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Used a Knight Disc Extreme .45 caliber to bring down a very good whitetail this morning.

Experienced a form of bullet failure as the 175 grain Barnes/Knight Red Hot that fragmented going through the front shoulder. After a coup de grace, he had no choice but to come home with me. He will score in the provincial book for typical muzzleloader. The outside spread is over 23 inches, for reference.



Yeah., I know ... a week of hunting whitetails hard, I look I like I've stared into the car headlights too long as well. Been a tough week with good deer down hunting solo.

WOW!

Ingwe

Nicely done!

Very nice deer sir. I am jealous. How much did it weigh?? Looks like a big bruiser!! Tom.

Very nice buck

Thanks guys!

The butcher estimated his live weight to be around 250-275 pounds.

To my calculations his rack should measure out around 150 inches. He's my best buck to date.

Congrats! Helluva nice buck.


maddog

Very nice! Congratulations on a real trophy!

Ed

Great buck with a fine smokepole.

Very nice indeed. Congrats!!!

Great buck. Will lokk great once you get him back from the taxidermy man.

Doc

Nice! That 2nd picture really shows just how wide that buck's rack is - very impressive!

Nice buck. Sounds like you had a good week of it.

Great buck, awesome pics! Congrats!

I don't know how you can call that "bullet failure". It blew his body right out of his hide.

Bwahahahha! Good one, Yukonal.

Very nice buck. I have a Knight .45 Caliber Muzzleloader I have used for a few years and it is a shooter. Great job on your deer.

grouser-

Good on you man! That's a grand deer!! Congrats.

Rolling hardwoods and light colored antlers - you SURE you were hunting in Ontario?

Thanks for all the kind words, gentlemen.

When I'm finished with a couple of papers for school, I'd be pleased to recount the whole story. It was an incredible week. I took a couple of good deer, hunting solo with my Knights.

I put the first shot into his right shoulder when he was turned to look at this back trail at 70 yards. I expected him to drop, right there, but he was already humming with adrenalin. This big boy wasn't going to just fall over and play dead just because someone put a hole in 'um. The buck was 250 yards away when I hunted him down, wobbly, but still on his feet. The next shot into the opposite shoulder at the base of the neck took the feet out from under him. I'm just pleased he didn't make it to the next county!

I'm going to have him scored when he gets back the taxidermist's in a few week's. He's going to come back as a European skull mount mounted at a 45 degree angle. Didn't want to look into a glassy pair of eyes for the next twenty years.



Skane,

It's a unique place. If 90 percent of the deer inhabit 10 percent of the land, then this is one of those core areas. I'm very fortunate to hunt this 100 acres. It encompasses a Carolinian forest that's over 60 years old, several planted pine plots where the deer bed, a hundred meter strip of shrub land that run the length of the property, perpendicular to a creek with a deep ravine of towering hardwoods, that runs almost a mile. That's the escape chute deer use when pressured to return to their sanctuary that runs down along the Grand River. That's where I ambushed him. Over the last decade, a truck load of deer have been taken off the property. And yes, it's definitely in southern Ontario.

I remember seeing some of your WI big racked bucks when last driving through your state. They seemed to be hanging in every outdoor shop we visited. Remember being green with envy. Very impressive!!!

well done!

With each pic he looks bigger. Congrats.