Here's a few pictures from our season-closing hunt last weekend. We've been hunting this piece of property pretty intensively this season to try and get the doe:buck ratio in check. It belongs to a friend's family and has been infrequently hunted over the past 5-10 years, but with little regard to harvesting appropriately aged bucks. Over the last year or two, my friend and I have been learning a lot about QDM and are now setting out to get 'a hold of the whitetail herd out there. I was able to fill in my last two empty tags this past weekend, for a season total of 10 does and an accidental button head. I had 1 buck tag left, but we basically put a moratorium on bucks for the next couple of years, unless it's an absolute monster.
Doe# 9 was shot at 161 yards through the right eye out of a box blind I've been calling "Hathcock Field" due to the size and potential shot range. Kinda has a new meaning now...
Doe #10 was taken in the same spot at 220 yards. I had been curious how the 105 gr A-max would perform on a vitals shot... as evidenced by the 1' exit wound and solid blood trail, they do very well. She made it 20-30 yards after the shot, making her the first one I had to "look" for all season.
Several of us had some luck that night, 4 100+ lb does, and one yearling doe... the processor is right down the road, so we loaded up the "farm truck" to drop 'em off.
It must have been the venison sausage breath...
Doe# 9 was shot at 161 yards through the right eye out of a box blind I've been calling "Hathcock Field" due to the size and potential shot range. Kinda has a new meaning now...
Doe #10 was taken in the same spot at 220 yards. I had been curious how the 105 gr A-max would perform on a vitals shot... as evidenced by the 1' exit wound and solid blood trail, they do very well. She made it 20-30 yards after the shot, making her the first one I had to "look" for all season.
Several of us had some luck that night, 4 100+ lb does, and one yearling doe... the processor is right down the road, so we loaded up the "farm truck" to drop 'em off.
It must have been the venison sausage breath...
