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Yesterday morn I had planned to hit the woods even though it was going to be in the low 50’s & 80’s during the day. But I fell back asleep & woke up at 6:45. So I set up my Jim Shocky’s trigger sticks on the back porch & set my Accura next to the 3 glass doors. At 7:10 4 does came walk-in thru the front yard & into the west field which I let grow all year this yr. At 7:15 I see this black silhouette come from far off thru this small wooded patch on the north side of the property that a few does still bed & give birth. He stands at the fence grunting up a storm. Then he jumps the fence & starts chasing these 4 does and still grunting non stop. He paid me no mind when I opened the door & stuck the Accura out. 3 of the 4 does made a break for the fence he just came over & 1 headed for the south fence & the 300 acres of pine forest, he started heading for it but turned toward the fence running. I dropped him in his tracks just 10yds before the fence at 80yds quartering away. The 220gr .40 Dead Center bullet hit him just at the end of the rib cage & it stopped just barely into the right front shoulder. The bullet was under the hide. I have 2 other shooter bucks that made scrapes in the field in the last week & plenty of yearling scrub bucks & a 2.5yr old 6pt & a 3.5 yr old 8pt with nice long tines & plenty of does movin thru along with the ones still bedding next to the fence. There’s been 3 months of tree clearing on the 300 acres to the south where I normally hunt. I thought it would completely screw me for hunting this yr & my health has not been good to where I was concerned about makin it out to my stand locations at all this yr by myself. It sure looks like all that cutting has pushed a lot of deer this way bc I’ve seen more deer in general than I’ve seen in the last 2yrs & far more bucks than I’ve seen in a good while, just in the last 2 wks.
Normally 1 of these half size Florida deer fills one fishing cooler with room for ice, this big boy filled 2 coolers. I wish I could have weighed him.
It’s the biggest deer I’ve killed by far in Florida since I moved here. I normally do all neck or headshots so I’ve never recovered one of these Dead Center bullets until this one. I didn’t take any chances with this buck & put one in the body. As you can see in pic1 how far back I hit him, I could have led him a lil more.
Normally 1 of these half size Florida deer fills one fishing cooler with room for ice, this big boy filled 2 coolers. I wish I could have weighed him.
It’s the biggest deer I’ve killed by far in Florida since I moved here. I normally do all neck or headshots so I’ve never recovered one of these Dead Center bullets until this one. I didn’t take any chances with this buck & put one in the body. As you can see in pic1 how far back I hit him, I could have led him a lil more.
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