A shot I might not have tried if I'd had time to consider it:
A whitetail doe got up under foot and ran straight away, offering no shot for my Hawken replica and it's .50 round ball. She ran down the trail with me riding her with the sights. She jumped a downed tree at about 40 yards and as she flattened out at the peak of her jump still moving straight away from me), I held below her and touched it off.
The ball caught her in the front part of the belly, up and forward across the top of the heart, one lung, and came to rest in the front tip of the backstrap where it hides under the shoulder. The angle she was coming down at made it look like I was laying on the ground under her when I shot...lol
Lucky? Good? Maybe both, but it worked.
A whitetail doe got up under foot and ran straight away, offering no shot for my Hawken replica and it's .50 round ball. She ran down the trail with me riding her with the sights. She jumped a downed tree at about 40 yards and as she flattened out at the peak of her jump still moving straight away from me), I held below her and touched it off.
The ball caught her in the front part of the belly, up and forward across the top of the heart, one lung, and came to rest in the front tip of the backstrap where it hides under the shoulder. The angle she was coming down at made it look like I was laying on the ground under her when I shot...lol
Lucky? Good? Maybe both, but it worked.