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<blockquote data-quote="JJMoody" data-source="post: 1095579" data-attributes="member: 89869"><p>I had been doing an awful lot of load development and shooting for my new 300WSM all year long and was very confident that I would shoot the biggest deer of the season. This was not something that I would keep to myself. I made sure that everyone of my family members (who I worked construction with on a daily basis) knew I was the best shot by keeping some sub 1/2 MOA groups taped to the dashboard of my pickup at the time (I was 21. Don't judge me). When the rut starts to kick in around Central Idaho, no work actuall gets done and it's just expected of you to hunt before and after work. I got off early one day and had permission to hunt a great spot that I hadn't explored before. I threw my rifle over my shoulder and set off rapidly to get to the edge of a big canyon. Three steps out of the pickup, I jumped 3 shooter bucks but was too preoccupied with getting to the canyon to be ready for a shot. They left, I slowed down and stalked to shooting distance of several bucks that I could've easily taken, but turned down. Then I spotted a 150+ whitetail at 200 yds just feeding on an apple tree. I crept up, knelt down and touched the rifle off. The deer's head dropped and I thought he was hit and just didn't know he was dead, so I waited. He kept feeding. I krept a little closer and fired again. He casually meandered around the corner out of sight. Long story short it was a miss by a mile. My cousin had twisted the elevation adjustment on my scope until it stopped. By the time he came clean on the dastardly deed, I had sold the rifle and never shot it again. lightbulb</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JJMoody, post: 1095579, member: 89869"] I had been doing an awful lot of load development and shooting for my new 300WSM all year long and was very confident that I would shoot the biggest deer of the season. This was not something that I would keep to myself. I made sure that everyone of my family members (who I worked construction with on a daily basis) knew I was the best shot by keeping some sub 1/2 MOA groups taped to the dashboard of my pickup at the time (I was 21. Don't judge me). When the rut starts to kick in around Central Idaho, no work actuall gets done and it's just expected of you to hunt before and after work. I got off early one day and had permission to hunt a great spot that I hadn't explored before. I threw my rifle over my shoulder and set off rapidly to get to the edge of a big canyon. Three steps out of the pickup, I jumped 3 shooter bucks but was too preoccupied with getting to the canyon to be ready for a shot. They left, I slowed down and stalked to shooting distance of several bucks that I could've easily taken, but turned down. Then I spotted a 150+ whitetail at 200 yds just feeding on an apple tree. I crept up, knelt down and touched the rifle off. The deer's head dropped and I thought he was hit and just didn't know he was dead, so I waited. He kept feeding. I krept a little closer and fired again. He casually meandered around the corner out of sight. Long story short it was a miss by a mile. My cousin had twisted the elevation adjustment on my scope until it stopped. By the time he came clean on the dastardly deed, I had sold the rifle and never shot it again. lightbulb [/QUOTE]
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