Thread: Public land deer - 53 years ago.

Originally Posted by nor-west

I still like the. 222 story with the deer on the slip, Ruahines? Where you mate said it was to far for his .270 and you shot it and found your .222 shot went in the ear and you found the bullet on its tongue.

Thats true. Ruahines. The bullet went exactly into its ear hole, but we never found the bullet. Not sure where the story finding it on its tongue came from. It was around 400 yards. The last time I went past that slip was 13 January, 2017. I was 69. There was a deer on it and I pretended not to see it and walked straight past. Its a steep one.
I did get one near the Mangoira saddle though, and that was the last deer I shot in the Ruahines. Maybe I might get back up there this summer, I want to.

Here's that last one.



My little camp


And the slip that I shot the deer in the ear with my .222 on...
Interestingly it was a 9 pointer and because we were meat hunting I biffed the head into the scrub, but for those days it was pretty good (Orua rats we called them).