Hunting career high point. 175yard shot with S&W 629!!!

Can you consistently hit the kill zone at 175yard.? If so good shooting. It wouldn't be a issue here because hunting with a handgun is illegal.
There is also a minimum caliber and muzzle energy allowed for hunting deer.

For all deer of any species - a minimum calibre of .236 inches, a minimum bullet weight of 100 grains and minimum muzzle energy of 1,700 foot pounds is the legal requirement.

Advice given by the BASC - The British Association for Shooting and Conservation


Although deer are comparatively large animals, the vital areas for clean kills are small. No one should consider stalking unless they can consistently shoot a group of three shots within a 10cm target at 100m.
 
No handgun hunting??? Even California lets you handgun hunt and that is saying alot. That's a shame. Your missing out on a great thrill, especially if your a Bowhunter and like a challenge when you pick up a gun to hunt with.
It wouldn't be a issue here because hunting with a handgun is illegal.
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missing out on a great thrill, especially if your a Bowhunter and like a challenge when you pick up a gun to hunt with.
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Caint do that either. In almost every European country bowhunting is forbidden.
the UK law which applies to England, Northern Ireland Scotland and Wales.
 
Msytro, I'm a little surprised that it took you until post #26 to tell some people nicely to kiss off.:) Nice shot. Practice and skill always show.
 
ROFL...Great, you made me spit my beer.

Oh no he di'int........
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Mystro said:
Big doe. About 175 lbs.
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You talking live weight or field dressed? Even live, that would be a big, big doe.

I'm in Central NY and I hunt in a program on Cornell University owned property and the deer management is controlled by Cornell.

Every deer killed in the program has to be weighed. From 2008 through 2011, 226 doe have been killed in the program. The last I knew, which was after the 2011 season but not including the 2012 season, I had killed the heaviest doe in the program. She was HUGE. Far and away the biggest doe I've ever killed or even seen.

She weighed 149 pounds, field dressed.

Between myself and the other guys I hunt with, we have killed 9 or 10 doe. Only one other has been over 110 pounds and that one was 119, the average is almost exactly 100 pounds. These are adult, mature deer I'm counting, not fawns.

Last year, I shot the biggest buck I've ever killed:

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He weighed...

149 pounds, field dressed.
 
An excellent shot, indeed, congratulations!

Most folks don't realize a good revolver and load coupled with sufficient practice are fully capable of such long shots. I won a "long range" revolver side match a few years ago by putting 5 for 5 on a 12" square plate at 85 yards in under ten seconds with an 8 3/8" Interarms Virginian Dragoon .44 mag and reduced loads - stock iron sights, no scope.

I took this little 3x3 mulie a couple hundred yards from my house in 2006 with a Freedom Arms M555 .50AE topped with a 2x Leupold scope at a lased 145 yards.

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The rest of the story is he was grazing directly away from me, so I laid down prone with the FA across a stump, and whistled. He didn't turn but looked over his shoulder toward me giving me nothing but a head shot. I had shot this revolver quite a bit out to 150 yards and felt confident I could do it. I squeezed the shot off and put a 350 grain cast WFNGC bullet up the right nostril.
I killed a cow elk the same season with a S&W .500 mag topped with a 4x Leupold and using the same bullet at about the same range as the OP - body shot though, not a head shot. ;)
 
One fact to consider is that handgun bullets have very low sectional density and ballistic coefficient .They slow down quickly and at 200 yds they are no longer "magnums" . The other factor is the bullet drop. These factors must be understood well to get a deer at long range . Lots of practice in silhouette matches it the way !
Try not to depend on luck.
 
Nice buck Brian.....The doe was 175lbs on the hoof. We have a very large breed of deer in the North Central part of Pa. It's freaky because some are normal size whitetail but some have their entire body proportions enlarged to Northern Canadian deer size.
My largest buck on my wall is a 9 point that dressed out at a honest measured 230lbs. Its neck measurement right under the chin is 25". An absolute hog. I have a picture on top of him removing the drag rope and I look like I am on top of a horse. I am 6' 2" 205lbs and I look small next to this deer. Out of my entire family with generations of deer hunting, no one has seen a bigger body and our local taxidermy has never seen a whitetail body this big in his 30yrs of practice. The doe I just shot was bigger than most nice bucks I have seen on my hill this year. Largest doe I have ever seen. You never know what size deer you will see on the Mt. and that's what makes it exciting.
 
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Originally here in NY we had the Northern White Tail .At a time when deer in the state were greatly reduced ,Virginia White Tails were intoduced. So we often have Northern/Virginia cross. It's probably like the PA, NY study recently that showed that 20 % of the coyotes have wolf genes ! That's what causes the 70 lb coyotes we see in the east.
I wish I had weighed my largest Sullivan Co deer ,it must have been at least 200 lbs live weight .I got steaks from the shoulder. :D
 
nice shooting... personally, I've never shot handgun at a deer over around 75 yards... yet... but you seem to have a handle on what you're doing... I've pretty much handgun hunted the last several years... If I want to "go up north" I can get into rifle zone, if I hunt local, I'm in shotgun zone, but we can use a handgun in the shotgun zone... I'll admit, I've never shot a deer with a revolver, but I almost exclusively use a Contender when hunting locally... my FIL, shot a nice doe in WI, 15 years ago, with a Dan Wesson 357 Super Mag, with a Luepold 4X scope on it, that I currently own... so I may have to try my luck with the ol Dan some year...

BTW... my current deer hunting rig, is a 10" custom 45 Colt barrel on a Contender, with Williams fiber optic sites... I shoot a pretty hot load, with those XTP's & have a load I can put 3 shots touching at 75 yards with a field rest... get about 3/4" expansion out of the 45 Colt XTP
 
No handgun hunting??? Even California lets you handgun hunt and that is saying alot. That's a shame. Your missing out on a great thrill, especially if your a Bowhunter and like a challenge when you pick up a gun to hunt with.
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No handgun hunting here in NJ....or rifle for that matter. Just muzzle loaders and shotgun. In fact even taking your handgun into the woods with you for ANY reason is a felony...unless you both own and reside on said piece of land.


Awesome kill though. I was shooting a friends .41 mag at 200yards a while back just for giggles. Out of 2 cylinders I only hit the man sized target 2 times :o
 
My biggest bucks come from Sulivan County. I have ground there near Laporte. This doe was shot on the border of Clinton and Lycoming county. Sulivan county is where I shot my 240lbs 9point with a 25" measurement under the chin. Monster.
 
Mystro. I'm in Sullivan Co NY not Sullivan Co PA :) I'm on the NY/PA border where I have watched deer and bear swim across the river , or walk across the bridge to keep dry !:D
 
The offical meat report is: 55lbs of venison baloney. This is before I add the pork. My doe from archery yelded 41 lbs of venison and we are down to out last 3 sticks. I am very picky and throw away all junk meat. Some people use their junk meat in baloney but our venison is top quality, low in fat and never gamie. For half the batch of baloney, I am adding a special milled cheddar that is designed for this purpose with a high melting point. If you like the beef and cheddar sticks, you will love this venison combo of baloney.
 
Nice one Mystro!

That is what I aspire to.

I think I get where you are coming from. I'm sure there was a time when you'd have passed on that shot - even in the same conditions. But this time, I have to think, you felt you were ready. And while definitely pushing the limits, def. not taking a pot shot; everything calculated in the instant before you squeezed off. A similar shot for me right now would be less than half that distance.
...but I'm practicing!

-F
 
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