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Animals reactions to spotting shots, your experience?
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<blockquote data-quote="Kevin Cram" data-source="post: 441439" data-attributes="member: 2215"><p>I'm not positive on rules and regulations of many other states but here in PA taking a spotting shot would be considered shooting at random and would be deemed illegal here. I must agree with ss7mm, if the conditions are so bad or if your that unsure of your drop that you feel the need to take a sighter shot first you shouldn't be shooting. This game is all about knowing your equipment and proving how good of a marksmen you are, that's why we hunt long range. </p><p></p><p>Don't mean to rain on your thread so I'll at least give a example of a deers reaction I had last year with a near miss. I had found a buck bedded at 1489 yards. We had about 8 inches of snow with a crust on top. I dialed in for the shot and after the first shot the deer didn't react at all. My spotters said they didn't see a hit. I re-checked my dope and range, I was good. I fired another round...nothing. Another round....nothing. The deer never got up nor did either of my spotters see the hit. One thought it appeared the bullet was dropping in a laurel bush about 10 feet below the deer. I dialed down to the bush, put the cross hair back on the deer and fired again. This time my shot went about 10 feet over the deer and must have hit a rock under the snow and the round exploded leaving a black hole. That definitely got the deers attention and he was out of there. I video tape all my hunts and after we got home and reviewed the video on the big screen I could see a very subtle lift in the snow about 6-8 inches in front of the deers chest on all 3 shots. The spotters had 25x and 32x optically but the camera was running a little over 100x optically and could capture the subtle impact that they couldn't see. The snow just swallowed the bullet up without making any disturbance a mear 6-8 inches right in front of a bedded buck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kevin Cram, post: 441439, member: 2215"] I'm not positive on rules and regulations of many other states but here in PA taking a spotting shot would be considered shooting at random and would be deemed illegal here. I must agree with ss7mm, if the conditions are so bad or if your that unsure of your drop that you feel the need to take a sighter shot first you shouldn't be shooting. This game is all about knowing your equipment and proving how good of a marksmen you are, that's why we hunt long range. Don't mean to rain on your thread so I'll at least give a example of a deers reaction I had last year with a near miss. I had found a buck bedded at 1489 yards. We had about 8 inches of snow with a crust on top. I dialed in for the shot and after the first shot the deer didn't react at all. My spotters said they didn't see a hit. I re-checked my dope and range, I was good. I fired another round...nothing. Another round....nothing. The deer never got up nor did either of my spotters see the hit. One thought it appeared the bullet was dropping in a laurel bush about 10 feet below the deer. I dialed down to the bush, put the cross hair back on the deer and fired again. This time my shot went about 10 feet over the deer and must have hit a rock under the snow and the round exploded leaving a black hole. That definitely got the deers attention and he was out of there. I video tape all my hunts and after we got home and reviewed the video on the big screen I could see a very subtle lift in the snow about 6-8 inches in front of the deers chest on all 3 shots. The spotters had 25x and 32x optically but the camera was running a little over 100x optically and could capture the subtle impact that they couldn't see. The snow just swallowed the bullet up without making any disturbance a mear 6-8 inches right in front of a bedded buck. [/QUOTE]
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