Deer season ended with a bang
Sorry I am so late on this post, but nevertheless here it is...
My brother and I sat in the stand on Saturday morning for the final weekend of black powder season in our neck of Texas. As my brother doesn't currently own a black powder rifle, he was borrowing one of my very generous friends Thompson Center Omega with open sights.
We had agreed beforehand that we wanted to take a single doe (or my brother would take a legal buck if the opportunity presented itself). So, the first one to have an opportunity would shoot and we'd be done.
Well, we got to the lease around 5:45am, and it was a brisk 30 degrees, that quickly dropped to 26 degrees at sunrise (according to weather.com). I didn't see a single thing all morning, but my brother was surrounded by action. He had 2 small 4 points eating under the feeder for about 45 minutes, including a bit of sparring. They eventually moved on, and around 7:30am some does came out. My brother decided to take a shot at the biggest doe that had come out. The shot was about 80 yds, and with the smoke and steam it took an eternity to see the outcome. I heard the shot and immediately texted him to confirm it was his. He replied "Yep!". So, since we had agreed we were done after the shot, I called him. I asked if it was lying there, and he said he couldn't tell, but he thinks it ran off. I told him to come pick me up on the 4-wheeler and we'd go give it look. We looked for 30-45 minutes without finding a drop of blood, or a spec of hair.
Conclusion: he missed. Open sights, black powder, gun he had never fired. No harm there, but wish he'd have gotten it.
Either way, it was a beautiful final morning, and I got to spend it with my brother. Can't wait for my kids to grow up and be able to start hunting with me!
My brother and I sat in the stand on Saturday morning for the final weekend of black powder season in our neck of Texas. As my brother doesn't currently own a black powder rifle, he was borrowing one of my very generous friends Thompson Center Omega with open sights.
We had agreed beforehand that we wanted to take a single doe (or my brother would take a legal buck if the opportunity presented itself). So, the first one to have an opportunity would shoot and we'd be done.
Well, we got to the lease around 5:45am, and it was a brisk 30 degrees, that quickly dropped to 26 degrees at sunrise (according to weather.com). I didn't see a single thing all morning, but my brother was surrounded by action. He had 2 small 4 points eating under the feeder for about 45 minutes, including a bit of sparring. They eventually moved on, and around 7:30am some does came out. My brother decided to take a shot at the biggest doe that had come out. The shot was about 80 yds, and with the smoke and steam it took an eternity to see the outcome. I heard the shot and immediately texted him to confirm it was his. He replied "Yep!". So, since we had agreed we were done after the shot, I called him. I asked if it was lying there, and he said he couldn't tell, but he thinks it ran off. I told him to come pick me up on the 4-wheeler and we'd go give it look. We looked for 30-45 minutes without finding a drop of blood, or a spec of hair.
Conclusion: he missed. Open sights, black powder, gun he had never fired. No harm there, but wish he'd have gotten it.
Either way, it was a beautiful final morning, and I got to spend it with my brother. Can't wait for my kids to grow up and be able to start hunting with me!
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