Sid R
I'll fess up.
Thursday, February 13, 2020, 09:18

This year I was hunting from a box blind in a rain storm all day. Not using a pistol but a .270 Winchester and a big buck starts running buy. By the time I got the gun out the right window and was lining up a shot leading him, just before I pulled the trigger a bolt of lightning struck a tree top 20 yards from me. Of course the gun went off and he was truckin about 200 yards away and seemed to be struck and staggered. I looked for that buck for three hours in the dark and rain. That gun shoots better than I do.

Three weeks later, my wife is in the same stand. I had just dropped her off and was headed to my 20 foot ladder stand with my Ultimate 41. I put my foot on the first rung of the stand and Bang! The wife shoots. Cursing under my breath, I text her and asked if she got it. Her reply was "I think so."

So I hike my way back to my Ranger and putt over to her stand and she is on the second shooting lane and I can see blood up to her elbows at 175 yards. When I pull up I said I see you got him. He was missing his left antler. I said where is the other antler? and she replied it was in the briars. I went over to fetch it and it had a fresh mark where a bullet had scraped a quarter of the way through it. I grabbed his front legs to throw him up on the Ranger and I noticed a bullet hole in his ear.

I suspect that it was the deer I staggered in the storm. That was her second buck of the year and second of her life. I created a monster. It was a dandy 8 point and it is going to the taxidermist.

She took it with a rusted up broke model 99A in .243 I restored.