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Nice shot and buck Dave,should be a good eating too !

I tried to get my wife to help drag one and she ran out the door to the neighbors down the road (convinced the neighbors husband to help thou)

Good shooting.

Good job Dave....time for some venison chili!!!!!!!

Thanks for letting us share your good fortune...Geo

Nice buck!

Too Funny, Dave! You run a doublegun page, love big, no, BIG bore double rifles and you get your deer with a bow.
Must have had a double headed broadhead, maybe? Great story.
Def a Great wife & daughter, and great seeing you too ~

..a blast from the past

I married my wife as she was the first girlfriend I ever had who would come partridge hunting with me and carry the dead partridges, (ruffed grouse)
3 years ago I had surgery for a right shoulder rotator cuff injury and my arm was in a sling. I went out to my far meadow and laid back in a mound. I had a willow fork in my right hand to support the forend of my Ruger No1 in 7x57. I called on my deer call and a little buck came out of the willows, and I shot it. I walked back to the farm and got my wife Gail to drive me back to the willow patch in the Jeep and tow ropes. The heart shot buck had wandered a way back into the willows and collapsed.
We just had enough tow ropes to reach the deer and hook onto the antlers and drag it back to the yard under the light. Quite a pantomime gutting out that deer with only one arm. Gail held the legs while I did the cutting and gutting and helped pull out the clockwork. So Gail is surely a keeper. Pretty good missus all round, taking a sip of her 2 year old crabapple wine, superb, and about to book flights to Vancouver to see the kids and grandkids for Christmas, life's not too bad at 70,
Mikey

Mike...I empathize on the shoulder. I was not sure I'd be bow hunting this year. In fact I missed the Vintage Cup due to a chronic shoulder & neck issue I have. I believe that was my wife's motivation to help out. I've had a couple cortisone shots and a bunch of physical therapy. In fact another appointment in the morning. The bow works fine unless both neck and shoulder go south at the same time. Then I literally can't move much.

In any even my brilliant son Maxx and I were having a heart to heart about me not bow hunting this year...He tells my I only have to manage to shoot once. Apparently so...;-) I have been fortunate and hope my shoulder holds up several more seasons. I like bow hunting...it's quiet, warmer and the animals are relaxed. I don't shoot bad either.

As for Bob Rowley busting my stones...Gun season opens Saturday. It's the first time ever we get to use rifles in upstate NY. I typically hunt with a fully rifled Ithaca DeerSlayer shotgun with a low mag scope and sabot slugs...at least I have for the last 5 or 6 years since the sights on my SxS Bernardelli slug gun went blurry on me.

This year I spent the summer developing a load for my 9.3x74R
Merkel 140 1.1 Double rifle. I settled on 59.5gr of Reloader 15 in Norma cases with WLR primers and a 250 grain Nolser Ballistic Tip (I bought a bunch on close out).

Both that and my Krieghoff Plus Drilling will be called into service for the balance of Deer blasting season in NY...Both wear low mag scopes...Leupold 1.5-5 VX-III's...The Drilling uses the same load as the DR but can reach out to 300+ yards...It also has an illuminated reticle scope (perfect for late high stand hunting).

So yes...the double gun guy will be doubling up on the balance of the season.

I will note that my freezer is full a bow "eating doe" a few weeks back and the buck above...If I shoot another it's gotta be bigger and I can say with some certainty my wife won't be so kind about me monopolizing das freezer!

Thank you all for your participation and your kind words.

...250 grain Nolser Ballistic Tip, eh ~
Well, be sure to post a pic or two of how that Merkel Double Rifle Pumpkin thrower did... and make sure you post one of your wife & daughter pointing the direction as You drag this time ! Hope you get a Big one !