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<blockquote data-quote="AJ Peacock" data-source="post: 586744" data-attributes="member: 4885"><p>I'd say this was my luckiest shot.</p><p></p><p>I was hunting Mule deer / elk with my Dad in Colorado. I was probably 19-20 years old. We'd been walking a 2 track and came across 5 Texans having a smoke. We stopped to visit. They had doe tags, we only had buck tags. While we were visiting with 4 of them, the 5th kept looking at the hills above us with his bino's. After 5 minutes or so, the 5th guys said "Hey Theres Some Deer.". Sure enough, there were half dozen does walking up a steep hill about 550yds or so away from us. They were walking straight away from us, and the hill was so steep, we were looking right at their backs.</p><p></p><p>Since my dad and I only had buck tags, we stepped aside and watched the does continue walking up the hill undisturbed as 3 of the Texans emptied their bolt action rifles at them. Once they were empty and decided "They're too far away." Another deer came out of the brush from below and it happened to be a medium size 4x5 buck (ended up being something like 24" inside spread). The buck was following the does straight up the same trail. I asked them if any of them had a buck tag, they said something to the effect of "No, but he's too far away anyway." I looked over at my dad and he said "I'll spot for you." I sat down and took a solid rest on my knees (I wish I could get that solid now a days!). My 7mm Rem Mag was always sighted in 2 1/2" (the length of an empty 7mm Rem Mag cartridge) high at 100yds. I held my crosshairs even with the main beam split and touch off a round. A second or so later and the deer stumbled and stepped off the trail to the right and disappeared into the brush.</p><p></p><p>The Texans certainly had some fine "complimentary" words to say about the shot, I can tell you that. Anyway, when we got the deer home and skinned, I found out just how lucky the shot was. The bullet had NEVER ENTERED THE DEERS BODY!! It had sliced along a rib about half way back its body. It hadn't done anything more than burn a spot of hair off the hide. BUT, it did splinter the rib and a toothpick size sliver cut the heck out of the liver. He had bled out internally by the time we got up to him. (actually, he wasn't quite dead and need a 22lr between the eyes, he couldn't stand up).</p><p></p><p>So I shot a one shot kill on a fair muley at 550+ yards without drawing blood! And with an audience!</p><p></p><p>AJ</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AJ Peacock, post: 586744, member: 4885"] I'd say this was my luckiest shot. I was hunting Mule deer / elk with my Dad in Colorado. I was probably 19-20 years old. We'd been walking a 2 track and came across 5 Texans having a smoke. We stopped to visit. They had doe tags, we only had buck tags. While we were visiting with 4 of them, the 5th kept looking at the hills above us with his bino's. After 5 minutes or so, the 5th guys said "Hey Theres Some Deer.". Sure enough, there were half dozen does walking up a steep hill about 550yds or so away from us. They were walking straight away from us, and the hill was so steep, we were looking right at their backs. Since my dad and I only had buck tags, we stepped aside and watched the does continue walking up the hill undisturbed as 3 of the Texans emptied their bolt action rifles at them. Once they were empty and decided "They're too far away." Another deer came out of the brush from below and it happened to be a medium size 4x5 buck (ended up being something like 24" inside spread). The buck was following the does straight up the same trail. I asked them if any of them had a buck tag, they said something to the effect of "No, but he's too far away anyway." I looked over at my dad and he said "I'll spot for you." I sat down and took a solid rest on my knees (I wish I could get that solid now a days!). My 7mm Rem Mag was always sighted in 2 1/2" (the length of an empty 7mm Rem Mag cartridge) high at 100yds. I held my crosshairs even with the main beam split and touch off a round. A second or so later and the deer stumbled and stepped off the trail to the right and disappeared into the brush. The Texans certainly had some fine "complimentary" words to say about the shot, I can tell you that. Anyway, when we got the deer home and skinned, I found out just how lucky the shot was. The bullet had NEVER ENTERED THE DEERS BODY!! It had sliced along a rib about half way back its body. It hadn't done anything more than burn a spot of hair off the hide. BUT, it did splinter the rib and a toothpick size sliver cut the heck out of the liver. He had bled out internally by the time we got up to him. (actually, he wasn't quite dead and need a 22lr between the eyes, he couldn't stand up). So I shot a one shot kill on a fair muley at 550+ yards without drawing blood! And with an audience! AJ [/QUOTE]
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