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CowboyCS
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Early M/L Whitetail
      #115173 - 23/09/08 01:21 AM

Today is opening day of early muzzleloader season here. So I got up not to early as I never see any deer on my place before 8:00am anyways. Got all my gear ready to go, had a cup of coffee with my wife, and then walked down to the trees on the north end of my property, about a 1/2 mile away. I climbed up into my stand and hung my shooting bag and rifle on their hooks and was just getting comfy when a Doe and two yearlings came up out of my field and into the trees. When they walked behind some brush and couldn't see me I grabbed my Double rifle off the hook and stood up. I watched them walk in and out of the trees until the big doe got in the clear about 40 yards away. She was mostly broadside and slightly quartering away from me, when I pulled the trigger on the right barrel. She folded up like a house of playing cards. The 500gr bullet entered a little high on her left shoulder and exited a little low and forward on her right shoulder. When I gutted her the bullet had decimated both lungs and broke both shoulder.

I slit her throat, filled out my tag and called back up to the house to have my wife bring the truck down. I finished dressing her out and got the pictures up by the front of my shop. It's nice to drop them close to the house were I can use the garden house to clean everything out and get them cooled down fast. I'm very happy with the performance of my double rifle, and their is nothing like the feeling of knowing you harvested a nice animal, with a firearm you built yourself. It has been a great morning.

C

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Re: Early M/L Whitetail [Re: CowboyCS]
      #115179 - 23/09/08 01:47 AM

Cool.
Steak and eggs for breakfast starts with some laying hens and a well placed shot.

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Re: Early M/L Whitetail [Re: szihn]
      #115186 - 23/09/08 02:29 AM

Heart sandwiches for lunch was what I was thinking.

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Re: Early M/L Whitetail [Re: CowboyCS]
      #115188 - 23/09/08 03:25 AM

Congratulations!


Great start of the season for you.
Enjoy your lunch!



--Tinker

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Re: Early M/L Whitetail [Re: tinker]
      #115189 - 23/09/08 03:33 AM

Great shot. I am getting ready for the early ML season here in KY. May start out with the crossbow. I cant wait for some fresh backstrap!

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Re: Early M/L Whitetail [Re: bigmaxx]
      #115209 - 23/09/08 11:33 AM

Thanks you guys,

Lunch was very good, I like fresh heart, sliced thin and fried it makes great sandwiches.

Colin

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Re: Early M/L Whitetail [Re: CowboyCS]
      #115268 - 23/09/08 09:45 PM

Well-done, Sir! Many happy returns of the day to you! Tell me, is that a Pedersoli double? What calibre is it?

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Re: Early M/L Whitetail [Re: Ben]
      #115284 - 23/09/08 10:42 PM

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Well-done, Sir! Many happy returns of the day to you! Tell me, is that a Pedersoli double? What calibre is it?


That is the 500 BPE that I built a few months ago. I posted pics here: 500 Black Powder You were the first to comment on it in that thread.

Colin

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Re: Early M/L Whitetail [Re: CowboyCS]
      #115463 - 25/09/08 08:13 AM

Nice doe, congrats on the great shot!

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Re: Early M/L Whitetail [Re: AspenHill]
      #115464 - 25/09/08 08:32 AM

Hey Cowboy, nice job!!

Now I gotta re-read that post!!

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Re: Early M/L Whitetail [Re: 9.3x57]
      #115467 - 25/09/08 09:20 AM

Thank you both, my boys and I got her cut up and put in the freezer today, except for the steaks I left out for dinner. I'll be going back out for another one this weekend hopefully.

Colin

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