Posted: 1/9/2008 7:06:17 AM EDT
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A couple of friends and I went deer hunting this weekend. This was the last weekend for whitetail this season. We hunted Saturday morning and Saturday night but were not able to get anything. Sunday morning on the last leg of our daily trek I was able to shoot a 10 point buck; the first buck we saw the whole trip. We were quietly making our way through a wooded area when I spotted him. I took a knee, shouldered my rifle while simultaneously removing the safety, and sighted the deer in; he was staring right at me. I took a breath and the reticule moved up. As a released my breath the reticule moved down. At the final exhalation of my breath I squeezed the trigger. A half second and a deafening boom from a 30-06 later I watched the buck rise a little and collapse on his right side. When we came to him he was still alive and struggling, but there was no way he could get up. This is the entry wound: http://guns.ivorydome.us/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/entry.jpg Later when we took apart the deer we could examine the intensity of the wound. This was after we took the shoulder off and where the bullet passed through: http://guns.ivorydome.us/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/wound1.jpg This is the opposite side of the wound channel. We can see where the bullet passed through 5 ribs: http://guns.ivorydome.us/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/wound2.jpg This was the buck I shot. He is a 10 pointer but some of his tines are broken off: http://guns.ivorydome.us/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/pose11.jpg |
nice animal!
isnt it amazing how that works. the slowmotion details. the smells, the sensory overload. i remember walking up to it and my dad right behind me, telling me not to shoot it again and just to sit down and watch it die. |
