Blackpowder 2017

Well I finally broke my dry spell. A couple weeks ago I was scouting and found a great spot that I felt would produce. I decided to hunt this spot Monday afternoon because the wind was blowing from a good direction. I mainly wanted to see just what kind of activity was going to be working its way thru. Monday afternoon I had 6 does and yearlings come by with 3 bucks. I passed on the bucks to let them grow a little. I decided to take off work this morning because I had something to do. I thought that I'd give it another try and went back to that same spot. I wasn't planning to stay to long and only able to hunt this morning. I had just climbed down and only took 2 steps away from the stand when I spied a doe staring at me. We had a stand off for seemed like 5 minutes then she walked towards me about 12-15 feet away. She didn't spook just turned around and walked back to where she had come from. During our stand off I spied a buck walking in the woods behind her. Also during the stand off with the doe several deer started walking in. Suddenly I had 5 deer at only 15 yards. The buck was following them in and as he stepped out into the opening he looked at me, I got the big eyed look. I decided that if I was going to shoot I better do so quick. When I shot the woods erupted with deer running everywhere. I walked over to where I shot him and there was hair everywhere. I thought to myself "This isn't good" I shouldn't see this much hair. But how could I miss he was only 15 yards away. I had watched him run off out of sight and had a good pin point on where I last saw him. I started walking in the direction that he had run. I didn't see any blood until I had walked about 25 yards then I saw a small drop of bright red blood. (good) As I was walking to the last place I had seen him a couple of deer jumped up and run off. I'm thinking great this is going to be a long trail but as I walked up to the place the deer had gotten up I saw him laying there. From start to finish he only went about 50 yards. I Also took some other pictures Monday that I had some time to be creative. The scope picture took some time and was tricky to get lined up. He was a 5 point that had no brow tines.

 

You know me I like stuffing my sausage...

 

I use pydex powder 100 grains and powerbelt bullets. (I know they don't have the best penetration) But at 15 yards really?

 

I have seen first hand what the Barnes Sabots will do and it is impressive. Full copper and they do expand like this.