Dogleg Jr. starts deerhunting.

[Dogleg]

Dogleg Junior started his deer hunting career on Friday, using my Knight MK85/6X FX111 with 3 Pyrodex pellets and the250 grain Hornady SST. Three shots got him one WT doe, one MD doe and a coyote. Not a bad first day, but he's been practiceing for 9 years. Next step, bucks!

Shot distances were 60 and 75 on the deer, nearly 200 on the 'yote.

 

[Fox]

Nice shooting

 

[back40sniper]

Good to see hunting brings a smile to some family members.

 

[Dogleg]

Good to see hunting brings a smile to some family members.

He takes after his mother's side in that regard. My family was raised by wolves, we can manage a snarl, but that's about it.

 

[beretta boy]

Keeps ginning like that ... it's going to hurt his face.

Even an old Alpha Dog Wolf can manage a grin .... seen it !

 

[impala]

Good shooting.this is just a start to the adiction of deer hunting.I love the smiles in the pictures,I never understood why in so many hunting pictures people always look pissed off.I think in any picture I have from hunting I am smiling.if you don't find hunting fun why do it and if you arn't happy with your trophy why shoot it?just my opinion.

nice gun btw

 

[martinbns]

Next we'll be looking at pics of dogleg jr over a nice Kudu.

 

[Yoteboy]

Or another giraffe!

 

[nlevandier]

Nicely put!

 

[Dogleg]

Impala,
I've had good luck with that Knight, but will probably have to give it to my son now. He's picked my pocket for a Weatherby MarkV .257 and Leupold scope and 870 Remington already this summer, so is on a bit of a roll. It's mostly my own fault though, since I started him on rimfire when he was 3.

martinbns,
If Caleb can show me straight "A"s he can have a kudu as a graduation present. If he can't, he can try to get his own butt to Africa.

 

[scott_r]

Great to see a Dad take his son out Ive got few years before I can take my son out

Cheers!!

 

[Noel]

That kid is going to be trouble! Look out Dad.

Great job the both of you!

 

[MiG25]

right on.

 

[Dogleg]

Caleb has now moved onto centerfire in his hunting career, packing a Mark V Synthetic in .257 Weatherby with a Leupold 4.5-14 x 40 LR and handloaded 100 grain TSX bullets. The rig proved adequite for his 70 yard shot.

 

[PGKris]

Good goin buddy!! Looks like some damn good shooting.

 

[BigUglyMan]

Tuskless ele for the boy next summer?

That'll surely keep his grades up!

 

[Dogleg]

Tuskless ele for the boy next summer?

That'll surely keep his grades up!

We'll have to work our way up to that, but someday, who knows?

 

[Pickles]

I want that fridge in the background!

 

[Dogleg]

I want that fridge in the background!

I wondered how long it would take for someone to see that fridge! My buddy Dan won it in a bar draw. He's long since joined the "Sober for life crowd", a fact that we are all proud of him for.

 

[Dogleg]

Well, the hunt continues whenever we can get the boy out of school for a day. Today was just a quick evening thing, giving Caleb a shot at last light. He used his .257 Weatherby again with 100 grain Ballistic Tips this time.(Instead of the TSX) You wanna see a deer get deflated instantly try one one of these at 3700 fps. Reminds me of using soft bullets in my STW.
A weird thing about this deer, I had the guts out of this guy so fast that the heart was still beating. I've had hands inside a few hundred animals, and this was the first time I ever held a beating heart in my hands. We both held it in fact! This was like something you would expect in a second rate horror movie, though there was nothing scary about it. Quite the opposite in fact, it was more fasinating than anything. Makes me wonder if I gutted a live deer?
Anyway, here's the pic. Sorry about the darkness.