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Did the job
Took this buck off a doe coming into a power line opening the other day.

He came out of some pines and stopped to survey things.
I shot him through the ribs breaking the offside shoulder.
He then faced me and I put one through directly through his chest.
You can see the exit just before his haunch.

He shrugged those shots and ran a 150 yard horse shoe pattern through the brush before expiring.
He weighed 190 pounds hanging.
Surprising what they can soak up when in the rut.

A hardon will take a man places he wouldn't go with a machine gun.

Nice!

As will a fast twist
Thanks Scott.

Nice buck

Those horns look as if they have some good mass.

Great buck Frank congrats!

2 shots and he still covered 150 yards?
Perhaps a more suitable caliber next time?
That's a nice buck would have been a shame to lose him.

I did not get an exit twice with those bullets both into the near shoulder at under 50 years from a 5.56 rifle, back to 62 grain TSX for me. Regards caliber some folks with shoulder problems can hunt now where they could not hunt before with a 30-06 or similar.

Nice deer and congratulations.

Great deer. If one were to only get one of those pills in a buck like that and he covered 150-200 yards in the thick stuff I figure the blood coming out of a small entrance hole on a fat deer would leave a man hunting him again with a sick feeling in the pit of his stomach, especially if the fellow didnt know for sure exactly where he was hit.

Yea Like a 376 The .22-250 AI is a great deer cartridge, I shoot a 62gr TTSX from mine and it flat out pole axes deer

Thanks Dan.

FVA great storu and deer what kinda speeds u getting out of the 22-250AI?

Regarding the bullet/cartridge.
Hunting doesn't always consist of DRT's though I get my share of them.
Had a few with this combo.
Shot was up hill and the buck was on a steeper bank giving some funky angles.
Truth is the first shot was a little low and went through the lungs low and broke the offside leg.
The straight on shot could of been a bit higher as well but went through a bunch of goodies before exiting just before the rear haunch.
A more explosive bullet followed by higher placement with the first shot would of made for a shorter trail more so than a different caliber/cartridge,IMO.
Then again he was rutted and perhaps just a tough SOB.
Last year I put two 162 gr. Accu bonds,7mm WSM, 75 yards,through a bucks lungs/heart and he still went 80 yards.
Same situation as far with a doe and in fight mode, not reacting to the first hit which killed him, and running at the second.

Bit over 3300 fps./22" barrel

Congrats

150 yards in some locals and you're never going to find it.
Glad you were able to put another in him and that, no doubt, is the reason you got him.
I'll take big and slow over small and fast.
22's are deadly above the shoulder.

I shoot 3 or 4 deer a year for a long time now and generally get to see them go down.
Used/use everything from 500 gr. bullets in a muzzle loader,slugs,arrows, down to 45 gr. Barnes in 223 on the low end.

Plenty of places here where 150 yards is a eternity and this area nudging that way so I understand your concern with dropping them in short order.


One bullet remained in the offside breaking the leg.
Went between ribs rather than taking one out on entrance.
The other went through a lot of deer and exited.
These Scirocco's transfer energy well and usually a deer will just shudder and go down.

I think looking to big and slow for a fix in this case is heading in the wrong direction.
It would of took different/better placement.
This buck was also a stud actively chasing a doe, keeping lesser bucks at bay, and likely had plenty of adrenaline on board.

He showed up out of no where and likely was about to depart to same.
But it is what it is.

Though having to track makes you feel like you should of done your end better and anxious once in a while isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Helps keep you a bit sharp at it and teaches you bit about the way a deer thinks.

3 of my longest tracking jobs were with the 30/06 (2) and the 35 Whelen.

Wow! big ole mule faced buck. Congrats!

Awesome buck man.

Nice shootin'.



Travis