Your Deer Photos 2002

Northmo Goes South!
My first deer out of the state of Missouri. Dawn and I went down to visit her family for Thanksgiving and her dad took me hunting on his property near Buck Snort, Tenn. (got to love a name like Buck Snort.)

The deer was an eight point with a 16 7/8" inside spread. The antlers were almost identical in shape to a buck Dawn's brother took on the property not long ago. The genetics are pretty evident. This buck also benefited from Horntagger's Homemade Deer Mineral Recipe. Dawns dad got the recipe from the MSIN site and mixed up a bunch to make several mineral licks on the land.

The deer fell to a double lung shot straight through from my CVA Magbolt 150 loaded with 100 grains of Triple 7 and shooting a Precision QT poly tip 275 gr. bullet. I recovered the bullet from the hill side it hit after going through the deer. It did not look too pretty though after it hit that Tennessee gravel. I will be courious to weigh it and see if it is still all there in the wad of lead I pealed off a chunk of rock. He dropped in his tracks. I am really happy with the performance of this bullet on game. This is the second deer I have taken with this bullet and they both dropped in their tracks.
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The hunt started with Dawn's dad putting me in his best stand before light. The stand was located at a cross road of several trails, very good looking spot. The lack of sleep and the busy traveling we'd done the day before started to take it's toll. After an hour in the stand I started nodding off. I though it would be best if I got out of the stand and hunted from the ground a while before I fell out. I made myself comfortable and before I knew it I was studying the interior of my eyelids. When I regained consciousness and got my second wind I climbed the stand once again and settled in for another stint.

This deer was definately a close cousin to the
one I got. Same wide frame and small brow
tines.

Brian was pretty happy with the
buck he got too. even though he
doesn't look like it in this photo.
Also taken with a muzzleloader.

It wasn't long before the wind picked up, my confidence went down and my curiosity went up. I just had to go for a little walk to explore this strange new piece of deer woods. I headed downhill to check out the thick bottom of the valley I had been facing all morning. I moved along slowly looking for sign and finding the trails Ebenezer had told me were there. My walk was slow but steady till I came to the logging road we had drove in on about 150 yards from my stand. I paused to try to figure out where to go next. I heard something on the tall Tennessee hill in front of me. It sounded like a rock falling. I looked up and saw deer moving at an angle down the steep hill, I saw antlers on one of them, the second one. I brought my gun to my shoulder and started trying to find the buck in the scope. The buck seemed to disappear for a second then I caught sight of his neck he had stopped just before getting to the flat of the creek bottom I was standing in. The buck took another step or two and was broadside and still through a small opening through the thick creek bottom forest. I pulled the trigger and when the smoke cleared I could see him lying a little farther down the hill from where he was when I shot. I saw another smaller buck that had been behind him change course and angle back toward the top of the hill. I must have been feeling pretty confident that the one shot was all it was going to take because I did not even reload (something I usually do when hunting with a muzzleloader).

I got to where the buck lay and looked up the hill 10 yards where he was standing when I shot. I saw a place in the ground behind the blood spots where it looked like the bullet had hit. Carefully I used a forked stick to rake the area till I found the gray colored blob of lead stuck to a small rock. I pealed the lead off the rock an put it in my pocket. I got the buck field dressed and drug him to the logging road. and headed up to the truck.

I got to the truck and found evidence that my host had already been there. I shed my coveralls and looked back down the road and saw Ebenezer heading up the road with a big grin, he had found my buck laying next to the road. We got it loaded up and headed home. As the sun was setting we were getting the last of it put in the freezer and watching the deer in his yard that he just feeds and watches. Thanks for a great hunt Ebenezer! If you ever want to be a guide I can vouch for you. It has got to be at least as good a deal as being a door greeter at Wal-mart.

Tom Morrow

Seasoned Guide Ebenezer.

One shot...one kill

I have always wondered how the Hornady 58gr would work on a deer. Now I know.

Larry Mac

Flora Guide Service

We had a great hunt in TX last week. I'm sending a picture of my nephew Patrick, brother Rick and myself with our bucks. These were taken with Live Oak Lodge in Eldorado, TX. Duke Turnage

Jim's Deer

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