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Savage ML2 with a Barnes 285 sabot dropped a large doe at 230 yards and she couldn't even make it to her side. collapsed straight down on her four legs like she was kneeling over a corn row. Lung shot behind the sholder and didn't even make a rustle in the snow. That's knocking them off there feet. big for a doe she had to be 3 to 5 years old . don't have a scale but this deer is loaded with corn fat and she as close to 150 as we get around here. was a real plus for this gun and bullet. smokeless load and scope but they are allowed here.

Wow!!! 230 yards is a LOOONNG shot. What did you steady the rifle on?

Congratulations

Doc

we have hunting shacks complete with heaters and windows and pillows. Even got a roll around chair to really get into positon. when the weather is 20 degrees and the wind is blowing it's the place I find I can still put in 3 or 4 hours watching for game in comfort. Just don't forget coffee and sandwhich.

I love my Savage I have a custom Pac Nor 45 cal Barrel I dropped one at 260 2 weeks ago and 2 does with head shots they dropped like yours did. Good shooting.

Nice shootin'.....

Have killed a pile of venison between 200 and 250 with my old 77/50 inline, but 250 is my cut off range.

New inline this year, KP1, 110 grains of FFg and a 240 XTP.

189 yards.......


My kid got this one at 150 this year, with my old rifle, and the same load....


'Course we do get close too.

Me at 25 yards....


Him, at 7.......

A "Hunting Shack" you say...more like a Hotel room. Do you have room service as well?

Doc

Wildswalker,

What do you do with all that venison? I know you and your boys and daughter kill a bunch of deer..

Doc

My brother got the bright idea to build a shooting stand on top of a wagon frame he had handy. we insulated it and have windows on three sides with a door on the end. little propane heater makes it comfortable in the windest and cooldest weather we have to hunt deer. I get kidded that when i want to still hunt i just have someone drive me around with a tractor. guntender

We eat it of course....

Added two boars to the pile this season, and have a tame hog ready for butchering here in a couple of weeks.

Prolly kill a couple more deer as well before season goes out on the 2nd, and have a neighbor getting ready to kill some lambs too.

We don't buy much meat from the store.......

The furthest shot for me was with my Encore, 250gr T/C Shock-Wave sabot, 150grs-3 pellets out to 224 yards. Took that doe right in the neck. DRT ! There was still 5 deer standing there while mine dropped. I used my range finder from the ridge I stood on for the shot to the hill where she lay. I don't think the deer had any clue where the shot came from or where I was. Not 15 minutes earlier that my step-son had shot a buck from 140 yards. I heard him shoot and was headed towards him when I saw the deer on the other ridge. What a double for the morning.

Ken