In the thread about killing pigs I mentioned how I shot a cow during last years deer hunt. Seems this generated some interest and a fuller explaination has been requested. I posted this on another site last year.
Well I'm halfway through deer season here and it has been quite memorable to say the least. We've been hunting 350 acres on a farm that is partially wooded. Last week my buddy Gary was sitting quietly in a blind near a soy field when suddenly he saw three beef cattle charging through the soy field. They were doing about mach 2 and just broke right through the fence row! . He called the farm with his cell phone to explain what he had seen and if any of their nieghbours had reported missing cattle. Well it seems that one of the owners of the farm we are hunting ordered the three to keep one of his barns warm this winter and just two hours after they were delivered they managed to break down a barrier and escape.
For a week now they have been trying to catch them without any success. They won't let anyone approche them and if you do they run fast.....problem is they seem to like running straight at the person close to them as Garys two cracked ribs attest too. Now folks are calling the farm to say that they almost had accidents on the road trying to avoid the cattle.......
So Saturday we were told that if we were to spot the cattle anywhere on the farm we were to shoot them and they would take the loss before the darn things caused any more damage or someone was hurt.
Well Sunday morning I was walking through a meadow nice and quiet when all of a sudden I heard a crashing rumble comming through the woods to my left. I could just make out through the woods one of the cows comming over a rise at a full trot. There was a small break in the trees about 100 yards ahead of it. I dropped to one knee, got the head in the crosshairs and followed it through the trees untill it came to the break.......bang! Well I knew I hit it because I saw the blood comming out of its mouth and snout but it just stood there staring at me. It was about 75 yards away and all I was thinking was finish it off before it covers the distance between us real fast. So shot no. 2 went off and it started to wobble and its knees started to buckle. When it went down it just lifted its head and I took the opportunity to shoot it in the neck. I was taking no chances that it would suffer or run as I was shooting my 243 with 100 gr. PSP's! All in all it only took less then a minute for it to expire but it felt like an hour.....
After gutting it in the woods....man that was a big gut pile....dragging it out with a quad, we got it to the meadow where we could get it into the bucket of a tractor and bring it to the farm for quartering.
Deffinately a story that will be told for quite a few years in the hunting camps.
Well I'm halfway through deer season here and it has been quite memorable to say the least. We've been hunting 350 acres on a farm that is partially wooded. Last week my buddy Gary was sitting quietly in a blind near a soy field when suddenly he saw three beef cattle charging through the soy field. They were doing about mach 2 and just broke right through the fence row! . He called the farm with his cell phone to explain what he had seen and if any of their nieghbours had reported missing cattle. Well it seems that one of the owners of the farm we are hunting ordered the three to keep one of his barns warm this winter and just two hours after they were delivered they managed to break down a barrier and escape.
For a week now they have been trying to catch them without any success. They won't let anyone approche them and if you do they run fast.....problem is they seem to like running straight at the person close to them as Garys two cracked ribs attest too. Now folks are calling the farm to say that they almost had accidents on the road trying to avoid the cattle.......
So Saturday we were told that if we were to spot the cattle anywhere on the farm we were to shoot them and they would take the loss before the darn things caused any more damage or someone was hurt.
Well Sunday morning I was walking through a meadow nice and quiet when all of a sudden I heard a crashing rumble comming through the woods to my left. I could just make out through the woods one of the cows comming over a rise at a full trot. There was a small break in the trees about 100 yards ahead of it. I dropped to one knee, got the head in the crosshairs and followed it through the trees untill it came to the break.......bang! Well I knew I hit it because I saw the blood comming out of its mouth and snout but it just stood there staring at me. It was about 75 yards away and all I was thinking was finish it off before it covers the distance between us real fast. So shot no. 2 went off and it started to wobble and its knees started to buckle. When it went down it just lifted its head and I took the opportunity to shoot it in the neck. I was taking no chances that it would suffer or run as I was shooting my 243 with 100 gr. PSP's! All in all it only took less then a minute for it to expire but it felt like an hour.....
After gutting it in the woods....man that was a big gut pile....dragging it out with a quad, we got it to the meadow where we could get it into the bucket of a tractor and bring it to the farm for quartering.
Deffinately a story that will be told for quite a few years in the hunting camps.
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