The Shockwave and low recoil buckshot score again!
- Thread starter Brobee
- Start date
Very cool to see someone taking the time and effort to make a shot with a gun that would be a large handicap! Pleased to see you are aware of the limitations of the gun itself, as well as your own limitations, and are willing to work within them. You sir, have my respect!
- Location
- Saskatoon Saskatchewan
My sentiments exactly. Great patience to let them
Get that close. One question though, why is your head so far off the buttstock when shooting? Or is it just the picture that makes it look like that?
I was lucky enough to take the shockwave and the camera out for a bunch more awesome late-season antlerless deer.....wound up super-frustrated as I knew I had a "killer" spot, but was constantly one step behind the does and their fawns. I'd picked a heavily used travel route between their bedding area and where they've been feeding each night, but they would constantly come out just 10 yards too far away and make me before I could get the camera set up properly and make an ethical shot:
Particularly frustrating, but also exhilarating was that the couple of bucks in the area that would walk right-in-front of me. If I would have had a buck tag, I so would have dropped the hammer!
Then with the season drawing to an end and with some gentle encouragement from a local rancher,at last-light on what I figured would be my last hunting day I switched gears to make a frantic play on some open-country mule-deer who were raiding the rancher's stack yard. The rancher made me laugh...as we were looking across his hay field and he was describing the movement of the deer and how he figured I should approach, a mule-deer came out from her bed in the tall grass and jumped up onto the top of his bails. We both stared and he proclaimed with exasperation:"go get those giant rats out of my greenfeed!!!"
I made a hasty and somewhat careless/noisy approach to get around downwind from the deer and as I did this more and more deer emerged from their beds in the grass and crowded into the stackyard. By the time I'd worked downwind and ready for my final approach there was only about 10 minutes of legal light left and the deer became aware that something was not right. Consequently my setup was super-rushed and I was unable to get the camera properly levelled before the action all went down:
A mother with her two fawns were the only choice I really had, so I picked out a single fawn and fired. At the shot the deer all scattered, and I concentrated hard on just watching the one I shot. They all bounced into the hayfield and made for a big wooded ravine about 150 yards away, but fortunately my shot was decent and the fawn collapsed in the open field about 25 meters from the edge of the woods. I maneuvered to get the camera on her and waited/watched as long as I could still see so the fawn would hopefully bleed out in the field, not jumping up to make the ravine in one last dash. It was saddening when Mom and her sibling came back out of the woods and hung out right until I entered the field for recovery, but I was also happy I'd made a good kill and that my family would have enough venison to make the year.
All in all, I had a FANTASTIC season, saw tonnes of deer, and managed to do what I felt was a pretty good exploration of my mossberg shockwave with low-recoil 00 buckshot. I'll set to editing up my YouTube video chronicling the experience, and hope to share it within the next couple weeks.
Hope you all had a GREAT season too!
Cheers, happy holidays, and thanks for reading.
Brobee
Particularly frustrating, but also exhilarating was that the couple of bucks in the area that would walk right-in-front of me. If I would have had a buck tag, I so would have dropped the hammer!
Then with the season drawing to an end and with some gentle encouragement from a local rancher,at last-light on what I figured would be my last hunting day I switched gears to make a frantic play on some open-country mule-deer who were raiding the rancher's stack yard. The rancher made me laugh...as we were looking across his hay field and he was describing the movement of the deer and how he figured I should approach, a mule-deer came out from her bed in the tall grass and jumped up onto the top of his bails. We both stared and he proclaimed with exasperation:"go get those giant rats out of my greenfeed!!!"
I made a hasty and somewhat careless/noisy approach to get around downwind from the deer and as I did this more and more deer emerged from their beds in the grass and crowded into the stackyard. By the time I'd worked downwind and ready for my final approach there was only about 10 minutes of legal light left and the deer became aware that something was not right. Consequently my setup was super-rushed and I was unable to get the camera properly levelled before the action all went down:
A mother with her two fawns were the only choice I really had, so I picked out a single fawn and fired. At the shot the deer all scattered, and I concentrated hard on just watching the one I shot. They all bounced into the hayfield and made for a big wooded ravine about 150 yards away, but fortunately my shot was decent and the fawn collapsed in the open field about 25 meters from the edge of the woods. I maneuvered to get the camera on her and waited/watched as long as I could still see so the fawn would hopefully bleed out in the field, not jumping up to make the ravine in one last dash. It was saddening when Mom and her sibling came back out of the woods and hung out right until I entered the field for recovery, but I was also happy I'd made a good kill and that my family would have enough venison to make the year.
All in all, I had a FANTASTIC season, saw tonnes of deer, and managed to do what I felt was a pretty good exploration of my mossberg shockwave with low-recoil 00 buckshot. I'll set to editing up my YouTube video chronicling the experience, and hope to share it within the next couple weeks.
Hope you all had a GREAT season too!
Cheers, happy holidays, and thanks for reading.
Brobee
southwest maddog
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Narrow Ranch
Thanks for the photos. I have never been to Alberta.
