The real big 50 makes meat again. I watched this deer come in from ½ mile away even got some video of him as he got closer. I put the camera down and picked up the rifle. I watched as he vented his anger on a juniper tree and then a small bull berry bush. At this point he was about 200 yards. He proceeded to cross a coulee coming out on the other side. I was really looking for a mule deer with a wider rack, but this guy had 5 on each side and was tall. When he stopped on the hill above the coulee, again about 200 yards I thought what a perfect shot, I flipped up the Lawrence sight, (the notch on the bottom of the staff is 200 yards) put the front sight on his shoulder and touched the trigger, he went down and was done for the count. When I was done dressing him out, I got out the range finder and checked the distance back to where I was when I shot, 205 yards.
The load was 100 grains of Goex Fg, card wad, a lube wad, another card wad and a 473 grain paper patched bullet.
After skinning him we checked the bullet path, it had busted his shoulder, went through the back bone where the bullet fragmented destroying his lungs and the top of the heart, two pieces of the bullet was found under his hide and another piece had went on through.
The bullet alloy was 1-60 which duplicates the original sharps load.
The photo of the hill is where I shot from, at the very top and I’m standing where the deer fell. The knife in the photo, is a copy of an original Sheffield English bowie, I have the original and Rdnck made the copy, it was first blood for the knife.
