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I had my cva accura mr-x out Thursday for its first ever hunt, I am sighted in and shooting x's at 100 yards, I don't shoot any further for hunting, with 2 60 gr t7 pellets and a 300 gr xtp, well, on its first hunt, I dropped a massive 8pt that dressed out at 213 lbs at 31 yards as he was chasing a doe towards me,to my left, I got him stopped and put the german lighted reticle on him and pulled the trigger, he stumbled 42 yards and dropped dead within 10 seconds.
I calmly reloaded in stand and finished my coffee and waited an hour before I got down, no ground shrinkage, a lot bigger deer that I thought. I had him on camera at a nearby scrape. I shot him in the hardwoods coming out of a recently cut corn field. ( I hate the fold up ram rod,Its a headache,imo...)
So we caped him out and got him to butchers on Thursday afternoon, I shot him about 654 am on Thursday morning, I didn't hunt Thursday afternoon, but I got out Friday morning and didn't see much, I have waited until the Friday afternoon of my vacation to hunt a stand I hung in 2015 on my own land, I shot a dandy 10 pt first time ever in stand with my compound, after I hung it in morning.
I have hunted it 7 times in 7 years, I let 2 other good bucks go the last few years, around 357 pm on Friday, I had 2 does come out to my left, I knew....5 minutes later, here came a big 8 pt, but I could not get a shot,they chased and went out other way,as I was looking to my left, I heard some commotion to my right, I turned, seen a doe trotting, she then looked back into the thick stuff and sure enough, out walked a giant 9 pt, I waited and waited for him to walk into full view and at 78 yards I put the german reticle and red dot on his front shoulder and neck area and pulled the trigger, after the smoke cleared.
I didn't see him, just the doe. I reloaded in the stand, and waited for what seemed like n hour but was probably 10 minutes, it was about 420 pm now, about 30 minutes before dark and I am at the back end of my land in the thick slash/swamp and our property borders a neighbours who owns 400 acres and its just a slash. I got down and didn't see him, but as I crept over the ridge, I watched him about 60 yards away walking slowly with tail flickering.
I made the hard decision to leave him overnight, afraid If I bumped him, he would never be seen again. It was -9 and only worry was coyotes, what a brutal night of beating myself up, well at 8am the next morning we set out to locate him, and sure enough he was about 70 yards from last spot I seen him , he had been dead since about 5pm night before,no yotes found him. 2 days,first two hunts with cva accura mr-x and two wall hangers. This was rifle season, I choose to use a muzzleloader, 2 weeks until our actual black powder season begins and I will be looking for a 3rd wall hanger, the 2nd one dressed out at 191 lbs. Back to work for a week this morning.
I calmly reloaded in stand and finished my coffee and waited an hour before I got down, no ground shrinkage, a lot bigger deer that I thought. I had him on camera at a nearby scrape. I shot him in the hardwoods coming out of a recently cut corn field. ( I hate the fold up ram rod,Its a headache,imo...)
So we caped him out and got him to butchers on Thursday afternoon, I shot him about 654 am on Thursday morning, I didn't hunt Thursday afternoon, but I got out Friday morning and didn't see much, I have waited until the Friday afternoon of my vacation to hunt a stand I hung in 2015 on my own land, I shot a dandy 10 pt first time ever in stand with my compound, after I hung it in morning.
I have hunted it 7 times in 7 years, I let 2 other good bucks go the last few years, around 357 pm on Friday, I had 2 does come out to my left, I knew....5 minutes later, here came a big 8 pt, but I could not get a shot,they chased and went out other way,as I was looking to my left, I heard some commotion to my right, I turned, seen a doe trotting, she then looked back into the thick stuff and sure enough, out walked a giant 9 pt, I waited and waited for him to walk into full view and at 78 yards I put the german reticle and red dot on his front shoulder and neck area and pulled the trigger, after the smoke cleared.
I didn't see him, just the doe. I reloaded in the stand, and waited for what seemed like n hour but was probably 10 minutes, it was about 420 pm now, about 30 minutes before dark and I am at the back end of my land in the thick slash/swamp and our property borders a neighbours who owns 400 acres and its just a slash. I got down and didn't see him, but as I crept over the ridge, I watched him about 60 yards away walking slowly with tail flickering.
I made the hard decision to leave him overnight, afraid If I bumped him, he would never be seen again. It was -9 and only worry was coyotes, what a brutal night of beating myself up, well at 8am the next morning we set out to locate him, and sure enough he was about 70 yards from last spot I seen him , he had been dead since about 5pm night before,no yotes found him. 2 days,first two hunts with cva accura mr-x and two wall hangers. This was rifle season, I choose to use a muzzleloader, 2 weeks until our actual black powder season begins and I will be looking for a 3rd wall hanger, the 2nd one dressed out at 191 lbs. Back to work for a week this morning.
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