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I couldn't make it out last Saturday for the opener so I took off work on Monday. Met a buddy at his house around 5:30 and drove to the spot. We went into this small woodlot to catch them coming in from the field.
I was set up at 6:00 and had to wait for an hour in the dark for shooting hours to start. I could hear deer moving thru the woods in the dark and saw 3 tails about 6:45 when it was just getting light.
Just as shooting hours started I see a deer walking thru about 50 yards away, I put the scope on it, it's a 4 point. just then another deer runs past that one in the other direction and that buck follows it. 5 minutes later they both come back but are about 80 or 90 yards away and walking pretty fast so I can't get a shot at the doe.
I turn to look in another direction and see a doe looking at me about 70 yards away. Problem is, she's facing directly at me. that's a shot I won't take, too much of a chance of wounding the deer or having to track it a long way. She moves away where I can't see her and then comes back 10 minutes later in the same spot, facing right at me. I have the scope on her for 3 minutes when she finally turns. I squeeze the trigger of my TC Omega and lose her in the smoke. I hear a crash to the left of where I shot but I don't know if that is my deer or if I spooked another one when I shot.
I sat there for a few minutes to let things settle down. I walk over to where the doe was when I shot, the ground is a little torn up but no hair or blood. I decide to walk over to where I heard the crash. About 80 yards from where I shot, there it was, dead. I check the bullet placement and it was right where I was aiming.
The thing that disturbed me was that the exit wound was the same size as the entry wound. I am using 245 grain power belts with the plastic tips. They shoot very well at the range.
I am thinking of changing to some kind of hollow point like TC shockwave sabots. Anyone have any good suggestions on what has worked for them?
Maybe I am just being picky since the deer didn't go very far, but this has happened before. Several years ago I shot a doe and lost it in the smoke. I found it about 100 yards away with no blood trail and the same small exit wound.
Oh yeah, I am using two 50 grain triple 7 pellets.
I was set up at 6:00 and had to wait for an hour in the dark for shooting hours to start. I could hear deer moving thru the woods in the dark and saw 3 tails about 6:45 when it was just getting light.
Just as shooting hours started I see a deer walking thru about 50 yards away, I put the scope on it, it's a 4 point. just then another deer runs past that one in the other direction and that buck follows it. 5 minutes later they both come back but are about 80 or 90 yards away and walking pretty fast so I can't get a shot at the doe.
I turn to look in another direction and see a doe looking at me about 70 yards away. Problem is, she's facing directly at me. that's a shot I won't take, too much of a chance of wounding the deer or having to track it a long way. She moves away where I can't see her and then comes back 10 minutes later in the same spot, facing right at me. I have the scope on her for 3 minutes when she finally turns. I squeeze the trigger of my TC Omega and lose her in the smoke. I hear a crash to the left of where I shot but I don't know if that is my deer or if I spooked another one when I shot.
I sat there for a few minutes to let things settle down. I walk over to where the doe was when I shot, the ground is a little torn up but no hair or blood. I decide to walk over to where I heard the crash. About 80 yards from where I shot, there it was, dead. I check the bullet placement and it was right where I was aiming.
The thing that disturbed me was that the exit wound was the same size as the entry wound. I am using 245 grain power belts with the plastic tips. They shoot very well at the range.
I am thinking of changing to some kind of hollow point like TC shockwave sabots. Anyone have any good suggestions on what has worked for them?
Maybe I am just being picky since the deer didn't go very far, but this has happened before. Several years ago I shot a doe and lost it in the smoke. I found it about 100 yards away with no blood trail and the same small exit wound.
Oh yeah, I am using two 50 grain triple 7 pellets.
