Just out from a few days in the bush. In my state the legal hunting age is 12 and my youngest brother hit milestone about 6 months ago so we thought it was time to take him after some sambar and fallow. After four missed I decided to take a stalk (what you guys call still hunting I think) myself into the hills and leave young Duncan to hunt with the old man. About a km into the bush Ellie my gsp was starting to air scent heavily so I moved across towards where she was looking and was just feeling like I would see something when from within the bush came a big "HONK" from a sambar. It's hard to explain for those of you who've never chased sambar but suffice it to say its bloody loud! Anyway the two broke cover in opposite directions. Ellie went on hard point at one but I couldn't see it properly, the other (it's fawn) was also partly obscured but in a much better position. I sidestepped a couple of steps and there she was standing directly away from me at about 45yds. There was a couple of little shrubs in the way but I didn't think those little things would deflect the bullet, I waited a few more seconds and she didn't turn. I thought to myself "well it's time to see what these bullets can do!", I aimed in the middle of her orange rump and let fly with the old texas heart shot. I lost her immediately in the puff of smoke but tried a trick pointed out by a forum member here and ducked down just to see her bit the ground. And that was it she was dead on the spot! I still want to try them on a mature sambar but at the end of the day I said I wanted to shoot a sambar with my blackpowder and I got it done so can't complain! Going to be magnificent eating at any rate, mouths watering already!
Jack
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I prefer meat in its original packaging
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I prefer meat in its original packaging
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