Posted: 11/21/2007 5:34:39 PM EDT
his head down eating corn and I have the cross hairs right between the antlers. Click - misfire. He raises his head, turns it sideways and I put the cross hair right behind his ear, Click - misfire.  He takes off and stops between two trees and all I see is neck. Cross hairs on the neck and boom on the third trigger pull. Down his goes.  The bolt stop on my best rifle is broken, I'd dropped my bolt in the sand unloading the rifle. I cleaned it up as best I could but it obviously wasn't good enough. The bolt is coming apart tonight and the bolt stop is getting a new spring if I have to make one.  On top of that, my son chews my ass for shooting a small antlered buck that weighed 118 lbs. We've taken three small antlered bucks off of my place, no does since October. We have some bigger bucks running in there and I really don't want them killed. But it's OK if someone gets one. But I'm not taking one of those big racked stinking bucks. I do have some screwed up deer around my place. Two years ago my best bud John took an antlerless buck that weighed 90 lbs. He keeps telling me these small antlered bucks will have bigger horns if the nutrition was better. Hell, they have clover, turnips, and corn to munch on all year including us putting out mineral blocks. He doesn't seem to understand the term "management buck". 
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, maybe better to have called it an AD
| Sorry to hear that. I had a similar problem. Buck walks out in the open from teh sam place that I had shot a doe from opening morning and I go to cock the hammer on my H&R and it would not cock. Buck never got too concerned, just walked back into the woods. The only thing I could do was send a few choice words his way. |