What Was your first deer shot with?

788 7mm-08. A nice little 4x4 whitetail. Last day of the season on a cutline I liked to sit on and watch for hours at a time, it was cold and dark because of cloud cover. Back then I didn't carry a watch, smartphones didn't exist and your "cell" phone was rather large and expensive, so I definitely didn't have one of those. I usually just started walking back to the farmhouse when the light started fading, as it was about a mile and a half walk. Well being the last day and still having an unfilled tag I waited until it was DARK. Well, another year of tag-soup I decided, and I had just started the motions of getting myself up from the rock I'd been sitting on for hours, when I heard the snow "crunch". I slowly relaxed my body back to the position it was in, and out he walked, about 50 yards in front of me.

Some things get burned in your memory, and that is one of them. Everything from the lack of sound in the air, to the cold-dry breeze (it was coming straight from the north), even the smell... :cheers:
 
Prairie Plinker said:
788 7mm-08. A nice little 4x4 whitetail. Last day of the season on a cutline I liked to sit on and watch for hours at a time, it was cold and dark because of cloud cover. Back then I didn't carry a watch, smartphones didn't exist and your "cell" phone was rather large and expensive, so I definitely didn't have one of those. I usually just started walking back to the farmhouse when the light started fading, as it was about a mile and a half walk. Well being the last day and still having an unfilled tag I waited until it was DARK. Well, another year of tag-soup I decided, and I had just started the motions of getting myself up from the rock I'd been sitting on for hours, when I heard the snow "crunch". I slowly relaxed my body back to the position it was in, and out he walked, about 50 yards in front of me.

Some things get burned in your memory, and that is one of them. Everything from the lack of sound in the air, to the cold-dry breeze (it was coming straight from the north), even the smell... :cheers:
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Awesome story!
 
Bow - 30 yards. Ontario White Tail Doe. Through the heart and lung. Her front legs gave out after dashing for about 15 yards and she was down for the count. She was tasty as tasty tastes, and she fed me well. **** also on the last day of season
 
Just off of highway #2 west of South Lancaster, ON, 1965,10 point Whitetail, 200+ lbs, one hit from an fmj .50 Meteor, center mass, died instantly.

(.50 Meteor should read 1950 Meteor)
 
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