Originally Posted by BCLC
Originally Posted by CNC
I tracked one for a guy about 4 years ago just off the interstate along the river between Montgomery and Prattville……The guy was sitting with his girlfriend and her .243 one morning when just after daybreak “a big one”, as he described it, walked out of the woodline crossing the field broadside at about 75 yards headed to the river……He told his girlfriend to shoot it but she said she couldn’t find it in her scope…..Meanwhile, the deer is steadily walking across the field toward the river……He said he told her to shoot about three more times before finally taking the gun from her and then tries to Texas heart shoot the buck before it walks into the woods…..We tracked it up the river nearly to golf course before having to call it off. All I’m saying is……I bet if that guy could go back and do it over again he would have something else in his hands besides a .243… grin …. Just sayin. smile


I’ll have to remember that next time I wanna shoot one in the arsehole 🤣🤣🤣

There’s no telling what you see as a tracker. Nearly every 243 horror story I’ve heard reads a lot like that one. It’s usually either a woman or a youth hunter with very little trigger time that truth be known has no business trying to kill a deer BUT uncle daddy boyfriend buys them a low recoil gun and takes them hunting anyway. Deer walks out and either the Tasco scope fogs up or the shakes kick in or maybe they take too long putting the iPad down and by the time they’re ready to shoot the angle is less than optimum, the shot is rushed, results sucketh. Speed dial *47 call the tracker….stupid 243 ain’t worth chit.



Yessa sounds about right. My boy will be using a 308 or 7mm08 carbine for his first. Vortex scope MINIMUM.

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