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Here is the story. Anyhow I was watching that blow out of a football game the Packers-Seahawks. Well around 5:00 I decided I will head out and see if I see anything. I decide to head out to an area that has always been good for me T-3. As I turn on to the road heading up to woodcutters I see some deer I stop roll down the window all does. So I keep going and about a mile down the road I see another deer standing there. I roll the window down and it's a buck. So I come up with a plan I decide to drive down the road and go around the corner so he can't see my truck anymore. He is still there not spooked at all. I get out of my truck and make my way to a little knob on the hill. I get there and I look and he is still standing there looking at road. I get my range finder out and it is giving me crazy reading because of the tall grass according to the range finder he was 12yds I know he is further than that at least 50plus yds. So now I start crawling on my hands and knees trying to close the distance and the whole time he stands there looking at the road and towards my direction well I keep crawling and by then I gave up on the range finder. I stop and look up and now the deer is walking towards I was like know way so I stop he goes down into a litte ravine so I get an arrow ready but he doesn't come straight up like I thought he would he come in towards my right still walking towards me at an angle by then I have my guardian at full draw and I decide he is at 40yds he stops I put the 40yd pin behind his shoulders and I let the arrow fly. I heard the arrow hit him, it was a loud he spins around and starts running I see the arrow sticking out of him about 8 inches or so was hanging out him. Well I took off towards his direction I know a mistake I didn't see him so I calm myself go back to where I shot him and start walking the general route he ran there was no blood at all. I keep walking scanning left and right. I went about 100 yds and I was thinking to myself I need to go get some help, I keep walking and I looked to my right about 15yds I saw horns and my arrow sticking out him. This was probably one of the best moments ever becuase as I stated before this was my 1st archery kill and a nice one at that. The thing of it I missed earlier that morning at a much smaller one. That Guardian was quiet he didn't jump the string as I hear about so much. The rage 3 broad head performed like it was supposed to the entrance hole was a good 4inches wide and it was lodged in his left hind qtr that was the reason for no pass thru  Handmade paracord rifle slings: paracordcraftsbypatricia@gmail.com | ||
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Grate Coues , any Coues is good even better Taken with a bow much harder . Congrads , ever go to CouesWhiteTail.com site . | |||
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Great Buck,Congrats!!!!  | |||
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That's an excellent Coues buck and certainly one to be proud of. Now aren't you glad you didn't stay in and watch football...  Congratulations!!! Bobby Μολὼν λαβέ The most important thing in life is not what we do but how and why we do it. - Nana Mouskouri | |||
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John, Outstanding. Mike Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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WOW, that's the skinniest deer if have ever seen ... just kidding, I know it's caped@ Great job... I don't have a coues yet@ opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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That's a dandy buck. ~Ann   | |||
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Quite an achievement. CONGRATS! Good Hunting, Tim Herald Worldwide Trophy Adventures tim@trophyadventures.com | |||
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