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Finally got back from 2 weeks in Ohio and got settled enough to post some pics. This year I chose to hunt with my MK-95 .54 caliber rifle and my new lead .500 dia 336 grain Lead bullet in a purple MMP sabot. The Bullet is Pure lead. Same one WV Hunter recently tested in his "Box". The charge was 100 grnsV of BH209 and a CCI large Rifle Magnum Primer in my modified Brass 38 spl cases. unfortunately I was unable to recover any bullet. I really wanted too though.
Opening morning was 12/1 and in southeast Ohio it was sort of warm, about 40*, and rainy with plenty of wind. Sort of miserable. I started on another stand but left that side of the farm after the neighbor started driving a tractor to his stand and farting around making all kinds of noise, guess his quad was broke this year. Rain was getting heavier so I relocated to a shack (got 3 on the farm) on the north side of the farm next to our other neighbor, Mead Paper company. I was only in the shack for maybe 5 minutes and saw a doe trotting across the bottom on the other side of the fence. She looked like she might get whiplash because she kept looking back over her shoulder like she had the devil after her. Well not the devil but it was an nice 8 point buck and a little ratty horned smaller buck behind him. No shot since it was on the other side of the fence and too many tree tops to shoot though. So now I am thinking that since I had rain gear on, I might as well move to my little platform next to the fence line and sit in the rain since that looked like where the activity might be.
About 10 minutes after relocating again I took a nice large doe at 28 yards in almost a straight vertical shot. I have a little platform with a chair on it that sits on a very steep bank that is..well 28 yards tall. :wink: This over looks our creek bottom and the hill behind our farm that belongs to Mead Paper company. So the shot is sort of like sitting in a tree stand. The doe came up the bottom from my right at a trot but stopped just 2 hops from the fence line. She stopped and was sort of bent back in a U looking back behind her for whatever pushed her to me. I aimed to hit her at the base of the neck but due to the angle of the shot I could not use my sticks and was free hand. Either she moved a bit, or I wiggled and hit her right in the top of the right shoulder blade. At the shot she was floored! I swabbed (Yup I dry swab even though It is BH) and reloaded while looking to the right to see if this was the doe I saw the buck chasing, No buck though. Turned out to be a different doe.
When I looked back the doe was moving a bit and then started to kick her rear legs pretty violently so I did not want to get kicked and felt bad that the first one did not take her clean. So I finished her with a shot from same distance though the top of the head, should have taken that shot first. After field dressing I saw that the bullet hit the right shoulder blade (was basically shattered), then broke a rib and passed though the right lung. I though the bullet was in the hide but later found it was not. :huh?: The shot to the top of the head passed though leaving an exit in the palate a bit over 1" in diameter and the top of the head look like a wood maul split the skull open! :shock: Bullet went deep in the ground and I later could not figure out where it went in.
Next day was spent butchering and caping a nice 10 point buck for my cousins son in law. It was his first buck and he wanted a head mount done but did not know how to do it and asked me for help. My cousin was afraid he would mess it up. He did give me the meat though so the Freezer is stuffed now! Next day I went back to look though the gut pile for the bullet but the only thing that was left was the stomach! :shock: Guess a coyote for a little lead poisoning. :lol:
So anyway here is the doe.
Here is the shoulder blade. The meat was full of bone splinters. She had a lot of fat on her too.
This shows the broken rib where it entered. That white thing is the top of a corn bag and it is a little over 1 inch wide.
Here is the platform and some pics of the area from the platform. The last one shows the shack I started from that is up the hill.
Was vey disappointed that I did not recover a bullet and even went back with my nephews metal detector. I am not sure it was working right since I could not find the one that went into the ground.
Anyway the MK-95 .54 has now made meat. Saw the buck later that afternoon on that hill in the back ground at 260 yards alive and well still trying to lock his doe down, but that little buck was no where to be seen. Guess he got his marching orders. :lol: Saw 8 more does that afternoon but no shots. Slowed way down after that and got no other opportunities and did not see that buck again. Was a good trip overall. Hate that it is over. :cry:
Opening morning was 12/1 and in southeast Ohio it was sort of warm, about 40*, and rainy with plenty of wind. Sort of miserable. I started on another stand but left that side of the farm after the neighbor started driving a tractor to his stand and farting around making all kinds of noise, guess his quad was broke this year. Rain was getting heavier so I relocated to a shack (got 3 on the farm) on the north side of the farm next to our other neighbor, Mead Paper company. I was only in the shack for maybe 5 minutes and saw a doe trotting across the bottom on the other side of the fence. She looked like she might get whiplash because she kept looking back over her shoulder like she had the devil after her. Well not the devil but it was an nice 8 point buck and a little ratty horned smaller buck behind him. No shot since it was on the other side of the fence and too many tree tops to shoot though. So now I am thinking that since I had rain gear on, I might as well move to my little platform next to the fence line and sit in the rain since that looked like where the activity might be.
About 10 minutes after relocating again I took a nice large doe at 28 yards in almost a straight vertical shot. I have a little platform with a chair on it that sits on a very steep bank that is..well 28 yards tall. :wink: This over looks our creek bottom and the hill behind our farm that belongs to Mead Paper company. So the shot is sort of like sitting in a tree stand. The doe came up the bottom from my right at a trot but stopped just 2 hops from the fence line. She stopped and was sort of bent back in a U looking back behind her for whatever pushed her to me. I aimed to hit her at the base of the neck but due to the angle of the shot I could not use my sticks and was free hand. Either she moved a bit, or I wiggled and hit her right in the top of the right shoulder blade. At the shot she was floored! I swabbed (Yup I dry swab even though It is BH) and reloaded while looking to the right to see if this was the doe I saw the buck chasing, No buck though. Turned out to be a different doe.
When I looked back the doe was moving a bit and then started to kick her rear legs pretty violently so I did not want to get kicked and felt bad that the first one did not take her clean. So I finished her with a shot from same distance though the top of the head, should have taken that shot first. After field dressing I saw that the bullet hit the right shoulder blade (was basically shattered), then broke a rib and passed though the right lung. I though the bullet was in the hide but later found it was not. :huh?: The shot to the top of the head passed though leaving an exit in the palate a bit over 1" in diameter and the top of the head look like a wood maul split the skull open! :shock: Bullet went deep in the ground and I later could not figure out where it went in.
Next day was spent butchering and caping a nice 10 point buck for my cousins son in law. It was his first buck and he wanted a head mount done but did not know how to do it and asked me for help. My cousin was afraid he would mess it up. He did give me the meat though so the Freezer is stuffed now! Next day I went back to look though the gut pile for the bullet but the only thing that was left was the stomach! :shock: Guess a coyote for a little lead poisoning. :lol:
So anyway here is the doe.
Here is the shoulder blade. The meat was full of bone splinters. She had a lot of fat on her too.
This shows the broken rib where it entered. That white thing is the top of a corn bag and it is a little over 1 inch wide.
Here is the platform and some pics of the area from the platform. The last one shows the shack I started from that is up the hill.
Was vey disappointed that I did not recover a bullet and even went back with my nephews metal detector. I am not sure it was working right since I could not find the one that went into the ground.
Anyway the MK-95 .54 has now made meat. Saw the buck later that afternoon on that hill in the back ground at 260 yards alive and well still trying to lock his doe down, but that little buck was no where to be seen. Guess he got his marching orders. :lol: Saw 8 more does that afternoon but no shots. Slowed way down after that and got no other opportunities and did not see that buck again. Was a good trip overall. Hate that it is over. :cry: