Deer Hunt

[Stephen Borud]

My son and I got the great honor to hunt on Orvilles Ranch this weekend. This was my sons first deer hunt, first kill with a Sharps, and the first kill with this gun. I had this rifle built for my wife and boy's. It's a #3 Sporter with h a 13" pull and a 28" standard weight barrel in a 50 1 3/4. It has a Orville paper patch chamber and is a real shooter. My son casted the bullets for this gun out of pure lead. They weighed in at 425 grains.

Back to the hunting details. Kaleb had a couple shots the day before and just couldn't connect. He might of had deer fever a little bit, but I can tell you he was no where near as nervous as he was last year hunting antelope. Maturity is catching up with him.

We started out this particular morning out with boundless ambition. We spotted a few deer on the side of the canyon and decided to make a stalk on them. As we went down the canyon to make our stock, we came across four does. I told Kaleb to hold at six o'clock on the lead doe, and take your time. He took a few deep breaths, cocked the hammer back and set the rear trigger, slowly he pulled the front trigger, BOOM! A clean miss. He ejected the shell and slid another one in the chamber. Three of the does took off, the last doe stepped out behind some sage brush to have one last look. BOOM, the billet connected. She jumped and made it 10 feet before going down.

Boy were we excited, I think I was a little more than he! We went down to the creek bottom and soaked the moment up. It is such a blessing to be able to mentor my son. We gutted his doe, cut the loins out and headed to the cabin to eat breakfast. Deer loin for breakfast is hard to beat. After breakfast we went down and halfed his doe out and hung it up in the trees.

We fished for our supper that afternoon while looking for deer. Fishing was on the rough side but the ones we kept were delicious.

Sunday morning broke with a beautiful sunrise and calm conditions. We headed back down the canyon to look for deer. We saw a few but they were across the creek in another unit that was closed already. I told Kaleb to go ahead and do some fishing while I looked for deer. He fished for about an hour and caught a few fish. I told him we needed to move down the creek a ways to some new water. As we moved down the creek I was looking for deer. We walked about a 150 yards when we came around a corner along the edge of the canyon. There stood the four does from earlier in the morning, but this time they were on the right side of the creek to hunt. The does started to run up the side of the canyon. I brought the 50 1 3/4" up and waited. The does stopped behind a rock and looked at us. All I could see was their heads and big ears. A few moment later the lead doe stepped out from behind the rock and right behind some brush. I shouldered the rifle and waited. As soon as she stepped out I pulled the trigger. The bullet thumped the doe with authority. She put her head down and made a quick 15 foot burst before folding up. The pure lead bullet destroyed her lower heart.

We are blessed

SB

[Don McDowell]

That's a great experience. My hat's of to you and your boys.

[Rowdy Rick]

Stephen,

Good job all! Great story!

Rick

[Stephen Borud]

Thanks Rick and Don.

SB

[Kurt]

Well done Stephen!