- Location
- Invermere, BC
I got my first deer almost two months ago now but didn't have the photo's - ex-girlfriend`s blah, blah....
I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to make it happen, with being in school and all, but I got a phone call from a buddy of mine wondering if I wanted to go out for a day with him and another mutual friend. So on short notice I was able to scramble and make it happen.
We got out to the area that they had been hunting earlier in the week and hiked in about an hour before legal shooting light. The two of us sat in some brush on the side of a logged bowl and glassed, our other buddy pushing brush towards us but nada - nothing. So we decided to hike in further away from the forestry road, hiked for about half an hour and saw lots of sign. We ended up on a little treed ridge, so we stopped and had a bite to eat, of course while sitting down two whitetail does silently go past us. We dropped in to the little gully they were following and followed them. We had only gone about 75 yards and there they were! As soon as they saw us they moved off, my friend had a "bleat in a box" and used it once and the one doe spun around and looked hard our way. I quickly dropped to one knee, she was quartering hard towards me and about 75 yards away through some trees but I did have a small shooting lane, so I found her in my scope and pulled the trigger. She went about 50 yards and then fell from the lung shot. I was using my Tikka T3 6.5x55, with a 125gr Partition.
I shot her through the meat of the shoulder, the bullet turning two ribs to chicklets, took out her lungs and continued on through to just underneath the hide, slightly in front of her rear hip. I recovered the base of the bullet there, I believe the front lead portion of the bullet ended up in her stomach as it must have come apart when it went through her ribs, not entirely sure though.
And no, the rifle is NOT pointed at me, it just looks that way.
I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to make it happen, with being in school and all, but I got a phone call from a buddy of mine wondering if I wanted to go out for a day with him and another mutual friend. So on short notice I was able to scramble and make it happen.
We got out to the area that they had been hunting earlier in the week and hiked in about an hour before legal shooting light. The two of us sat in some brush on the side of a logged bowl and glassed, our other buddy pushing brush towards us but nada - nothing. So we decided to hike in further away from the forestry road, hiked for about half an hour and saw lots of sign. We ended up on a little treed ridge, so we stopped and had a bite to eat, of course while sitting down two whitetail does silently go past us. We dropped in to the little gully they were following and followed them. We had only gone about 75 yards and there they were! As soon as they saw us they moved off, my friend had a "bleat in a box" and used it once and the one doe spun around and looked hard our way. I quickly dropped to one knee, she was quartering hard towards me and about 75 yards away through some trees but I did have a small shooting lane, so I found her in my scope and pulled the trigger. She went about 50 yards and then fell from the lung shot. I was using my Tikka T3 6.5x55, with a 125gr Partition.
I shot her through the meat of the shoulder, the bullet turning two ribs to chicklets, took out her lungs and continued on through to just underneath the hide, slightly in front of her rear hip. I recovered the base of the bullet there, I believe the front lead portion of the bullet ended up in her stomach as it must have come apart when it went through her ribs, not entirely sure though.
And no, the rifle is NOT pointed at me, it just looks that way.
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