First Whitetail in 30 Years

[TJH]

This is the first Whitetail I have shot in 30 years. I normally hunt Mule deer but it looks like CWD may have severely impacted the Mulies where I hunt. 7 hours of hunting and saw 1 small fork and a doe with fawns. Normally would have seen 18 -25 each day. Saw about 20 Whitetail. Took this buck at 264 yds with a smokeless muzzle-loader I put together using a Savage short action and a .45cal brux barrel from Arrowhead. Load is IMR4198 pushing a 200 grain 40cal Hornady XTP bullet in a Harvester 45/40 ribbed sabot at 2555 fps. Complete pass through. Deer went about 10 yds and fell over.

 

[HC]

That’s a Dandy! I was wandering how those .40 cal xtps would preform.

 

[BuckDoeHunter]

Congrats! Nice Buck!

 

[TJH]

And they shoot less than 1MOA for me.

 

[MrTom]

Nice animal there. I see at least four broken/chipped tines and that grey face makes me think he's got some miles on him. What a score for you. Congrats!

 

[deermanok]

Real nice.

 

[edmehlig]

That’s one heck of a buck to be proud of. Way to go!!

 

[ENCORE50A]

Congratulations! Nice.

 

[Idaholewis]

NICE Buck! BIG Congrats on him!

 

[Bushfire]

Beautiful buck mate

 

[deerlessbob]

Looks to be worth waiting 30 years for!

 

[bmfox30]

Heck of a nice deer and shot. Congrats. Xtp's are a deadly bullet. My boy took his first deer last year using a .40 180 grain xtp outta my cva optima.

 

[doggzoe]

Congrats

 

[jims]

Nice whitetail

 

[Footindave]

Great buck congrats’ one of these days I’m going to go the smokeless route