CVA Optima V2 Kill
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I finally took a mature whitetail buck with my CVA Optima V2 muzzle loader pistol. On November 18th I was hunting alone from a popup blind on property I had not hunted in two years. I had done a little scouting and found a couple of scrapes that were fresh.
I waited almost two weeks for the wind to be right for the spot and slipped in before daylight that morning. I carried a folding chait, my Optima V2 and a shooting stick and got setup.
About 7:58 am I caught movement to my left and saw the mature buck moving from my left to my right. I quickly placed my pistol on the shooting stick and waited for the buck to stop. He stopped at twenty five yards and dropped his head to try some corn I had put there a couple of days before. When he moved his right shoulder forward his heart was open for my shot and I took it.
He almost went down with the impact of the shot and then ran to his left digging hard and low as he left.
I quickly reloaded and sent my son a text telling him that I had just shot a good buck with my pistol. I told him that I was going to give the buck thirty minutes and then go look for him.
To make a long story short I found blood where he was standing when I shot him and followed it to the largest six point I have every seen in the wild.
I texted and then called my son and he came over to help me get him out of the woods. I took the photos of the deer where I found him but he took the photo of me with the buck.
The buck weighted 172 pounds and had a inside spread of 17 inches and a outside spread of 18.5 inches, which makes him my second widest buck. Not a bad buck for the part of North Carolina I hunt in.
The man who is going to mount him for me checked his teeth for his age and told me he was 3.5 years old.
I have killed seven deer in five seasons with this pistol and am glad to finally take a buck that is over 2.5 years old. [img]http://http://www.handgunhunt.com/photopost/data/500/75356901_1030230063986437_2139249581513244672[/img]
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Re: CVA Optima V2 Kill
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Re: CVA Optima V2 Kill
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11/30/2019 8:19 PM
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Re: CVA Optima V2 Kill
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Re: CVA Optima V2 Kill
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11/30/2019 9:43 PM
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It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but only 3 for proper trigger squeeze.
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Re: CVA Optima V2 Kill
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11/30/2019 10:45 PM
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I have 4 photos on the bragging board showing the buck and one with me in it. I can not get to a computer for now. Could someone add the photo to this topic? Thanks
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Re: CVA Optima V2 Kill
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12/01/2019 12:22 AM
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It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but only 3 for proper trigger squeeze.
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12/01/2019 12:52 AM
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That's outstanding. Congratulations! And at 172 lbs, you'll net a healthy supply of the purest protein there is!
The meat won't fry if the lead don't fly.
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Thanks KRal for adding the photos. The middle photo shows the exit wound not the entrance. I was in a ground blind and the deer was up hill from me so the exit wound was higher than the entrance which was low behind the right shoulder. I am shooting 85 grains of BH 209 measured by volume like black powder behind a 240 grain Thompson Center Cheap Shot which is a all lead saboted hollow point They shoot good groups in this gun at fifty yards. I have it sighted in one inch high at fifty yards. My thoughts with using a all lead bullet is that at the velocities from this pistol it would open up and do more damage than a jacket bullet would.
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Re: CVA Optima V2 Kill
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12/01/2019 1:32 AM
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Well done,and a very nice deer.
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Nice buck, those cheap shot bullets are great deer medicine
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Cool looking buck and great shot!
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Congratulations on a nice one!
It's not the gun, but the man behind it.
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That's awesome. Well done Sir!
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