Originally Posted By: mutthunterOriginally Posted By: Squeeze
Did that buck drop right there on the road, or was it drug there(if so, nice work!)? I ask because I hunt a farm for whiteys that usually allows me to back the pickup right up to the deer's last step... I'm not gonna lie, I love it! I've packed/drug critters up n down some stupidly steep, snowy, hills, and I'll do it as long as I'm able... but I really like hooking a pulz-all up to the headache rack on the truck, and letting mechanical advantage do it's thing!
No that buck was dropped off the truck, and posed there.
That is actually my front yard. In the case of this buck,
two marginal hits(deer bolted as I pulled trigger on
the first shot, and a 160 yard shot, at a severe angle down(I
was sitting in a elevated box blind on a steep hardwood
ridge, about 200' above the deer) had me shoot about 4" lower
than I should have on the shoulder. The 25-06 round destroyed
the front side shoulder, but exited a bit lower on the far
side than I would have liked. I had to do some fancy little
to no blood tracking through a dense cedar swamp to recover
him...But I had him running to a field. So we ended up with
about a 100 yard drag to the truck. Not bad considering
I would have had a tougher drag, if I would have dropped him
in the steep ravine. I expect the 25-06 to drop them in
their tracks, but in this case, what it did do was explode
on the last rib, and basically turn the back of the liver,
and the front of the stomach to corn pudding, and the
second shot destroyed a shoulder. What is surprising is
how far the buck went with the damage it had, with so little
blood loss. All of the blood was inside, and the deer ran
until it ran out of blood. Tough critters.
Squeeze