Big TN doe down!! Hornady FPB!
11-02-2008, 05:57 AM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2005
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RE: Big TN doe down!! Hornady FPB!
ORIGINAL: brushbustin
Today is opening day in TN for our muzzleloader season.Got in and set up this morning about 45 mins before day light and while waiting for daylight a dang owl tried to fly in the ground blind with me,I yelled out loud a little,it scared the crap out of me!Daylight came and at about 7:30 1 doe cross in front of me,to far 10 mins later another doe to far,and another 10 mins another doe,all too far to shoot at,about 140 yds ranged.I felt that I would get a closer shot.At about 9:30 this doe steps out at about 100 yds and starts walking toward me,and I let her to to about 60 yds and I say thats close enough!And let my ol kodiak speak!Smoke flys and when it clears I see her running back the way she came with her tail up.I think to myself,there is no way i missed her.I get out of my blind,and go and look,feeling pretty discouraged,I find blood and say to myself,we got a doe down!So i go back to my blind and grab my kodiak and pick up the trail.It was a very good blood trail,she ran problly 40 yds and piled up.I shot her with the new Hornady FPB bullet and 2 triple seven pellets!The hole wasn't nothing to brag about,but I got a complete pass thru and it did give me a good blood trail to follow,so im happy![img]http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/">
Today is opening day in TN for our muzzleloader season.Got in and set up this morning about 45 mins before day light and while waiting for daylight a dang owl tried to fly in the ground blind with me,I yelled out loud a little,it scared the crap out of me!Daylight came and at about 7:30 1 doe cross in front of me,to far 10 mins later another doe to far,and another 10 mins another doe,all too far to shoot at,about 140 yds ranged.I felt that I would get a closer shot.At about 9:30 this doe steps out at about 100 yds and starts walking toward me,and I let her to to about 60 yds and I say thats close enough!And let my ol kodiak speak!Smoke flys and when it clears I see her running back the way she came with her tail up.I think to myself,there is no way i missed her.I get out of my blind,and go and look,feeling pretty discouraged,I find blood and say to myself,we got a doe down!So i go back to my blind and grab my kodiak and pick up the trail.It was a very good blood trail,she ran problly 40 yds and piled up.I shot her with the new Hornady FPB bullet and 2 triple seven pellets!The hole wasn't nothing to brag about,but I got a complete pass thru and it did give me a good blood trail to follow,so im happy![img]http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/">
11-02-2008, 08:38 AM
#14
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Nov 2005
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RE: Big TN doe down!! Hornady FPB!
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Yes I have used them, I bought 50 when they first came out, I believe they are one of the best conical I have tried for accuracy, I got groups under 1.5 inches at 100yd with all my trial loads I tried 90 100 and 110 gr the 100gr load grouped the best in both the Omega and the Triumph. { Since my wife had a total knee replacement and I have been taking care of her I missed the muzzle loading season} I did manage to take on nice boar with them while I was trying them out, using a 100gr and the Triumph shot running away going in under the short ribs came out through the opposite front shoulder [hit bone and made a real mess of it, I am ashamed of myself ] so the exit while being large really don't mean much the entrance hole was just the size of the bullet as it should be. If I draw an elk license I will use the for that as for a majority of deer hunting I will keep on using the 250 gr Gold Dot or if I might need long range the 250 gr SW, but the FPB is an excellent bullet and I like it for boar in the thickets. Lee
Yes I have used them, I bought 50 when they first came out, I believe they are one of the best conical I have tried for accuracy, I got groups under 1.5 inches at 100yd with all my trial loads I tried 90 100 and 110 gr the 100gr load grouped the best in both the Omega and the Triumph. { Since my wife had a total knee replacement and I have been taking care of her I missed the muzzle loading season} I did manage to take on nice boar with them while I was trying them out, using a 100gr and the Triumph shot running away going in under the short ribs came out through the opposite front shoulder [hit bone and made a real mess of it, I am ashamed of myself ] so the exit while being large really don't mean much the entrance hole was just the size of the bullet as it should be. If I draw an elk license I will use the for that as for a majority of deer hunting I will keep on using the 250 gr Gold Dot or if I might need long range the 250 gr SW, but the FPB is an excellent bullet and I like it for boar in the thickets. Lee
11-02-2008, 09:21 AM
#15
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Hayes, Va.
Posts: 2,332
RE: Big TN doe down!! Hornady FPB!
ORIGINAL: Wiggy
Glad you did good big guy.
I got out at 5:30am and heard deer milling around for probably half an hour. 15 minutes before shooting light, something spooked them and they ran off. I didn't see a darn thing all day after that.
Congrats again, she looks real good!!!
Glad you did good big guy.
I got out at 5:30am and heard deer milling around for probably half an hour. 15 minutes before shooting light, something spooked them and they ran off. I didn't see a darn thing all day after that.
Congrats again, she looks real good!!!
Nice deer there pard. That will be some great table fair.
