Well I'm through deer season here and it has been quite memorable to say the least. We were hunting 350 acres on a farm that is partially wooded. during our first week my buddy Gary was sitting quietly in a blind near a soy field when suddenly he saw three beef cattle charging through the soy field. They were doing about mach 2 and just broke right through the fence row! . He called the farm with his cell phone to explain what he had seen and if any of their nieghbours had reported missing cattle. Well it seems that one of the owners of the farm we are hunting ordered the three to keep one of his barns warm this winter and just two hours after they were delivered they managed to break down a barrier and escape.
For over a week now they had been trying to catch them without any success. They would not let anyone approch them and if you did they ran fast.....problem is they seem to like running straight at the person close to them as Garys two cracked ribs attest too. Now folks are calling the farm to say that they almost had accidents on the road trying to avoid the cattle.......
Son the Saturday of the second week we were told that if we were to spot the cattle anywhere on the farm we were to shoot them and they would take the loss before the darn things caused any more damage or someone was hurt.

Well Sunday morning I was walking through a meadow nice and quiet when all of a sudden I heard a crashing rumble comming through the woods to my left. I could just make out through the woods one of the cows comming over a rise at a full trot. There was a small break in the trees about 100 yards ahead of it. I dropped to one knee, got the head in the crosshairs and followed it through the trees untill it came to the break.......bang! Well I knew I hit it because I saw the blood comming out of its mouth and snout but it just stood there staring at me! It was about 75 yards away and all I was thinking was finish it off before it covers the distance between us real fast. So shot no. 2 went off and it started to wobble and its knees started to buckle. When it went down it just lifted its head and I took the opportunity to shoot it in the neck. I was taking no chances that it would suffer or run as I was shooting my 243 with 100 gr. PSP's! All in all it only took less then a minute for it to expire but it felt like an hour.....

After gutting it in the woods....man that was a big gut pile....dragging it out with a quad, we got it to the meadow where we could get it into the bucket of a tractor and bring it to the farm for quartering.
Deffinately a story that will be told for quite a few years in our hunting camps.




The season finished with me harvesting two does. One during rifle season and the other during black powder season. Good eating this winter.

You have to change your name to oopswasthatyourcow?....

Drove near St Athanase last summer,assuming Gaspe peninsula?

Had to paint "cow" on my calves as my neighbor had a foal shot standing next to its mare!

Dan

My God man.Did you not know a 243 is not capable of slaying a beast that size?????

Seems a little extreme. You don't have Cowboys in Quebec?
Grizz

My sister's father in law offered my brother a cow for free to turn into Hamburger. We shot it with his T/C Omega .50 cal smoke pole. I've never seen a cow drop so fast! It's legs simply came up to it's stomach, then the entire body hit the ground with a thud. Coolest thing I've ever seen get shot with a .50 cal ML!

I got 2 does as well this year OOPS, and according to last nights supper of tender loins, they're mighty fine eating! Congrats on your deer and your bovine prize as well! Do you get to keep any steaks/roasts from the cow?

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Originally posted by woodmanDan:
You have to change your name to oopswasthatyourcow?....

Drove near St Athanase last summer,assuming Gaspe peninsula?

Had to paint "cow" on my calves as my neighbor had a foal shot standing next to its mare!

Dan

No not the Gaspe region, I'm in the St-Jean-sur-Richelieu area.

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Originally posted by CoyoteKiller82:
My sister's father in law offered my brother a cow for free to turn into Hamburger. We shot it with his T/C Omega .50 cal smoke pole. I've never seen a cow drop so fast! It's legs simply came up to it's stomach, then the entire body hit the ground with a thud. Coolest thing I've ever seen get shot with a .50 cal ML!

I got 2 does as well this year OOPS, and according to last nights supper of tender loins, they're mighty fine eating! Congrats on your deer and your bovine prize as well! Do you get to keep any steaks/roasts from the cow?

I didn't want any, that cow had been running for over a week. That meat will be the toughest anyone has ever had!

My does are very tasty also. Tender and lean. We will be having venison for the next few months. Everybody in my household loves it so there is never any left for long in the freezer. Actually as long as there is venison in there we don't buy any red meat. We will eat venison 3-4 times a week.

243? that's nothing! Some on AR would have went after the cow with their 22 Hornet...others a 577. Good job!!! Lou

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Originally posted by Dr. Lou:
243? that's nothing! Some on AR would have went after the cow with their 22 Hornet...others a 577. Good job!!! Lou

I've seen plenty of cows fall victim to the dreaded 22lr, one shot to the curl and they're done!