Chris_in_Idaho
WKR
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- Aug 20, 2021
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Got my first RSS kill. Tiny button buck at 130 yards. He was quartering away to the left and was lower than me but facing uphill so that I could see the top of his back. That makes the shot placement look really high but the bullet traveled downward and diagonally through on a path that would have exited just in front of the off side shoulder, but didn't exit.
He dropped like a bag of rocks, kinda thrashed for 30 seconds and then was done. The way he went down I think a fragment must have hit his spine, but I couldn't feel any damage when I removed the backstraps (gutless method).
With you all shooting bears, moose and other gigantic critters this little guy doesn't really offer any new data for the thread, but I wanted to share it. I'm an adult onset hunter that usually gets skunked so I have no shame admitting I was stoked to get this little button buck.
He dropped like a bag of rocks, kinda thrashed for 30 seconds and then was done. The way he went down I think a fragment must have hit his spine, but I couldn't feel any damage when I removed the backstraps (gutless method).
With you all shooting bears, moose and other gigantic critters this little guy doesn't really offer any new data for the thread, but I wanted to share it. I'm an adult onset hunter that usually gets skunked so I have no shame admitting I was stoked to get this little button buck.