Score on doe

[ACEarcher]

Scored on a very nice mature doe this evening. I got out at about 3 and slowly walked around. I was really enjoying where I was and with all the snow. Something about deer hunting in the snow has always appealed to me. So I walk about till about 4:15pm then sit down. Not 15 mins goes by I can see movement coming out of the thicket moving across me. Here come three antlerless deer. I start to scope them out and 2 of them are button bucks and the third is a doe. Remember that adult doe that I let walk by the 2nd last Saturday of archery (i'm almost sure I mentioned it in the reports)? Well this was her. I waited till she was quartering away at about 50yds and pulled the trigger. BOOM smoke fills the air! Love my inline! At first she didn't appear to be hit. She then only made it about 50yds and I lost site of her. I figured she has gotta be down. I walk over to where I first shot her and WHOA!!!! major blood!!! The entire 50yds she ran. A HUGE thanks goes out to pagrizz for filling me in on the best bullets for me. WOW I mean gezz I never had my in-line make a blood trail like that before. I will be using powerbelts from now on always. Briefly looking at her jaw bone age is looking like over 3 1/2. Infact I really wanna say 5 1/2 yr old, but I'm gonna boil it down and clean it first before I examine the cuspts. The pics of the blood trail really don't do it the justice of how good it was.

[ub1243]

i also use power belts. the 348gr
i shot a doe at 30 yards last week, nothing like what you got on the ground. very little blood, but she only went 40 yards. may no filled up yet.
but they do load easy and group well for me.

good job at taking the mature doe. the buttons will be something in a few years, they would be nothing if they are shot.

[scrubbuck1970]

Nice job Ace* Great story and Love the pics.Would Love the chance to Harvest a nice Buck or Doe while we still have snow* on the ground.

[duckwork]

great job. she's a freezer filler!:thup:

[Ole 20 Point]

Way to gitrdone Ace and put some venison on the table!

[Bird Boy]

great job ace, they were movin very well last night, i got one too. were you usin the platinums?

ub, what kind of powerbelts are you using?

[ub1243]

i'm using the 348gr bullets.
the lead and jacketed, they both shoot the same for me.
i'm pushing it with 70gr of loose pyrodex.

this has happened before, not a great blood trail. even though i had a exit. i hunt from a stand, the exit is lower. the jackets are always found under the off side hide, not so with the lead(no jacket). there was a post about this on another forum, lots of guys with the same results. i never found a slug to tell me if the bullet mushroomed or not. i did kill a few that dropped, neck and shoulder intersection. those bullets ended up in pieces. but it hit big bone.
i like the bullets, just the blood trail lacks a little.

[ACEarcher]

45cal. 195gr, hollow points

[DV1]

Congrats on a big old doe. :thup:

[Bird Boy]

alright. the first i shot with the powerbelts dropped, and the second didnt go very far.
ub, how far of shots do you take usually?

[Pagrizz]

alright. the first i shot with the powerbelts dropped, and the second didnt go very far.
ub, how far of shots do you take usually?I shot the 245 gr with 2 pellets[100 grs] and ususally will not shoot over 100 yards,but I practice at longer distances.My best one was a doe at 282 yards.

[SteveHo]

Cool, loved the gore.
I also shoot powerbelts
295 gr copperplated hollowpoints
2 pellets (100 gr)
2 deer shot this year
Total distance traveled after shot = 0 steps