by TobyBenoit on Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:27 am
I kill my share of them song dogs, but I only ever tapped one with a broadhead. He came strolling down an old railroad bed past my treestand while I was deer huntig and I made it to full draw and followed him with my pin until he hit fifteen yards and I made a sort of kissing sound with my mouth and he stopped in his tracks.
As soon as he stopped I punched the trigger and was amazed at how fast them jokers can jump the string. I got him, but I was aiming at his right shoulder at fifteen yards with an arrow flying 280+fps and he made a complete 180 degree turn to get away when the arrow struck him in the left ham and severed the femoral arteries on the pass thru.
Chicken, my little sister, called one in with her voice a week before Christmas. She heard him calling and started mimmicking his kippering and the sumvagun ran right in to her. It was a young male and she popped another just last week sniffing around the goat shed with a load of #6's, but didn't recover it, just peppered it good.
I've got a couple of Rod Haydels cottontail squallers (Haydel's Game Calls) that have brought a fair number of them into range of my little .22Hornet. A .40grain ballistic tip does a very nice job on them without much pelt damage at all.