every once in awhile, youll hear about two guys shooting the same deer and at times arguing about who gets that deer.
I've seen the the opposite problem,(keep in mind if you hunt long enough youll see some rather rare or odd or un-expected, results
http://garage.grumpysperformance.com/index.php?threads/when-your-good-or-lucky.8708/#post-30675
about 40 years ago I was standing by my truck which at the time, was parked about a 1/4 mile from even a dirt road when a local game warden/wildlife officer truck pulled up next to us for a licence check, we were parked in a management area in an area,where we were allowed to hunt/camp.(on a raised berm between power lines)
I was kidding with the officer that I wanted to know where he kept the set of stilts with the deer hoof base they used to leave tracks because after several hunts in the area I had yet to see a single deer with horns.
as we leaned on the truck, and B.S.ed (talked) I looked up and we both saw a reasonably nice 4x4 white tail buck standing at the edge of a clearing staring at us from about 200 yards out across a low saw-grass/mudflat with lots of head high saw-grass.
the wildlife officer pointed out the deer at the same time we saw it, and said,
"theres your magic disappearing deer"|
well my partner doe's a quick double take and quickly .. asked the wild life officer if it was legal to shoot from where we were, to shoot the deer.....the wild life officer nodes and my partner dropped into a seated position using the truck bumper as an improvised partial, rifle rest, pumps a cartridge into his 760 Remington and fires a single shot,the deer jumps about 10 feet forward then drops and kicks a couple times. all of us walk over to see the buck, it took about 4 minutes to walk over to the buck, .... we get there and the wild life officers says, "DAMN THATS IMPRESSIVE! If I was not standing there watching it happen, I might have written you a ticket"
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we were all confused?
..the wildlife officer was not looking at the deer but into the saw-grass behind where the buck had been standing.....not more than about 10 yards past where the buck was hit was a stone dead doe with a profile of what looked like a sideways bullet, impact, just below her ear .....the bullet (a 220 grain peters soft point round nose from that 30/06) had exited the buck's shoulder and struck the doe below the ear , and none of us including the game warden had seen the doe until we had walked up to collect the buck.
we were lucky the daily possession limit at the time was two deer here in Florida. but does were not legal game, on that particular area on that day.
the wild life officer confiscated the doe and watched us dress the buck while he dressed out the doe.....he said it would be taken to a local food bank.....we were just glad we were not in any trouble and happy to get the buck!
now someones bound to ask why he was using peters 220 grain 30/06 ammo on deer and the reasons very simple , at the time where was a store called CMA consumer mart of AMERICA
it was a store like ZAYERS or some other stores like SEARS at the time where guns were available in the sporting goods department, that had sales at that time.that had a clearance sale and my friends and I purchased several cases of that 30/06 ammo at about 40 cents on the dollar prices
I've seen the the opposite problem,(keep in mind if you hunt long enough youll see some rather rare or odd or un-expected, results
http://garage.grumpysperformance.com/index.php?threads/when-your-good-or-lucky.8708/#post-30675
about 40 years ago I was standing by my truck which at the time, was parked about a 1/4 mile from even a dirt road when a local game warden/wildlife officer truck pulled up next to us for a licence check, we were parked in a management area in an area,where we were allowed to hunt/camp.(on a raised berm between power lines)
I was kidding with the officer that I wanted to know where he kept the set of stilts with the deer hoof base they used to leave tracks because after several hunts in the area I had yet to see a single deer with horns.
as we leaned on the truck, and B.S.ed (talked) I looked up and we both saw a reasonably nice 4x4 white tail buck standing at the edge of a clearing staring at us from about 200 yards out across a low saw-grass/mudflat with lots of head high saw-grass.
the wildlife officer pointed out the deer at the same time we saw it, and said,
"theres your magic disappearing deer"|
well my partner doe's a quick double take and quickly .. asked the wild life officer if it was legal to shoot from where we were, to shoot the deer.....the wild life officer nodes and my partner dropped into a seated position using the truck bumper as an improvised partial, rifle rest, pumps a cartridge into his 760 Remington and fires a single shot,the deer jumps about 10 feet forward then drops and kicks a couple times. all of us walk over to see the buck, it took about 4 minutes to walk over to the buck, .... we get there and the wild life officers says, "DAMN THATS IMPRESSIVE! If I was not standing there watching it happen, I might have written you a ticket"
.
.
we were all confused?
..the wildlife officer was not looking at the deer but into the saw-grass behind where the buck had been standing.....not more than about 10 yards past where the buck was hit was a stone dead doe with a profile of what looked like a sideways bullet, impact, just below her ear .....the bullet (a 220 grain peters soft point round nose from that 30/06) had exited the buck's shoulder and struck the doe below the ear , and none of us including the game warden had seen the doe until we had walked up to collect the buck.
we were lucky the daily possession limit at the time was two deer here in Florida. but does were not legal game, on that particular area on that day.
the wild life officer confiscated the doe and watched us dress the buck while he dressed out the doe.....he said it would be taken to a local food bank.....we were just glad we were not in any trouble and happy to get the buck!
now someones bound to ask why he was using peters 220 grain 30/06 ammo on deer and the reasons very simple , at the time where was a store called CMA consumer mart of AMERICA
it was a store like ZAYERS or some other stores like SEARS at the time where guns were available in the sporting goods department, that had sales at that time.that had a clearance sale and my friends and I purchased several cases of that 30/06 ammo at about 40 cents on the dollar prices
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