Thread: The ‘controversial.222’

Originally Posted by XR500

Did most of my shooting in my formative shooting days with a trebbly. As others have said, the ability to go out shooting hare, rabbits and magpies at decent ranges whenever you felt like it made for an awfully big looking deer at 2 hundy when you went out after bigger game.

But shot placement is everything. I vividly remember crawling through a tunnel of gnarly supplejack and vines towards a sika stag going off his nut. He shut up as I was sneaking towards him, and looked up to see him 5m away in the same tunnel crawling towards me!!! pointed the bang stick at his chest and pulled the trigger. He spun around and went 20m, then began coughing violently, then crashed off. Came across a pool of several litres of blood, so continued searching knowing he would be close. 2 hours later I had not found him. Came back the next day with the dog and still no luck. 3 years later a mate came across that same 7 pointer 800m away from where I had shot it. Tough tough buggers. Shot placement is everything with a .22 cal

@XR500 after that incident, what would you do differently if you were faced with the same situation?

Again, in my youth EVERY deer I saw had to be got. Back then they were worth$$, and the chest shot ones would go in the freezer for feeding the family. Nowadays I am secure enough to let them go, knowing that a better opportunity will be along soon.