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<blockquote data-quote="johnnyk" data-source="post: 2465024" data-attributes="member: 307"><p>Sometimes I can't see the forest for the trees. </p><p>This past deer season here in N.C. I was hunting a 4-5yr old cutdown with large, two vehicle, shooting lanes cut down the middle.</p><p>There is a larger, fresh (this summer) cutdown adjacent to the cutdown I'm located in. A hunting club, using dogs, had been hounding the area all day due to a late night sighting of a decent buck that was chasing does on the edge of "my" cutdown.</p><p>I was in the stand all day and saw around 40 deer, with only two being small bucks, a spike and 3 pt. The dogs actually ran a couple does into my cutdown and ran around and around but eventually left chasing the does.</p><p>10 minutes before the end of legal shooting light, I spy several deer coming out of the cutdown into the shooting lanes. They came out back to the West about 250yds, so the sun was killing me but I could see a nice, long tined buck with about 5-6 does. Immediate heart rate increase.</p><p>I had my AR in had and elected to go for my 7mmRM instead. Well by the time I shuffle around and get my LR rifle ready all I can see are 2-3 does walking away and going out the back side of the cutdown. Darn, I think, they're leaving. After a little pondering I figured the buck had stepped back in the cutdown to freshen up a scape or rub. Meanwhile the window I was looking and trying to shoot through, wasn't opening up enough so I could get a clear view through my scope. By the time I get that fixed I see the buck has come back out of the cutdown and appears to be looking for his honeys. He's walking toward me and I'm on him, just as he gets to the edge he pauses. I go for a high shoulder shot and squeeze a 162gn Hornady off. The 7Mag roars, the looks up at my stand and quickly returns in the direction he came.</p><p>Should have been a dead deer, instead a clean miss as I shot right over his shoulders. All my LR rifles are zeroed at 300yds, I saw the bullet impact the dirt/mud just beyond where he was standing at 100yds! ARGH! I kicked by butt all the way home. Oh well, he lives and I learn. Hope he forgets by next year.</p><p></p><p>P.S. The AR would have made a neck shot easily.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="johnnyk, post: 2465024, member: 307"] Sometimes I can't see the forest for the trees. This past deer season here in N.C. I was hunting a 4-5yr old cutdown with large, two vehicle, shooting lanes cut down the middle. There is a larger, fresh (this summer) cutdown adjacent to the cutdown I'm located in. A hunting club, using dogs, had been hounding the area all day due to a late night sighting of a decent buck that was chasing does on the edge of "my" cutdown. I was in the stand all day and saw around 40 deer, with only two being small bucks, a spike and 3 pt. The dogs actually ran a couple does into my cutdown and ran around and around but eventually left chasing the does. 10 minutes before the end of legal shooting light, I spy several deer coming out of the cutdown into the shooting lanes. They came out back to the West about 250yds, so the sun was killing me but I could see a nice, long tined buck with about 5-6 does. Immediate heart rate increase. I had my AR in had and elected to go for my 7mmRM instead. Well by the time I shuffle around and get my LR rifle ready all I can see are 2-3 does walking away and going out the back side of the cutdown. Darn, I think, they're leaving. After a little pondering I figured the buck had stepped back in the cutdown to freshen up a scape or rub. Meanwhile the window I was looking and trying to shoot through, wasn't opening up enough so I could get a clear view through my scope. By the time I get that fixed I see the buck has come back out of the cutdown and appears to be looking for his honeys. He's walking toward me and I'm on him, just as he gets to the edge he pauses. I go for a high shoulder shot and squeeze a 162gn Hornady off. The 7Mag roars, the looks up at my stand and quickly returns in the direction he came. Should have been a dead deer, instead a clean miss as I shot right over his shoulders. All my LR rifles are zeroed at 300yds, I saw the bullet impact the dirt/mud just beyond where he was standing at 100yds! ARGH! I kicked by butt all the way home. Oh well, he lives and I learn. Hope he forgets by next year. P.S. The AR would have made a neck shot easily. [/QUOTE]
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