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March 2000 Winner:
Nolan Nesbit
This 7 pointer was killed near Sparta, Georgia, opening
week of the 1999 season.
He had chased two does by just
after daylight. Then he returned 45 minutes later and presented a walking
broadside shot at 65 yards. He took the bullet squarely through the
lungs and ran 30 yards.
The rifle is an Encore with a 24" Bullberry
barrel in .280 Rem. The scope is a Leupold 2x7.
It was loaded with a 139
gr. Hornady SP, chronographed at 2910 fps. This was the second buck
for this rifle. This is my sixth year of hunting almost exclusively
with single shots. The first thing everyone asks when they see
the one-shooter is "How fast can you reload?" I always tell them that
a .280 (or 45-70 or .270) is plenty big enough to kill a whitetail
with one shot. Why would I want to shoot him twice?
Then they always say
"What if you miss?" I have to explain that I've never missed a deer;
don't even know what the word means; never even heard the word before;
not in the vocabulary.
If I happen to hit a
tree instead of the deer, that's what single shot shooters call a
'warning shot'.
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