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My son got his first deer over Thanksgiving. He is ready to get some more too. He used my pre 64 Winchester Model 70 .308

Well done, well done, and great tradition

The gun used for this hunt is a 12 bore Holloway & Co. heavy Fowler. 30” full choked barrels. Original 2 3/4” chambers, 1 1/4 Oz proofed. It patterns both barrels at 83% at 40 yrds using 1 1/8 Oz bismuth #5’s at a comfy 1200 fps.

Love those Doc Calls, Dustin. I used mine to good effect last week.

Brad,
They’re my most used and my #1 most favorite calls. I doubt anyone here knows what a “Doc call” is. I’ve got all sorts of calls, some much more expensive than these were… I always seem to go back to my Docs. I’m going on 20+ years with these two.

Dustin

Very nice. If you load your own Bi, what is your recipe, if you don't mind sharing. I use 1 1/4 oz of Bi #5 for ducks and pheasants, launched out of Winchester AA hulls and wads with 26.7 gr of Longshot.

I have a couple of loads that I use. The load I took these ducks with is as follows:

Fed Gold Medal hull
Ched. 209
21.6 grns Win. Super Handicap
WAA12 wad
1 1/8 Oz.
1200 fps @ 6900 psi

Congrats to the young fella, but I'm sure glad my Dad didn't smear deer blood all over my face when I killed my first deer. The tradition in my family was, if you missed a deer or lost one by wounding it, you would get your shirt-tail cut off. I still feel bad about the one deer I hit and knocked down, but lost while trailing it due to wind driven snow quickly covering the tracks and blood trail. I was hunting alone, so kept my hunting shirt tail intact.


Unfortunately, not so great a tradition these days due to Lyme disease and other blood-borne pathogens that can be in deer blood. For many years, I hog-dressed my deer bare-handed, and just washed my hands with snow or in a nearby creek, before rolling my sleeves down and putting my hunting coat back on. Now I carry a couple pair of disposable nitrile gloves to do the chore, and try not to puncture them with a bone fragment. Lot's of sources agree:

https://www.letsgohunting.org/resou...hy-wear-gloves-when-field-dressing-game/

I've sued WSH, but not much and not for Bi. Good to hear though. That looks like a perfect load with that pressure and velocity.

I am not a lawyer, but I am probably dyslexic and arguably the world's worst typist. Made me chuckle.