Calvin45
Well-Known Member
NOT!!!! 
Just messin with ya, but I am blessed to have filled my tag once again. This deer I've described as the Charlie Brown Christmas tree of bucks. He's not a spike, he's the next year older I think. But one of his antlers never even grew properly at all, looks like maybe it was injured while it was developing but anyways it's just like a bone nub on the one side.
I watched him for a while really tempted towards passing the opportunity before thinking better of it: it was beautiful for this time of year on Sunday when I took him, about -2 celcius or 35 Fahrenheit, and no snow yet. Fast forward to today, and we're the middle of a blizzard here, no fun for hunting, no ease in getting the deer out, and this last weekend was about my only time to go hunting this deer season (we only get from Nov 15 to Dec 2 this year). I believe I made the right choice, meat in the freezer!
On the exact same chunk of land where I got my elk this year, I was even in the same place along the tree line and when I pulled the trigger the deer was right about where the elk had been. It's a good spot! I'm keeping my lips sealed about where exactly it is
. Cousin took an elk in there this year as well, and it's the same section I got my buck last year.
At the shot I was leaned up against a poplar tree, he didn't know I was there and was casually sauntering towards the bush. Wanting him to stop moving I actually said "hey there" from the bush…AND HE DIDN'T NOTICE, didn't even skip a beat or pause. Off in la la land, this time of year he's got something on his mind….. So then I did my best attempt at a deer grunt/bark sound, it's a sound made while inhaling not exhaling in my case, and he stopped right now and looked straight at me.
About 330 yards give or take, 195 grain Sierra TMK, .300 win mag, but it could have been an fmj in a .223 and done the same thing : instant poleaxe so hard I actually heard the second thump from his body hitting the frozen ground from how instantly his legs stopped holding him up. Spine shot, hit a hair further back than I wanted to from my improv standing up against a tree "field rest" and did hit the very front of the backstrap which is not so great, but nonetheless a good shot in that I did hit the spine as I intended and he didn't feel a thing, instant off switch.
Feast your eyes on my trophy Sask whitetail
Just messin with ya, but I am blessed to have filled my tag once again. This deer I've described as the Charlie Brown Christmas tree of bucks. He's not a spike, he's the next year older I think. But one of his antlers never even grew properly at all, looks like maybe it was injured while it was developing but anyways it's just like a bone nub on the one side.
I watched him for a while really tempted towards passing the opportunity before thinking better of it: it was beautiful for this time of year on Sunday when I took him, about -2 celcius or 35 Fahrenheit, and no snow yet. Fast forward to today, and we're the middle of a blizzard here, no fun for hunting, no ease in getting the deer out, and this last weekend was about my only time to go hunting this deer season (we only get from Nov 15 to Dec 2 this year). I believe I made the right choice, meat in the freezer!
On the exact same chunk of land where I got my elk this year, I was even in the same place along the tree line and when I pulled the trigger the deer was right about where the elk had been. It's a good spot! I'm keeping my lips sealed about where exactly it is
. Cousin took an elk in there this year as well, and it's the same section I got my buck last year. At the shot I was leaned up against a poplar tree, he didn't know I was there and was casually sauntering towards the bush. Wanting him to stop moving I actually said "hey there" from the bush…AND HE DIDN'T NOTICE, didn't even skip a beat or pause. Off in la la land, this time of year he's got something on his mind….. So then I did my best attempt at a deer grunt/bark sound, it's a sound made while inhaling not exhaling in my case, and he stopped right now and looked straight at me.
About 330 yards give or take, 195 grain Sierra TMK, .300 win mag, but it could have been an fmj in a .223 and done the same thing : instant poleaxe so hard I actually heard the second thump from his body hitting the frozen ground from how instantly his legs stopped holding him up. Spine shot, hit a hair further back than I wanted to from my improv standing up against a tree "field rest" and did hit the very front of the backstrap which is not so great, but nonetheless a good shot in that I did hit the spine as I intended and he didn't feel a thing, instant off switch.
Feast your eyes on my trophy Sask whitetail
and a middle of the road load of imr enduron 4955, a powder I once claimed to hate! Hexagonal boron nitride treated 195 Sierra TMK, loaded to max magazine length, whatever that even is I haven't measured haha, the bore also treated with hbn. Chronoed around 2900 or so. 
