, so getting him locked in took a second, but when I found him I instinctively led him by 20 inches or so. I didn't even think about it. I pulled trigger and followed through with my swing. He piled up like derailed freight train, stone dead. I guess he was a little over 200 yards and my buddy (not wong, but Shingo) said it was the best shot he's ever seen. I hit him through the lungs, but somehow it came out his back. I guess the bullet hit bone and took a turn. I let out a big ol American Woo Hoo! and Shingo thought it was cool and tried himself. Didn't quite sound right, but oh well. :) It was a lot of fun and ended up being a pretty nice stag as well. I have been having so much fun here that when I leave this island there might not be any deer left! :thumb
It was early and I was glassing a big canyon, looking for something with horns, when right beneath me on an old skid row, I spotted a dark bodied deer trotting left to right. He was no more than 100 yards, but when I grabbed up my gun, he floored it, came right in front of me, and turned a little more downhill. He was cruising! I had my scope turned up, so getting him locked in took a second, but when I found him I instinctively led him by 20 inches or so. I didn't even think about it. I pulled trigger and followed through with my swing. He piled up like derailed freight train, stone dead. I guess he was a little over 200 yards and my buddy (not wong, but Shingo) said it was the best shot he's ever seen. I hit him through the lungs, but somehow it came out his back. I guess the bullet hit bone and took a turn. I let out a big ol American Woo Hoo! and Shingo thought it was cool and tried himself. Didn't quite sound right, but oh well. :) It was a lot of fun and ended up being a pretty nice stag as well. I have been having so much fun here that when I leave this island there might not be any deer left! :thumb
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Nice shot also sounds like, at least I was sorta close on the name it had a "g" in it.
And I guess you proved me wrong about taking them 'out of the field' also, looks like you were getting a bit wet in the mountains.
I have a lot of pictures of these deer from fields, but I have only taken a couple that way. Just like deer back home, these buggers get skiddish, and rarely wonder far from the edges of a field. When they hear something, they're gone! It's pretty tough to get a good shot. I did nail a spike in a field during the rut a while back though.