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The smell of sulphur on a beautiful morning......

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The breeze was right...…...the turkeys were gobbling.........the air was warm...…..and it smelled of sulphur and venison...

 
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Haha !! The details...………….

Started as a very routine hunt. I plopped my butt up against a maple tree on my favorite point of my favorite ridge a bit before daylight. About 7:45 a wagon train of does and fawns, trailed by a smallish buck worked their way out the ridge, crossing in front of me at about 125 yards or so. They crossed from my right to my left and were behind some stuff, as well as on the skyline, so...….

Just as they were about disappearing out to my left, another batch of about 5 or 6 does and fawns came from the same direction only headed my way. I got the gun on the stick and pulled the hammer back when they came into the clear. I had glassed them and the lead deer was a long-nosed doe. I squeezed the set as she stepped out on an old woods road at about 40 yards. When she stopped, nearly broadside, I breathed on the front trigger and made a bunch of smoke. I just caught a glimpse of her and another deer as they went over the edge of the ridge. The lead deer's tail was down. The rear deer's tail was up.

I reloaded the gun and started looking for blood...……. There was none. Started down off the hilltop the way the pair had gone. A single deer took off out the hillside below me, tail high. I kept following the fresh dig marks and found a palmfull of white hair. No blood. Kept following the digs and finally found 3 decent drops of blood about 100 yards from where she stood. Walked a little farther and looked on out below me and there she laid.....stone dead. Fell off her feet. No thrash marks in the leaves.

The pic shows the shot placement. A whisker higher and farther forward than I usually put it. But still OK. The near shoulder was demolished. Her cavity was full of blood from front to back. If I count right...….she is the 9th deer I've taken with the same, identical combo. At 35-40 yards she was, by far the closest of the 9. This is the ONLY deer to not have 2 holes in it. The ball stopped in her. And, by FAR, she went the farthest of any of them. NEVER have I had one make any more than MAYBE 50 yards. She went squarely TRIPLE that !!! Very hard to figure.

The tools:

CVA Mountain Rifle in .50 cal
240 grain Hornady PA Conical
80 grains of Goex Fffg
 
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