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Friday, what a day! Very unusual!

I was made redundant last week but fortunately got two quick job interviews in a town close to a piece of ground I frequent.

So Friday at first light I snook around looking for a fox. Bumped into a fox but had to shoot through twigs, the bullet was deflected. Fox ran off, no blood.

Went home and went to first interview. After that I had a couple of hours spare so went to an egg unit to check any fox activity.

 

When I got to the edge of this small farm which is surrounded with forestry in front of me I kick up a bedded fallow doe. She has a broken rear leg!

Instinctively I throw the wmr up and view the leg better as she hobbled away. She stops but is looking at me. I can see bone sticking out and blood dripping!

I hesitate and she hobbles off around a bend following a brook. I follow and see she has bedded down by the brook. Still no humane shot!

 

She hobbles off again but this time it was obvious she was weakening.

 

I turned to leave, anxious of the time and my next job interview but looking at the blood I could not abandon her! All sorts of things were whizzing around in my head, why could this of not happened when I had the 357 or the 308!

I changed my mind again and marched around her to get the wind right but now was off my permission! I knew the land owner and the keeper so proceded.

As I rounded her guessed local I noticed there was three of us! A fox was following her now too! I was very tempted to shoot that but as I stalked slowly and using the fox that was now circling her, found her bedded under a fallen pine.

 

At 50-60yds shot one immobilised her but now gave me a clear run to the back of its head so shot two ended it. Although pleased to end the suffering I had to leave!

 

I attended the interview (and got the job) then returned to the estate and made contact with the keeper and estate owner. The land owner was pleased that I had done what I had and gave me the deer and access to retrieve it.

 

What a day!

 

Butchered today and checked the bullet damage. Very little damage! Marginal! I recovered no bullet from shot one. No spinal cord damage. It looks like the bullet turned south on contact with bone! The one to the head completely split the scull! The trauma of the first seemed to stop her and give the second shot.

The first shot also damaged a main artery. I yet again realised the value of practising shooting a rifle off hand, also fast reloading and shooting off hand!

Earlier when I did not get that fox in the morning I checked the zero, it was 1" left at 80yds! So I adjusted it and a good job too!

 

Now, if some want to bathe me in fire go ahead, I DON'T CARE! In my heart I did the right thing for this beast and lots of friends and family have benefited.

22wmr by the way is not a large deer rifle! I think in this case I was very very fortunate in effecting a clean dispatch at the range I did.

 

The pieced bone also had severely pierced the other haunch! I found evidence of contusion on her back. She could of been run into a fence, maybe by rogues with dogs!

Anyway, the snaps.

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I expect more deer have been shot with the humble rim fire than any other calibre. Your conscience is clear in my book and the right result. I wish more people were more honest about there shooting rather than worrying about the minority who disagree if it's not by the book.

 

Hats off to you underdog.

 

Andrew.

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