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How was your 2007 handgun season?
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 184016" data-attributes="member: 10178"><div style="text-align: left">I killed 9 deer this year. 7 doe (unlimited doe permits where I hunt) and 2 buck. I only killed one doe at 104 yards with my T/C Contender with a 10 inch 357 Mag. barrel 2-8X28 Weaver scope. The load was 180 gr Hornady XTP over 13.5 grs. H-110, WW case, CCI mag primer. This was the first deer I have shot with this rig. I was amazed at the outcome. I was hunting in a box stand on a log road between two grown up cut-overs and as far as I could see a deer up this road was 107 yards before it took a bend in the road. The deer came out into the road right at that bend, latter I ranged it to be 104 yards. I had my rig zeroed at 100 yards and the deer was quartering slightly toward me. I placed the cross hair on the center of its shoulder and squeezed one off and over the recoil I saw the deer squat down and back and with it's head almost on the ground jump into the cut-over on the other side of the road. I then heard it crash and kick a couple of times. I found her about 50 yards from where I shot her. When I dressed her out I found that the bullet had hit exactly where I had aimed and went through the chest taking out the lungs and on into the gut and I found the bullet under the hide just at the beginning of the off side back hip. It was a text book mushroom. </div> <div style="text-align: left">I also killed a fox with this rig on the opening day. I was hunting in the afore mentioned stand. I can see 107 yards to my right and 120 yards to my left in this stand. I keep my Contender perched on a sand bag pointing up the road to my right and have a rifle on a 2X6 rail pointing down the road to the left. You have to be able to shoot quick from this stand because the deer are just crossing the road between the two cut-over areas. I had not been in the stand 15 minutes the opening day afternoon when a big doe started to cross the road to my left at 110 yard. I dropped her in her tracks in the middle of the road with my 25-06 rifle. There was a little dip in the road and some weeds about 2 feet high in the middle of the road and I could not see the deer on the ground. You can take two deer a day where I hunt so I just stayed in the stand. About 10 minutes later I look up to my right and here comes this fox down the road. Now I knew what would happen if he continued down the road and found my deer laying there. He would start eating it. I had this happen a few years ago on a deer that I shot and left lay about an hour before it got dark. A fox or bobcat ate half a ham off it. When the fox got to my stand I dropped an old 35mm film bottle that I had used as a sent bomb last year out of the stand trying to hit him and may be scare him away. It dropped right in front of him and he jumped back and looked at it and then tried to bite it and it squirted out of his mouth. He looked at it kind of moving his head back and forth and then he turned and went into the cut-over. Not 3 minutes latter here comes another fox down the road from the same direction the other one came from. When it got to about 50 yards I already had my Contender in hand and cross hairs on it's head. I made a sound with my mouth and it stopped. I placed the cross hair at the bottom of its left eye and squeezed the trigger and put a bullet right through it's eye and killed it on the spot. I reload the Contender and looked down the road to my left and there standing up on top of my deer is the first fox. I took my 25-06 rifle and picked him right off my deer. It was a wild day.</div> <div style="text-align: left"></div></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 184016, member: 10178"] [LEFT]I killed 9 deer this year. 7 doe (unlimited doe permits where I hunt) and 2 buck. I only killed one doe at 104 yards with my T/C Contender with a 10 inch 357 Mag. barrel 2-8X28 Weaver scope. The load was 180 gr Hornady XTP over 13.5 grs. H-110, WW case, CCI mag primer. This was the first deer I have shot with this rig. I was amazed at the outcome. I was hunting in a box stand on a log road between two grown up cut-overs and as far as I could see a deer up this road was 107 yards before it took a bend in the road. The deer came out into the road right at that bend, latter I ranged it to be 104 yards. I had my rig zeroed at 100 yards and the deer was quartering slightly toward me. I placed the cross hair on the center of its shoulder and squeezed one off and over the recoil I saw the deer squat down and back and with it's head almost on the ground jump into the cut-over on the other side of the road. I then heard it crash and kick a couple of times. I found her about 50 yards from where I shot her. When I dressed her out I found that the bullet had hit exactly where I had aimed and went through the chest taking out the lungs and on into the gut and I found the bullet under the hide just at the beginning of the off side back hip. It was a text book mushroom. I also killed a fox with this rig on the opening day. I was hunting in the afore mentioned stand. I can see 107 yards to my right and 120 yards to my left in this stand. I keep my Contender perched on a sand bag pointing up the road to my right and have a rifle on a 2X6 rail pointing down the road to the left. You have to be able to shoot quick from this stand because the deer are just crossing the road between the two cut-over areas. I had not been in the stand 15 minutes the opening day afternoon when a big doe started to cross the road to my left at 110 yard. I dropped her in her tracks in the middle of the road with my 25-06 rifle. There was a little dip in the road and some weeds about 2 feet high in the middle of the road and I could not see the deer on the ground. You can take two deer a day where I hunt so I just stayed in the stand. About 10 minutes later I look up to my right and here comes this fox down the road. Now I knew what would happen if he continued down the road and found my deer laying there. He would start eating it. I had this happen a few years ago on a deer that I shot and left lay about an hour before it got dark. A fox or bobcat ate half a ham off it. When the fox got to my stand I dropped an old 35mm film bottle that I had used as a sent bomb last year out of the stand trying to hit him and may be scare him away. It dropped right in front of him and he jumped back and looked at it and then tried to bite it and it squirted out of his mouth. He looked at it kind of moving his head back and forth and then he turned and went into the cut-over. Not 3 minutes latter here comes another fox down the road from the same direction the other one came from. When it got to about 50 yards I already had my Contender in hand and cross hairs on it's head. I made a sound with my mouth and it stopped. I placed the cross hair at the bottom of its left eye and squeezed the trigger and put a bullet right through it's eye and killed it on the spot. I reload the Contender and looked down the road to my left and there standing up on top of my deer is the first fox. I took my 25-06 rifle and picked him right off my deer. It was a wild day. [/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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