koger
Silver $$ Contributor
Our early ML season is only one weekend here in KY, with a one buck per year limit. The wife and I hunted hard Saturday and sat for 4 hours Sunday morning in a monsoon. Skies cleared about 5:30 yesterday and the wind completely died at 6:30, got still as a mouse. At last light a good 8pt came sneaking out to scent rope, feeder I had out and stopped head on at 130 yds, saw my white beard in the blind, I believe. I put the crosshair at the right shoulder chest junction and squeezed the trigger. Boom, Whop and before I lost him in the smoke and recoil, I saw him flip backwards and then he regained his feet and headed for the woodline 50 yds away. I reloaded the TC Omega and called the wife who had seen where he went into the woodline,and she said he was having a hard time. She was hunting about 400 yds away from me. She got in the side by side and came and got me. In the wood line she found a huge stream of blood. 10 yds into the woods, the ground goes from flat to a near 90 degree vertical for 400 yds straight down to lake cumberland. She found him about 150 feet over the bank, with his horns lodged in a small sapling, he had slid on his chest about the entire 50 yds dead. I called a young buddy of mine and ran back to the house and got 2 75 feet ropes. I backed the side by side down as far as I could and they had to drag him up the bluff 10 yds and tie him up. I put it in 4 wheel drive and snaked him out to the field with no issues. He had a 16" inside spread a big long nose, older deer and a good size body, about 1 inch of fat on him when we gutted him. I dropped him off at buddy who processes deer, I usually do it myself but did not feel like it. He weighed #170 on the scales My wife had to do the leg work, as I am partially paralyzed on my right side, from 4 hip replacements due to infection and 3 strokes in one day, 8 years ago, especially my right leg, and have to use a crutch to get around. I am blessed to have a wife who loves to hunt as much as I do and will bust her butt to make it happen for me.
I used a TC Omega, .50 with a Harvester Brand .451-300gr plastic tipped,jacketed scorpion bullet in a black crush rib sabot with 100 grs of BH209 behind it. I have taken 26 deer with this gun/load combination in KY and other states, white tail and mule deer as well in the last 13 years. I have taken deer from 100-282 yds with this setup, which includes a Nikon InlineXR300 scope with real world BDC reticles every 50 yds past 100 yds out to 300yds. In shooting from a bench it will shoot sub 3" groups at 300 yds with little wind drift. I have never recovered a bullet from this load. I shot a big buck head on at 182 yds that weighed 215# hit him square in the chest and exited out the left ham, and I shot a mule deer broadside at 282 yds, punched thru both shoulders and left a 2.5" exit hole. I can send a pic to someones ph# or email if they will post it for me.
I used a TC Omega, .50 with a Harvester Brand .451-300gr plastic tipped,jacketed scorpion bullet in a black crush rib sabot with 100 grs of BH209 behind it. I have taken 26 deer with this gun/load combination in KY and other states, white tail and mule deer as well in the last 13 years. I have taken deer from 100-282 yds with this setup, which includes a Nikon InlineXR300 scope with real world BDC reticles every 50 yds past 100 yds out to 300yds. In shooting from a bench it will shoot sub 3" groups at 300 yds with little wind drift. I have never recovered a bullet from this load. I shot a big buck head on at 182 yds that weighed 215# hit him square in the chest and exited out the left ham, and I shot a mule deer broadside at 282 yds, punched thru both shoulders and left a 2.5" exit hole. I can send a pic to someones ph# or email if they will post it for me.
