Got it done!

So I still have a lot to learn shooting a traditional muzzy. I built the gun from a kit a couple years ago and thought I wanted to shoot slugs this time not patch and ball... Bad choice... fouls up too much between shots when in the field.. it was like i was shooting blanks..

I hunted 6 days of the season this year. I saw about a dozen or so bucks. Felt like I was shooting blanks at most of them. So on the last day of the season I decided I'd take my brothers white muzzy with the scope. I still want to shoot one with my kit gun. Maybe next time..

At approximately 7:10 PM Thursday night, which would be 7 minutes after sunset according to the GPS I shot at a two point.

At approx. 7:14 PM we found this:

Untitled by stimmie_78, on Flickr
The tracking has begun!!!

We followed the blood trail slowly. Losing it and having to go back to the last known spot and search harder. Finally we saw him laying on the ground still breathing a bit. I used my kit gun to dispatch him quickly and the time for work had begun.

Untitled by stimmie_78, on Flickr

Untitled by stimmie_78, on Flickr

It was a short 250 or so yard drag on a well used trail back to the main road. And then a 1/3 mile hike to the truck.

Granted he's not the biggest buck out there... He's not the smallest either. I saw lots that were bigger and couldn't connect. I couldn't even connect on smaller. But I finally did with this guy. He's my second buck I've shot. First with a muzzy! And it's meat for the freezer!

Maybe I'll get lucky enough to draw again next year.... Probably not though.. been every other year for me and my brother.