Josie's opening day

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   FOG, RAIN, Snow! Need I go on?Cold, crappy, and muddy, but the show must go on.
Its a 150 mile one way drive to the ranch we were hunting, the last 50 miles is on gravel then mostly dirt, typical Montana hunt.
We were in to a lot of deer all the way up, on the roads, in the ditches and I swear some where jumping out of the roadside trees.
This would be a 4wheeler hunt, little other option.
5 minutes in Josie sees a deer. We stopped yesterday and picked up white tail tags. The gras is to tall to sit and shoot off sticks, she had to stand and shoot across the handlebars of the wheeler. I never had her prentice like that so she had to figure it out as she went. The deer don't mind you when your on the wheeler but they get nervous when you get off. Then she had to pick one out another first there where 7 does standing 
broadside to her. She picks one This is her longest shot to date 215 yards. I whispered to her to ling up on her back, she did the gun goes bang the deer goes down and tries to do a hand stand falling 10 feet from where it started. YUP one down.
We gutted, loaded it in the wheeler trailer and gushed on.
Maybe 15 minutes later we see two more, Did you know a wet deer is about imposable to see even when there laying in short grass. We stop and put the glasses on them, one was a buck not a big one and maybe her smallest to date but she was wet and miserable and said she wanted to take it.
OK another first this one was 250 yards and standing next to a near impenetrable bunch of Hawthorn bushes. Again standing using the handlebars, no whisper this time she had it figured out, BANG. But the deer did not fall in the spot. It bucked and dove in to the brush, dang.
We drove to the spot and could see blood spry all over, we had to crawl in almost on our belles to find it. Maybe 15 feet but no wat to see it from the edge of the brush. Kind of like hunting with BEAR.
Anyway we tied a rope on it and pullet it out with the wheeler. At 250 yards the bullet dropped 4" and just behind the shoulder blade then through the lungs and top of the heart then out the off side shoulder blade. Dang good shot.
I got a doe tag to try to ger a pistol deer with the 45colt. We saw a ton with in 30/40 yards to bad the Blackhawk was still in the truck miles away.
The D-I-L had two doe tags to fill and she did. She wanted to shoot a big whitey but we did not see one she wanted. Bear crap everywhere but no bear seen. We did see a white wolf on the property next to where we where hunting, no shot or we would has tried. 

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d4570 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby Joined: 27 January 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 9961	Post Options Post Reply Quote d4570 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Josie's opening day Posted: 23 October 2022 at 09:02
	FOG, RAIN, Snow! Need I go on? Cold, crappy, and muddy, but the show must go on. Its a 150 mile one way drive to the ranch we were hunting, the last 50 miles is on gravel then mostly dirt, typical Montana hunt. We were in to a lot of deer all the way up, on the roads, in the ditches and I swear some where jumping out of the roadside trees. This would be a 4wheeler hunt, little other option. 5 minutes in Josie sees a deer. We stopped yesterday and picked up white tail tags. The gras is to tall to sit and shoot off sticks, she had to stand and shoot across the handlebars of the wheeler. I never had her prentice like that so she had to figure it out as she went. The deer don't mind you when your on the wheeler but they get nervous when you get off. Then she had to pick one out another first there where 7 does standing broadside to her. She picks one This is her longest shot to date 215 yards. I whispered to her to ling up on her back, she did the gun goes bang the deer goes down and tries to do a hand stand falling 10 feet from where it started. YUP one down. We gutted, loaded it in the wheeler trailer and gushed on. Maybe 15 minutes later we see two more, Did you know a wet deer is about imposable to see even when there laying in short grass. We stop and put the glasses on them, one was a buck not a big one and maybe her smallest to date but she was wet and miserable and said she wanted to take it. OK another first this one was 250 yards and standing next to a near impenetrable bunch of Hawthorn bushes. Again standing using the handlebars, no whisper this time she had it figured out, BANG. But the deer did not fall in the spot. It bucked and dove in to the brush, dang. We drove to the spot and could see blood spry all over, we had to crawl in almost on our belles to find it. Maybe 15 feet but no wat to see it from the edge of the brush. Kind of like hunting with BEAR. Anyway we tied a rope on it and pullet it out with the wheeler. At 250 yards the bullet dropped 4" and just behind the shoulder blade then through the lungs and top of the heart then out the off side shoulder blade. Dang good shot. I got a doe tag to try to ger a pistol deer with the 45colt. We saw a ton with in 30/40 yards to bad the Blackhawk was still in the truck miles away. The D-I-L had two doe tags to fill and she did. She wanted to shoot a big whitey but we did not see one she wanted. Bear crap everywhere but no bear seen. We did see a white wolf on the property next to where we where hunting, no shot or we would has tried.
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BEAR Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Administrator Joined: 07 September 2013 Location: Appalachian Mtn Status: Offline Points: 14390	Post Options Post Reply Quote BEAR Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23 October 2022 at 09:26
	Congratulations. Lots of good eating there. antlers don't taste good anyway! She looks all bundled up, still cold? Sounds like you did a good job on shooting instruction.
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MapleHill Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .375 Holland & Holland Magnum Joined: 01 January 2016 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 796	Post Options Post Reply Quote MapleHill Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 23 October 2022 at 11:17
	Great shooting!!!

d4570 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby Joined: 27 January 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 9961	Post Options Post Reply Quote d4570 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23 October 2022 at 11:47
	That was before the snow started to stick. She got WAY colder then that.
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Wing master Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Administrator AKA StraightShooter Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 8029	Post Options Post Reply Quote Wing master Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23 October 2022 at 15:22
	Great job to all of you. That's really good shootin'. Congratulations.
	I have always considered myself to be quite the bullshitter, But ocasionally it is nice to sit back and listen to a true professional......So, Carry on.

Irish Bird Dog Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby Too many Joined: 01 March 2009 Location: Midwest Status: Offline Points: 5574	Post Options Post Reply Quote Irish Bird Dog Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 November 2022 at 21:29
	wow....that gal can shoot!
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