Muzzleloader Doe

[Boreal]

I put down the bow and picked up the .50 cal Omega on Monday. Morning hunt was a bust. Nothing moving and temps around 10 degrees with a very light wind. I hunted a different stand in the afternoon. I had a line of 6 does followed by two spikes pass by me. The does were small and my trigger didn't get tripped. A while later I spotted a larger doe behind me. She was very cautious and took a while before she moved down off the bank towards the river. At the shot of about 60 yards, she charged towards the river with no indication of a hit. She stopped at the waters edge, was still for a second then fell over dead. The load was two 50 grain 777 pellets and a Hornady SST 300 gr bullet and sabot.

 

[HC]

Congrats on a good shot.

 

[deermanok]

Nice looking doe. Congrats.

 

[snapbang]

 

[BuckDoeHunter]

Congrats!

 

[MrTom]

That's a nice one. Congrats on your take there. Good eating size.

 

[jd24.5.48]

Nice one! Good shot!

 

[.45er]

I put down the bow and picked up the .50 cal Omega on Monday. Morning hunt was a bust. Nothing moving and temps around 10 degrees with a very light wind. I hunted a different stand in the afternoon. I had a line of 6 does followed by two spikes pass by me. The does were small and my trigger didn't get tripped. A while later I spotted a larger doe behind me. She was very cautious and took a while before she moved down off the bank towards the river. At the shot of about 60 yards, she charged towards the river with no indication of a hit. She stopped at the waters edge, was still for a second then fell over dead. The load was two 50 grain 777 pellets and a Hornady SST 300 gr bullet and sabot.

 

[Boreal]

Here's where the majority of the meat wound up. 94 venison bacon burgers!

 

[Hanshi]

You did very well and congratulations.

 

[356]

Congratulations on a great harvest.

 

[jd24.5.48]

Here's where the majority of the meat wound up. 94 venison bacon burgers!

Those look delicious! Love me some venison burgers!

 

[Hanshi]

I no longer hunt deer or any other game animal for that matter. The last deer I killed was with my 20 ga. smoothbore using a patched ball. That load is exceptionally accurate but the bare ball load isn't too far behind. The doe was only about 20 yards away but was running away from something. If I'd only waited another 15-20 seconds I'd have had a shot at a buck.