Took a paraplegic 8 year old named Colby deer hunting on our family farm yesterday for Mississippi's Youth season. His father brought him a .44 cal rifle. I grinned and said your boy is in for a treat. Pulled out my GA Crusader and the boys eyes LIT UP... Said
"I'm gonna be shooting that!!!???" I said that's up to you little man. So we practiced dry firing , safety ect... And he shot a 3/4" 5 shot group during target practice! I smiled and said he was ready.
He shot a doe at 123 yards with a 140 vld on top of 42.6 h4350. W
Something happened a little strange. Deer was perfectly broadside, made a PERFECT hot 2" behind and 2" above the shoulder. On the exit side ... bullet straight threw the GUTS. She ran about 80 yards and I followed guts on trees in order to find her. I wonder if the bullet hit a rib and ricocheted. The bullet exited about 8 to 9 inches to the right of where it hit on the other side . She was facing to our left.
It's possible she may have been quartering just a hair, but I was watching through my Steiners and she looked straight to me. As far as damage. It wasn't exactly what I was expecting. Wound channel was average and the TKO I was expecting didn't happen. Whereas I shot a pig with a 140 hybrid and it blew a hole in him I could have fit the whole rifle threw on the exit side.
Overall it was a great experience, especially when I pulled the deer into the field. The boy and dad both thought he had missed because she wheeled around and acted "normal ". I heard the bullet pop her and kept my mouth after he said" daddy I missed". I tod them to stay here and mark where it was standing. I kinda just disappeared and when I brought the doe out I thought he was gonna jump out of the stand. It was truly inspiring to see such a nice young man with challenges most of us couldn't possibly fathom have such a positive and "go get em" attitude. He never complained a bit and was truly one of the happiest kids I've ever met. I want to thank my father and Game Warden Gilbert Barham for helping put this together and making Colby a very happy young man. (AND MAKING ME GIDDY TOO!)
Colby practicing aiming in the stand
Colby's face the WHOLE time we spent together
Colby, his father, Ashly, and my friend and local Game Warden Gilbert Barham just before we set off
“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.”
― Jeff Cooper, Art of the Rifle
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"I'm gonna be shooting that!!!???" I said that's up to you little man. So we practiced dry firing , safety ect... And he shot a 3/4" 5 shot group during target practice! I smiled and said he was ready.
He shot a doe at 123 yards with a 140 vld on top of 42.6 h4350. W
Something happened a little strange. Deer was perfectly broadside, made a PERFECT hot 2" behind and 2" above the shoulder. On the exit side ... bullet straight threw the GUTS. She ran about 80 yards and I followed guts on trees in order to find her. I wonder if the bullet hit a rib and ricocheted. The bullet exited about 8 to 9 inches to the right of where it hit on the other side . She was facing to our left.
It's possible she may have been quartering just a hair, but I was watching through my Steiners and she looked straight to me. As far as damage. It wasn't exactly what I was expecting. Wound channel was average and the TKO I was expecting didn't happen. Whereas I shot a pig with a 140 hybrid and it blew a hole in him I could have fit the whole rifle threw on the exit side.
Overall it was a great experience, especially when I pulled the deer into the field. The boy and dad both thought he had missed because she wheeled around and acted "normal ". I heard the bullet pop her and kept my mouth after he said" daddy I missed". I tod them to stay here and mark where it was standing. I kinda just disappeared and when I brought the doe out I thought he was gonna jump out of the stand. It was truly inspiring to see such a nice young man with challenges most of us couldn't possibly fathom have such a positive and "go get em" attitude. He never complained a bit and was truly one of the happiest kids I've ever met. I want to thank my father and Game Warden Gilbert Barham for helping put this together and making Colby a very happy young man. (AND MAKING ME GIDDY TOO!)
Colby practicing aiming in the stand
Colby's face the WHOLE time we spent together
Colby, his father, Ashly, and my friend and local Game Warden Gilbert Barham just before we set off
“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.”
― Jeff Cooper, Art of the Rifle
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