10-25-17, Colorado Book Cliffs. Quartering away, 400 yd shot. Remington 700 .257 Weatherby Magnum, 100 gr TSX, 3700fps.....
Morning sit wasn't as busy as I'd hoped. Had a few does come through and two bucks. We decided to let this guy pass, would have been an iffy shot anyway.
Haven't you heard!!!
You can't kill a deer with a bullet that small!!!!!
My partner had spotted a nice shooter two evenings in a row coming out into a cut bean field with a doe. We planned on hitting that field yesterday afternoon but the rains that moved through Sunday flooded the creek and that field out so we had to change plans. Between the standing corn, the flooded creek and the NE wind we didn't have many options. We have a 2 acre island of trees in the middle of a corn field and decided to sneak in there to a stand set we put up last year. We weren't in the stand two minutes and we heard a buck making a rub. A few minutes later he came in through the thick stuff headed our way. Fortunately my partner was able to get him stopped in a small window and took the shot. The deer ducked a bit and the arrow hit high, he bolted back the way he came but I didn't hear him hit the corn. We gave him a half an hour and started slowly following the meager blood trail. When we found the arrow around 50 yards from where he'd shot him there was a nice chunk of lung on the ground near it, we found the buck another 30 yards down the trail. I'll get a pic up in a bit.