Backyard deer
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We had a round of "blue tongue" in Alabama but it has faded away. There are two counties in North Alabama that have CWD problems. I really don't understand the use of "buffer" counties. Either they have it or they don't. What good is a buffer county? Do they have check points that the deer go through and make them wear masks and take CWD shots? People were baiting when it was illegal and now that they made it legal ( for a nominal government fee of course) it has only made it worse. Deer gathered up eating from the same corn pile cause it to be passed from one to the other. You can't have it both ways, bait and have CWD or don't and have to actually hunt instead of just shoot something. I'm not exactly against baiting but I'm not naïve enough to call it hunting. It's just shooting deer. You very rarely see deer like the two pictured above out in a field eating out of a corn pile. Maybe, just maybe, out there chasing does during the rut. I'm old, I don't get up in trees anymore but I call it what it is " shooting." If somebody ask me if I'm going hunting and I am going to go sit on a bait pile I tell them no I'm not going hunting, I'm going to shoot a doe, and that's what it is. I wish I could go hunt like I use to but everything changes. I can go sit over a pile of corn and shoot a doe even with a case of toeicide and a Frankenstein boot on.
Chronic Wasting Disease Management Zones
The CWD Management Zone (CMZ) includes all of Lauderdale and Colbert Counties. Within the CMZ, the High-Risk Zone (HRZ) includes Lauderdale County and the portion of Colbert County with the following boundaries: beginning at the intersection of the Tennessee River and the Alabama/Mississippi State line, south along the Alabama/Mississippi State line to US Hwy. 72; east along US Hwy. 72 to US Hwy. 72 ALT; east along US Hwy. 72 ALT to the Colbert County/Lawrence County line; north along the Colbert County/Lawrence County line to the Tennessee River; west along the Tennessee River ending at the Alabama/Mississippi State line. Within the CMZ, the Buffer Zone (BZ) includes those portions of Colbert County with the following boundaries: beginning at the intersection of the Alabama/Mississippi State line and US Hwy. 72, south along the Alabama/Mississippi State line to the Colbert County/Franklin County line; east along the Colbert County/ Franklin County line to the Colbert County/Lawrence County line; north along the Colbert County/Lawrence County line to US Hwy. 72 ALT; west along US Hwy. 72 ALT to US Hwy. 72; west along US Hwy. 72 ending at the Alabama/Mississippi State line.Whacked my first deer with the 284 Win. YEEESSSSHHH what a MESS !!! Shot was 125 yards, 139 grain Hornady SST bullets at around 2700 fps. To say the bullet expanded ? A major understatement.
Through both shoulders, hit the heart, quarter size exit hole, But blew the friggin shoulders to hell !! Threw them both away, Shit you not. Looks like someone stuck a hand grenade in the body. This is the weirdest wound I've ever seen. Shattered the front leg bones on both sides, Bloody mess everything around it. Lost damn near the whole fore quarter on the deer.
AND the damn thing ran about 50 yards ??? Well, pushed itself with it's rear legs anyway, No blood until the last 10 feet, and of course it was dark.
Think I'll have to try some other bullets, sure as hell didn't like the performance of the SST's. Have some Speer 145 grain soft point boat tails, see what they do.
Through both shoulders, hit the heart, quarter size exit hole, But blew the friggin shoulders to hell !! Threw them both away, Shit you not. Looks like someone stuck a hand grenade in the body. This is the weirdest wound I've ever seen. Shattered the front leg bones on both sides, Bloody mess everything around it. Lost damn near the whole fore quarter on the deer.
AND the damn thing ran about 50 yards ??? Well, pushed itself with it's rear legs anyway, No blood until the last 10 feet, and of course it was dark.
Think I'll have to try some other bullets, sure as hell didn't like the performance of the SST's. Have some Speer 145 grain soft point boat tails, see what they do.
Down by the 100yd target. We came in from the funeral ( Vanessa, my sister in laws mother died Tuesday, Phillips wife) and Linda came and told me while I was changing from my church---funeral clothes, that there were 5 deer down by the 100yd target. I went out on the porch with the 25-06 and got the biggest doe in the bunch. That damn thing was heavy for a one legged man to drag up hill. She went about 20-25 yds into the kudzu patch and fell over. You can't tell it from the picture but that was the entrance and she was angling away uphill. The bullet came out right behind the front shoulder on the off side. Didn't hit the stomach and blew the lungs to shreds. It missed the heart though. I will say one thing, Linda has gotten faster at gutting these things. She got this one gutted, took the guts off in the tractor and hung the doe up in the backyard before dark. Tomorrow she just has to get it skinned and quartered and into the fridge before lunch. It's 22 tonight but will be 42 by 1pm tomorrow.
