NDWoods
AH enthusiast
- Joined
- Dec 20, 2020
- Messages
- 295
- Reaction score
- 772
- Location
- Arlington Texas
- Media
- 8
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- DSC, SCI
- Hunted
- USA, Hawaii, South Africa
I took out my CVA inline pistol again to wrap up deer season on the final day of muzzleloader season. The morning was forecasted to be 21F so I had to go! I was up at 3:30 am and headed to East Texas to get in the blind. On arrival, it was actually 19F. It finally felt like hunting season!
I thought for sure deer would be moving early but I started to get worried at 9:30 after not seeing anything. Right at 10am a small doe emerged from the woods, and just a minute or so behind her were three more does. I let them all get into the food plot and picked out the largest of the does and took the shot at 55 yds. The reaction was not at all like a high powered rifle with the classic donkey kick. It raised her straight up and almost backwards! She was quartering to so it was just inside the closest shoulder and out just back of the off shoulder. She was hit very hard but ran into the woods only 20 yards behind her.
I waited a bit and packed all my gear. No blood that I could see in the food plot but another 10 feet away and the blood was steady. She had blood coming out both sides. Always a huge sigh of relief when you still have not laid eyes on your animal.
I followed the heavy blood trail and found her after a very short walk. To my surprise, she made it about 75 yds.
When I field dressed her I found the heart untouched and both lungs destroyed. The 300 grain Thor solid copper definitely expanded with an exit wound about 2 inches at its widest. Some of the sharp edges clearly indicate expansion to me from those copper petals.
Awesome end to my deer season. I started the season with a crossbow kill, then rifle kill, and ended it on the coldest morning of the season with a muzzleloader pistol kill.
I use 80 grains of Blackhorn 209 by volume and a Thor 300 grain .500 bullet fitted to the bore of my pistol using their sizing kit. Pics of exit wound in case anyone has been on the fence or considering one of the CVA pistols for hunting.
Fun times!
I thought for sure deer would be moving early but I started to get worried at 9:30 after not seeing anything. Right at 10am a small doe emerged from the woods, and just a minute or so behind her were three more does. I let them all get into the food plot and picked out the largest of the does and took the shot at 55 yds. The reaction was not at all like a high powered rifle with the classic donkey kick. It raised her straight up and almost backwards! She was quartering to so it was just inside the closest shoulder and out just back of the off shoulder. She was hit very hard but ran into the woods only 20 yards behind her.
I waited a bit and packed all my gear. No blood that I could see in the food plot but another 10 feet away and the blood was steady. She had blood coming out both sides. Always a huge sigh of relief when you still have not laid eyes on your animal.
I followed the heavy blood trail and found her after a very short walk. To my surprise, she made it about 75 yds.
When I field dressed her I found the heart untouched and both lungs destroyed. The 300 grain Thor solid copper definitely expanded with an exit wound about 2 inches at its widest. Some of the sharp edges clearly indicate expansion to me from those copper petals.
Awesome end to my deer season. I started the season with a crossbow kill, then rifle kill, and ended it on the coldest morning of the season with a muzzleloader pistol kill.
I use 80 grains of Blackhorn 209 by volume and a Thor 300 grain .500 bullet fitted to the bore of my pistol using their sizing kit. Pics of exit wound in case anyone has been on the fence or considering one of the CVA pistols for hunting.
Fun times!
