Posted By: neilh
Iowa Buck - 12/25/2010 5:12 PM
New member; 8th handgun deer. S&W 500. Christmas eve. Blinding snow storm.
In Iowa handguns (no "rifle" rounds) are permitted during the late muzzle loader season. I hunt public ground that is over-crowded during the regular seasons, but apparently they missed this guy!
Posted By: Deerstalker
Re: Iowa Buck - 12/25/2010 5:47 PM
Sweet! Good look'in deer..
Posted By: KRal
Re: Iowa Buck - 12/25/2010 5:56 PM
Welcome to HH and Congrats on a very fine deer!
Posted By: Larry in SD
Re: Iowa Buck - 12/25/2010 7:00 PM
Congrats on a nice looking buck.
Larry
Posted By: 500WE
Re: Iowa Buck - 12/25/2010 10:59 PM
Very nice! Congratulations.
Posted By: Roger in NC
Re: Iowa Buck - 12/26/2010 12:57 AM
Nice buck! Way to hang in there during bad weather.
Posted By: Shortgun
Re: Iowa Buck - 12/26/2010 1:04 AM
Great deer there, Any deer taken with a handgun is a great deer to me!!
Iowa is on my bucket list and hope to be sooner than later.
Welcome to HH.
Shortgun
HHI # 8338
Neil, Welcome to HHM and congrats on a fine Iowa whitetail.
Posted By: Russell
Re: Iowa Buck - 12/26/2010 2:28 AM
Welcome and congrats on the nice buck.
Posted By: pab1
Re: Iowa Buck - 12/26/2010 6:20 AM
Congrats and welcome to the site!
Nice deer. That looks like a 500 Hunter. What kind of scope? I had the same set up with a Leupold 2x8 on it. Did you use shooting sticks,or a rest? What was the range? Thanks! - Ted
Posted By: neilh
Re: Iowa Buck - 12/27/2010 5:24 PM
I use a Nikon fixed 2x. Wider field and quicker acquisition, I think. (I used to bleed Leupold until I tried this one.) I use a Stony Point pole cat single stick rest. Sitting on a small folding chair; he never saw me.
I didn't range, but guess about 50 yards. Right through the heart - immediate drop. Heavy underbrush, so had to follow through the scope while watching ahead looking for an opening to "thread the needle". Those are always some tense moments.
I use a .500 Remington 385gr CLHP over 40.0gr H110. Used that for years. I actually recovered one once and if I can find the pics I will post.
Posted By: Boartuff
Re: Iowa Buck - 12/28/2010 5:00 PM
WTG! Glad for you they missed him!
Posted By: JD1948
Re: Iowa Buck - 12/30/2010 8:46 PM
Congrats fellow Iowan. It was really snowing that afternoon.
