I took my six year old daughter out this afternoon to look around on our deer lease. We decided not to hunt earlier, as it was warm and the wind was blowing about 20 mph. When we arrived , we hopped on the 4 wheeler and headed out to check the back bean field and see if there were any bucks chasing does. It was 4:35 pm when we arrived and only about 15 min. before sunset. We had only gone about 100 yds when we spotted this little buck in the middle field(about 50 yds from my stand), but we were out in the open and there was only a big metal wire tower between us and the deer. We parked the 4 wheeler and got off for a better look with the NF scope and the binos. I saw it was a small cull buck I had a trail cam pic of earlier, and had decided to take, if the opportunity arose.
I have since discovered that he weighed 125# and was 1.5 years old, but had almost no horn. He was plenty fat, so food isn't a problem, looks like he just got shorted in the genetics dept...
We set up the rifle and pulled out the laser to check the range. The Leica said 463 yards, and I guessed the quartering wind to be steady at about 15 mph. I spun in 9.5 moa of elevation and 2 moa of wind into the NXS and sent the 175 gr Sierra MK to find its mark. The buck folded in place at the shot. The SMK found the crease at the neck/shoulder junction on the quatering buck and exited thru the ribs behind the off side shoulder. About 4" of spine was destroyed and everything between the shoulders was mush. I was impressed that the bullet took a path that did not destroy a bit of edible meat. It would be nice to get that lucky every time.
Many thanks to Chris Matthews for the work on the LongShot Rifles .308... It has accounted for its share of kills in the last couple of years...
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