Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters "In it's tracks......."

It's all about the blood trail. And penetration, especially on those raking shots in thick timber.

I'm sure you meant to write "dark timber."

Brad and smokepole;
Top of the morning to you both, I hope that this finds you and your respective families doing well as we approach Christmas.

I just wanted to say thanks to both for the smile this morning and wish you both all the best this season.

As far as adding to anything - I can't recall if our neighbor said this dropped in it's tracks or the Honda's.....


Now that I think about it, he likely shot it with a .308 though, but then that's no surprise to anyone who has been there/done that even a wee bit is it now?

All the best to you all this Christmas and the best of 2017 to you and yours.

Dwayne

Dwayne, that is an outstanding photo! Best to you and yours also, and Merry Christmas. I haven't seen any photos this year of your daughters on the hunt, did I miss them? I always enjoy those.

BC

I love that PIC ! and appreciate the humor.

Jerry

"Squirting" a premium pill. Liquid bullets?

And with two holes, "It still may be flying, as far as I know."

It's its, wherever it is.

Brad,

If Clay Harvey had written that, there would have been far more words, and probably more sentences, including several words with more than three syllables.

The word "antediluvian" would be required........

My Dad like to say 'cut the legs right from under him"

gerrygoat,

Yeah, ol' Clay really liked that word, along with a few others!

I AM Clay Harvey you malcontent miscreants!

I actually think that the phrase probably had its derivation in an earlier era of deer hunting, when people routinely tried to track deer through the woods. Thus, when shooting such a tracked-down deer for it to "drop in its tracks" meant more than it usually does today.

Hence, something more akin to "it dropped in the tracks that it had already made, and didn't make any more."

I always understood the term DRT to mean "Dead Right There"...but dunno if I should apply that DRT term to the mature Texas WTail w/ 9" spikes I killed 6-7 year ago with a 9.3x62 & Speer 270's and was "moved airborne" out of his tracks and landed about 25-30 feet away "Over There".

Hmmm D ROT aka Dead RightOverThere, doesn't sound too appealingly edible but is technically more accurate...whatever.

Christmas Greetings and Better Tomorrows Y'all
Ron

The impact of the bullet did not move the deer that far.

That's nothing. I know a guy who got a citation from fish & game, he was using a .416 'Bee and knocked one into the next GMU, which he didn't have a tag for.

The game warden didn't believe him, but I know it's true.

Did so. Whatta' you know anyway, you're always shooting those anemic .308's. Sheesh.

Now and then I've been seen with a 338 mag loaded with 250 Noslers.

or the "Proverbial" I've read Proverbs several times and saw no mention of..________!

Mike

Mebbe so, I guess he coulda jumped at the sound of the CZ's trigger breaking and caught a ride from the bullet but I did not see any evidence of a blood trail on the ground or around the impact point except for the 7'-8' x 7'-8' spray pattern on the fully leafed out live oak tree right behind him, and it was 10 or 12 long paces to the carcass from the tree trunk center of the blood spray pattern. I actually lost sight of him at the shot as he landed a few feet back up a game trail thru the waist high weeds from the edge of the emergent winter wheat food plot.

The neighbor I later sold the gun to hit a good sized hog with the same load at about 200+ yards just behind the knuckle at the base of his neck and rolled him downhill quite a distance. The phone pics were iffy on exact hard distances but the hog wasn't DRT where he got hit for sure, and big enough that they used a tractor with a front bucket to load him up.
Ron