I finally filled my Iowa late season tag this morning. I decided that I was strictly stand hunting this year. It took a while, but two yearlings came in to the stand this morning, I shot both of them, one for me and one for the farmer who was sitting a couple hundred yards away. I took them with my TC Encore in .454 Casull, and it did a wonderful job. These are my first deer ever with a pistol! From this experience I have learned two things: One, a 320 gr. bullet with 27 gr. of H110 is WWWAAAAYYYY overkill for whitetails, I'm going with my 300 gr. Keith and 14 gr. of Unique next fall. Number two, I should have bought a 2x scope for my pistol instead of a 4x, it's almost two much, and they were only 40 yds. away, although it made shot placement a snap, both were shot through the heart. I shot the first, she made it about 15 yds, then the other one stood around wondering what had happened to her, I reloaded and shot the second one in the same place, she piled up about 15 yds away. The nice thing that I noticed after skinning them is that there is no blood-shot meat, I'll be able to eat right up to the hole, unlike the .308 and .30-06 that I've shot deer with before in South Dakota. If any one wonders how the .454 does on whitetails, I think it does great!
Selmer
