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<blockquote data-quote="BwanaObie" data-source="post: 2662334" data-attributes="member: 120835"><p>Shaking - not an uncommon situation for many veteran hunters, but some of the good news is that the gentleman is still up for another exciting season in the woods and plains after our noble North American wild game! Years ago one of my late neighbors - in his eighties at the time and deadly with his old 26" long barreled octagon 30-30 took a careful lead and bead on a huge whitetail buck streaking across a stubble field bound for the next patch of prairie bush. This elder hunter's grown son and I were "pushing bush" as it's known up here in the western provinces of Canuck Land, and just before the "jumper" reached the edge of the timber the bark of his Winchester rang out in the cold November morning. The son and I emerged somewhat out of breath running after we'd heard the brush cracking in front of us just in time to see old 'Bud' fire his careful and deliberate shot. I yelled over to my senior farm neighbor - "did you get em?" and was answered by a flash of his near toothless grin and "Yeap, neck shot"! The snow in the stubble was sprayed blood red with hair patches on the far side of the whitetail's sprinting tracks and 30 feet further on the big deer had hit a tree, then cartwheeled wildly before coming to a final rest with his nose and head buried in the foot deep snow. Sure enough, Bud's 170 grain Core Loc slug had drilled thru the whitetails thick neck just at the junction of the shoulder, severing the spine. Turning to us young'uns with the usual broad grin he declared "when you're an old buck like me - you gotta learn to shake at just the right time...!"</p><p></p><p>The finest shot I've ever known shooting just 'irons'!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BwanaObie, post: 2662334, member: 120835"] Shaking - not an uncommon situation for many veteran hunters, but some of the good news is that the gentleman is still up for another exciting season in the woods and plains after our noble North American wild game! Years ago one of my late neighbors - in his eighties at the time and deadly with his old 26" long barreled octagon 30-30 took a careful lead and bead on a huge whitetail buck streaking across a stubble field bound for the next patch of prairie bush. This elder hunter's grown son and I were "pushing bush" as it's known up here in the western provinces of Canuck Land, and just before the "jumper" reached the edge of the timber the bark of his Winchester rang out in the cold November morning. The son and I emerged somewhat out of breath running after we'd heard the brush cracking in front of us just in time to see old 'Bud' fire his careful and deliberate shot. I yelled over to my senior farm neighbor - "did you get em?" and was answered by a flash of his near toothless grin and "Yeap, neck shot"! The snow in the stubble was sprayed blood red with hair patches on the far side of the whitetail's sprinting tracks and 30 feet further on the big deer had hit a tree, then cartwheeled wildly before coming to a final rest with his nose and head buried in the foot deep snow. Sure enough, Bud's 170 grain Core Loc slug had drilled thru the whitetails thick neck just at the junction of the shoulder, severing the spine. Turning to us young'uns with the usual broad grin he declared "when you're an old buck like me - you gotta learn to shake at just the right time...!" The finest shot I've ever known shooting just 'irons'! [/QUOTE]
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