If you read my 2 for 2 you know about the nice buck I saw that was hot on a doe. Well, I moved my stand to get a closer shot should I happen to see hin again in that same loacation. Yesterday I was in my climber watching the edge of the laurel thicket. The woods are very open and flat, about 50 yards wide and LONG. There is a laurel thicket on one side of the open hardwoods and a grown up old field on the other.
About 5:00 o'clock I turned and spotted a deer about 100 yards through the woods and about half way across, heading for the old grown up fields. By the time I got my Handi ready it had just walked through the hardwoods and I couldn't see it. I kept watching and about 10 minutes later I saw it through a small opening and it was headed back towards the hardwoods. I was waiting for it to come on into an opening when the wind changed, it must have smelled me because it took off running away from me. When it stopped, it had it's head and neck behind a large Oak, but I could see all of it's body.
At first I thought it was too far, but I turned the 1.5-4x Burris up to 4x and looked at the deer. I was very steady and told myself, you can make this shot. At first the crosshair was over the deers back, I slowly lowered until it was about 3/4 of the way up behind it's shoulder and the Handi sent the 385 Remington on it's way.
I saw the deer buckle and take off. I made a mental note of a stump and a couple off other things to mark the loacation of where the deer was standing when I shot.
When I got down out of my stand I started stepping it off, I'm 6'3" and make a very good yard with each step, after 140 steps I was standing at the blood spray from the 50 calibers impact and exit. I looked to my left and about 15 yards or less was my deer. It turned out to be a button buck, I thought it was a big doe but it was so far away and I didn't have time to do alot of examining.
The 385 grain bullet dropped perfectly right behind it's shoulder, the deer was slightly quarting away and the bullet broke the off side shoulder on it's exit. The bullet showed good terminal performance from what I saw while field dressing.
This was the longest shot I have ever made with any gun in the woods. There aren't many places in the woods were I can see 140 yards much less make a shot that far.
I am really liking my 500 Handi-Rifle, it is now 3 for 3!
Slufoot
PS, it was dark before I got back with this deer so I didn't get a picture, sorry.
