Successful opening day deer hunt with my G20

[jws10mm]

I went out to my stand this afternoon armed with my G20 with a 6 inch hunting barrel loaded with 8 Double Tap 200 grain XTP's and hoping for a little luck on this extremely wet and rainy Michigan firearms opener. After sitting in the rain for close to an hour I noticed a doe coming close and not too far behind was a nice 10 pt buck. I grunted him in to within 10 yds of my stand and took him with a spine shot and he dropped instantly. This is the biggest buck I've taken, (I'm guessing he scores around 110-120) and the first with a handgun. I'm extremely impressed with the Double Tap 200 grain loadings and I'm glad to have finally tested them out!

[G20man32904]

WHOOAAA!!
NICE!!
Congrats

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[jws10mm]

Thanks. I really need to get a digital camera so I could post some pics. ^2

[Rawhide20]

Congrats Bud! That's great!

So you used a G20 w/ a 6 inch barrel, but it had the standard 5" slide? What kind of increase in accuracy did the hunting barrel give over the regular 5". Any plans to go for boar or some other critter?

RH

[ColoradoGlocker]

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[jws10mm]

The six inch barrel on the standard slide gives you some extra velocity and since the sight radius stays the same it dosen't really change the accuracy that much. I'd love to take my G20 wild boar hunting if there were some here in Michigan.

[bk30]

congrats jws10mm! Nice shooting and grunting ;)

I'm intending to do the same as you as soon as I get my G20-21L together.

bk

[Timotheous46]

JWS10mm,

Come on over to the Midland Michigan area for boar. The local paper has had a series of articles about some Russian boars that got loose a few years ago from a hunting reserve. The DNR is asking anyone out hunting to go ahead and shoot any that you come apon. Some poor guy just hit one near Alger on I-75.

Tim