Well I finally got one down this evening. Told the wife I could do just as well in the tree stand as sitting in front of the TV. So, I went down to the corner of my field and got up in the stand. About an hour later while I was playing Freecell on my phone, I looked up and a deer(thought it was a doe) was right under the feeder. I was watching tree lines on the left and rear of the feeders where the deer and turkeys usually come out, but this one must have come from another direction. Deer sometimes seem to pop up out of the ground like a darn mushroom. You look away and look back, and there stands a deer. Spooky!!
At any rate I primed my rifle and went for a prop on the rail of the ladder stand. Had to freeze 4 times as it looked up at me, but the wind was in my favor. Maybe it was because I had treated my clothes with UV killer, and I wasn't as bright to the deer. I also skirted my stand with camo burlap to block more movement. Who knows, but he didn't run if I waited to move until he dropped his head. Anyway I slowly got an elbow on the rail as he turned sideways, and then I let the big dog bark. At 40yds(measured) the .590 ball backed by 90gr. of 2F hit him like a ton of bricks. The deer was slightly quartering away from me. The downward angled ball didn't pass through but entered about 2 ribs forward and went through a rib and both lungs before getting lost in the internals.. Because it dumped all the foot-pounds of energy in the animal, it hammered him right in his tracks. No tracking needed. Turns out that what I thought was a doe turned out to be a good-sized buck with tiny 1" spikes well above the hairline but almost invisible in the shade at 40yds.
The rifle is one of those I won in the Rock Island auction. It was built in the 1990s by Clay Smith. A .60cal. with a 38" swamped barrel(Getz?) and Chambers/L&R jaeger lock. It is a sort of Moravian/Christian Springs looking style. For more pics of the rifle look in Oct. this year.
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