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I got back this weekend from my annual hunting vacation in SE Ohio. Got to spend 2 weeks home hunting and visiting with the folks and family. 8) 
Last year I got skunked, first in a long time. This year I connected on 2 doe using 2 different rifles, and the freezer is now full. 8) I like Horns too but consider myself more of a meat hunter, Freezer meat comes first before horn. :wink: Ohio's deer season had some crazy weather with lots of cold temp (21*- 28* most mornings, but that darned wind sure made it feel lower), wind, some rain and mixed with sleet or snow. No real accumulation but that wind had the deer not moving good. First Day I had 4 doe go past my Shack at a good trot, probably got bumped out of the neighbors property, and could not get them to stop close. They finally stopped on the opposite side of the bottom I was watching. One of them made the mistake of giving me a broadside, standing still, very slight quarter away shot at 183 yards. The Doe on the right in the pic below was the one that I took. The Rifle I used on it was a New Ruger American in 450 Bushmaster using handloaded 265 FTX bullets. The Shot blew up the right lung and the upper half of the heart the left lung got a bit of a hit and the bullet exited the opposite side never to be seen again. She only made about 4 good leaps and was done.
The Doe on the left was a smaller doe and I took her at 168 yards with my Knight KRB7. I have only hunted with this rifle one time and never connected with it. I did some work with this rifle earlier this year. I came up with my own designed Breech plug that was based on the mods Me and Hornet22Savage did several years ago. I took that a bit farther and added a ventliner, small powder recess and a different o-ring. My Cousin set it up and turned me out a few on his CNC machine using 17-4PH stainless steel. So far the plug is working perfect so I wanted to use it this year in the cold. Temp this day was 25* and the load was 84 grainsW/120gnV or BH209, under a Lehigh .452dia 265gn CF in an MMP HPH24 sabot and that was ignited by a Rem STS 209 Primer. Ignition was instant and primer was clean as could be. Shot was a tiny bit low but the Lehigh CF did its work. The Base punched all the way though and the pedals tore up both lungs and punched a hole in the heart. She dropped about 30 yards from the hit and was blowing blood from Nose and mouth, none of the bullet was found in any of the meat, I butcher my own so would have found them.
All in all a pretty good season and will be eating good till next season.
Last year I got skunked, first in a long time. This year I connected on 2 doe using 2 different rifles, and the freezer is now full. 8) I like Horns too but consider myself more of a meat hunter, Freezer meat comes first before horn. :wink: Ohio's deer season had some crazy weather with lots of cold temp (21*- 28* most mornings, but that darned wind sure made it feel lower), wind, some rain and mixed with sleet or snow. No real accumulation but that wind had the deer not moving good. First Day I had 4 doe go past my Shack at a good trot, probably got bumped out of the neighbors property, and could not get them to stop close. They finally stopped on the opposite side of the bottom I was watching. One of them made the mistake of giving me a broadside, standing still, very slight quarter away shot at 183 yards. The Doe on the right in the pic below was the one that I took. The Rifle I used on it was a New Ruger American in 450 Bushmaster using handloaded 265 FTX bullets. The Shot blew up the right lung and the upper half of the heart the left lung got a bit of a hit and the bullet exited the opposite side never to be seen again. She only made about 4 good leaps and was done.
The Doe on the left was a smaller doe and I took her at 168 yards with my Knight KRB7. I have only hunted with this rifle one time and never connected with it. I did some work with this rifle earlier this year. I came up with my own designed Breech plug that was based on the mods Me and Hornet22Savage did several years ago. I took that a bit farther and added a ventliner, small powder recess and a different o-ring. My Cousin set it up and turned me out a few on his CNC machine using 17-4PH stainless steel. So far the plug is working perfect so I wanted to use it this year in the cold. Temp this day was 25* and the load was 84 grainsW/120gnV or BH209, under a Lehigh .452dia 265gn CF in an MMP HPH24 sabot and that was ignited by a Rem STS 209 Primer. Ignition was instant and primer was clean as could be. Shot was a tiny bit low but the Lehigh CF did its work. The Base punched all the way though and the pedals tore up both lungs and punched a hole in the heart. She dropped about 30 yards from the hit and was blowing blood from Nose and mouth, none of the bullet was found in any of the meat, I butcher my own so would have found them.
All in all a pretty good season and will be eating good till next season.
I really like to make Chili from Venison since there is no fat to skim off! :yeah:
