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<blockquote data-quote="Ridge Runner" data-source="post: 218136" data-attributes="member: 951"><p>I can see where a spotter would be a help, but can't for the life of me understand how you could watch a deer for 20 min and decide not to shoot, but say you would have taken the shot if you had a spotter.</p><p> its either a shot/no shot situation no matter how many people are on the ground. game animals are creatures of habit, they usualy say take 3 steps stop and graze, 3 steps stop and graze, they do it cause they do that everyday.</p><p> Rutting bucks are tough, early in my LR hunting I spotted 5 bucks chasing a doe, one 8 point looked decent, I spotted him at 9:20 AM and decided to take him, the chase was on and the chosen buck was constantly either after the doe or fending off the other bucks, finaly they went accrossed the ridgetop out of sight only to return a few minutes later, with a 6th buck in tow, I finaly dropped the hammer on that buck at 475 yards, the time was 1:49 PM, 3 times I had the wrong buck ranged and was just about to shoot, would a spotter have helped? possibly, but its just as likely to have made the confusion worse trying to find a running buck on a timbered ridge 5 football fields away.</p><p>RR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ridge Runner, post: 218136, member: 951"] I can see where a spotter would be a help, but can't for the life of me understand how you could watch a deer for 20 min and decide not to shoot, but say you would have taken the shot if you had a spotter. its either a shot/no shot situation no matter how many people are on the ground. game animals are creatures of habit, they usualy say take 3 steps stop and graze, 3 steps stop and graze, they do it cause they do that everyday. Rutting bucks are tough, early in my LR hunting I spotted 5 bucks chasing a doe, one 8 point looked decent, I spotted him at 9:20 AM and decided to take him, the chase was on and the chosen buck was constantly either after the doe or fending off the other bucks, finaly they went accrossed the ridgetop out of sight only to return a few minutes later, with a 6th buck in tow, I finaly dropped the hammer on that buck at 475 yards, the time was 1:49 PM, 3 times I had the wrong buck ranged and was just about to shoot, would a spotter have helped? possibly, but its just as likely to have made the confusion worse trying to find a running buck on a timbered ridge 5 football fields away. RR [/QUOTE]
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