jaeger
11-25-2013, 10:17 PM
Last Saturday my buddy and I decided to go out and see if we can find ourselves a Whitetail Buck.
I knew a nice area where i shot a doe last year and also new it held some bucks as well.My buddy was setting up on nice knoll overlooking some clearings as well as an old logging road.
I decided to go and do some bushwhacking through snow up to my knees deep! I found some fresh tracks with the odd drop of blood in it thinking it being a doe in estrous.
I thought there has got to be a buck hanging around so I kept going as slow as I could grunting and using my doe in estrous bleat occasionally without any luck.!:icon_frow
3 hours later i made it on to the logging road again and radioed my buddy to say I was back out on the road to come and pick me up and try another area.
Just as i was turning off the radio I saw 2 whitetail does crossing in front of me about 60 yards out. So I thought with the rut in full swing maybe a buck will follow and decided to get off the road and hide behind a tree and do some grunting and bleeting! Nothing ventured nothing gained was my philosophy! Low and behold a truck came driving up the road and went by me,
I nodded to the passenger in the truck that kind of looked at me like WTF are you doing behind that tree? Any ways they kept going and I thought to myself might as well stay put buddy is gonna come and pick me up shortly who knows what can happen in the mean time.
I did another sequence of grunts and bleats and waited and watched as suddenly a 3 point Whitetail buck materialized from the opposite side that the does were crossing to.
His nose to the ground sniffing like there is no tomorrow! I had to look again just to make sure I was not dreaming. I raised the rifle made sure no one was coming up or down the inactive road
lined up behind the shoulder and pulled the trigger! All I got was a bang that sounded like a cap gun with no recoil whatsoever! the buck twitched when the shot went off and stood for a second as I reloaded then hoofed it off in the trees without giving me another shot. So i went looking where he stood to see if there was any blood hair guts any sign of a hit and there was not even a hair in the fresh snow! I followed the track for about half an hour to see if there was any sign of slowing or any blood at this time nothing at all.
I opened up the chamber took the life round and and removed the bolt and looked down the barrel nothing in the barrel and the shell was empty that I fired at the buck. Did this ever happened to anyone else? I was using factory Remington Corelokt ammo 30-06 160gr.
I knew a nice area where i shot a doe last year and also new it held some bucks as well.My buddy was setting up on nice knoll overlooking some clearings as well as an old logging road.
I decided to go and do some bushwhacking through snow up to my knees deep! I found some fresh tracks with the odd drop of blood in it thinking it being a doe in estrous.
I thought there has got to be a buck hanging around so I kept going as slow as I could grunting and using my doe in estrous bleat occasionally without any luck.!:icon_frow
3 hours later i made it on to the logging road again and radioed my buddy to say I was back out on the road to come and pick me up and try another area.
Just as i was turning off the radio I saw 2 whitetail does crossing in front of me about 60 yards out. So I thought with the rut in full swing maybe a buck will follow and decided to get off the road and hide behind a tree and do some grunting and bleeting! Nothing ventured nothing gained was my philosophy! Low and behold a truck came driving up the road and went by me,
I nodded to the passenger in the truck that kind of looked at me like WTF are you doing behind that tree? Any ways they kept going and I thought to myself might as well stay put buddy is gonna come and pick me up shortly who knows what can happen in the mean time.
I did another sequence of grunts and bleats and waited and watched as suddenly a 3 point Whitetail buck materialized from the opposite side that the does were crossing to.
His nose to the ground sniffing like there is no tomorrow! I had to look again just to make sure I was not dreaming. I raised the rifle made sure no one was coming up or down the inactive road
lined up behind the shoulder and pulled the trigger! All I got was a bang that sounded like a cap gun with no recoil whatsoever! the buck twitched when the shot went off and stood for a second as I reloaded then hoofed it off in the trees without giving me another shot. So i went looking where he stood to see if there was any blood hair guts any sign of a hit and there was not even a hair in the fresh snow! I followed the track for about half an hour to see if there was any sign of slowing or any blood at this time nothing at all.
I opened up the chamber took the life round and and removed the bolt and looked down the barrel nothing in the barrel and the shell was empty that I fired at the buck. Did this ever happened to anyone else? I was using factory Remington Corelokt ammo 30-06 160gr.