A few misses ... and a deer.

[Don.M]

Everyone posts about their hits, I figured I'd post about my misses too.

Went to my dad's after work and as I was walking to the backyard to the deck, I saw a fat one sitting about 15 feet away. Brought the rifle up and fired ... clean miss. The little bugger was right next to his hole too and dove right in-gone. All my fault, I forgot to take into account that my rifle is sighted to 20 yards ...oops.

The second one was a LITTLE less my fault, but not by much. This one was about the same distance away and half hidden by brush-all I could see was his melon sticking out. I aimed where I thought his body was ... wrong. What I thought was the body was just the shadow of a leaf. His body was to the right, and I fired to the left...of course. Another clean miss. Oh well, there's always tomorrow.

The highlight of today's "hunt" was while I was standing still on the deck, a doe walked out from between the houses, stopped about 10 feet from me and we stared at each other for a few minutes before she swished her tail and walked into the next yard to graze. Beautiful animal.

[mrbulk]

 

[Nomadic Pirate]

Cool

[Bicycleman]

Don, we all love to talk about our kills.  I don't know about the rest of the hunters out there, but I have many more misses than kills.  I just save time by posting mostly the kills. 
My avatar is a picture of a big girl about 10 feet away from my son's basement den windows.  Deer regularly came down the mountain into the yards along the street to graze on the bushes and tender grasses.  This doe stayed around for a long while entertaining my grandson and me.

[ranchibi]

Don, very nice! You’ll get the others next time.