140g bullet, was using Remington factory rounds- their Premier version. I was using scent and had rattled for 3 minutes just before 8. Then I got hungry and decided to eat a sandwich. I was eating and watching and looked 90 degrees to my left through some trees and saw an ear and an antler.
In the next second and a half the following happen:
-will he come into the open or travel the edge of the drop-off to the creek? Decided he would not come into the open.
-Saw his shoulder for a shot.
-Set down my sandwich and picked up my rifle. Rifle was on my right, deer was to the left!
-As I put the rifle up I no longer could see any of his head but I could still see his shoulder!
-BOOM, dropped like a stack of potatoes!
Happened so fast I never even got an adrenaline rush!
He was only about 35 yards away.
I do love hunting!
-Ed