Took my Girlfriends son hunting this afternoon and he scored. I had fixed up a Brazilian 7x57 carbine for him back in the summer and he had practiced with some
cast bullet reloads till he could hit gallon milk jugs filled with water placed at 100 yards. He didn't know what I was doing but I had asked him about the
rifle stuff like did he like it, did he think it would take a deer etc. He was always really hyped up about it so I gave it to him for his 13th birthday which
was Nov. 2. So, on the last evening of youth days season here he got three shots, all offhand, at a deer that was about 65 yards away. The last shot connected
and broke it's spine. Might have been a bit underpowered but we will worry about it later, he was shooting 150 grain Lyman cast bullets backed by 20 grains
of IMR-4227. He loaded the ammo himself with me watching. Not a hot load but it took the deer and it doesn't leave him beat senseless. He is just 13 and
will grow into full power stuff. He's on cloud 9 and I'm really proud of him. Muzzleloader season starts tomorrow and we don't have any more
freezer space. 
