Third Times a Charm
By Clyde Murphy
It is the cold morning after Thanksgiving day, 1998. 6:30AM my friend
Chris and I are walking to our stands, over looking a 15 acre clear cut with
2 green fields in opposite corners. He takes the left corner and I take
the right, my field being closer to the road. About the time I get sat
down in my stand, I hear Chris's Remington 7600 Pump 6MM sound off, BANG one
shot. Then I see this buck come running across the clear cut at 200 yards. I
shoulder my Remington 700 243 and sound off a shot while the deer is
running, he keeps running I squeeze off another round, and he stops,
facing dead away from me, with his tail standing straight up. I calm, down
bolt another one in, hold on the tip of his tail, and pull the trigger.
BOOM he drops like a lightning bolt hit him! Chris's shot misses about three
inches high, we checked his zero that afternoon, and while he was here in
Alabama he managed to harvest a nice 115 pound doe after we got his gun
straighted out. My 100Gr. Nolser Partrition entered at the base of his tail and
traveled up his body through his lungs and out his backbone, at the
base of his neck. It was 217 steps from my stand. The buck had a small rack
at 13 inches, but he weighed in at 227 pounds a HUGE bodied deer for this
part of Alabama where average is about 180 pounds. Whoever says a 243. Is not
enough deer medicine should talk to this deer.
Clyde Murphy
