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Posted 04 May 2005 20:24 Hide Post
I have a short story to share

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have a short story to share about a deer that I thought was an unkillable deer.I was with my buddy hunting a smaal strip of timber and a nice buck ran out twards my buddy it was heading to an open field when i got there my friend was propped against an old piece of farm equipment the deer was about 300 yards and comimg to a stop. He stopped and my friend shot it behind the front shoulder that deer ran about 50 feet and stopped and looked back broadside. He shot again and again we heard the bullet hit this time he jumped in the air and took off for the timber as I was watching thru my scope I could seethe impact of the bullet. he ran and ran and ran,we had snow and the whole day to get him we tracked him into a draw 30 minutes later . My buddy saw him move at 50 yards and shot at his neck as that was all he could see.sounded like a good hit when I got over to him he was baffled he had been hit 3 times and still going strong.We kept going and cought up again this time he was weak and in a ditch he did not make over when he tried to jump it.This time he hit it in the juglar and the deer was finished. Get this were both were shooting our favorite rifles in .270 cal that deer had been shot 4 times and not a bone was hit the first 2 shots were between the spine and the top of the lungs between the ribs both times. I to this day believe that deer would have survived those 2 shots the third shot in the neck definately slowed him and of course the 4th nailed him but I never thought you hit something that many times and not hit bone. It just seemed that you could not kill him. But it just goes to show that somtimes what apears to be a fatal shot is not! Inour case it appeared to be 3 fatal shots that were not.I have alway shot for arm pit and never lost one hit there yet.Neck shots I wont take unless there is some shoulder in there to hit in case I pull a bit and if adeer is facing you a high neck shot can be a very easy target to graze If you dont have a good rest.just my story to share.

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Originally posted by richyb:
Or you could just use a rifle big enough to do the job if you dont have the perfect shot. That wild cat 22 Varminter is just what it says a VARMITER, not a deer gun. Thats all we need is a bunch of dead deer in the bush because someone shot it with a girly gun and it was wounded bad enough to kill it eventually but the hunter never found it.