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anyone admit to making a terrible shot
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 855813" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>It was not a bad shot but a lucky shot. I was hunting on a power line cut that was mowed down like your yard. It was about 200 yards wide. I was in a chain on tree stand that I built in which I made a shooting rail that would attach to the front of the stand. This was the first time I used the stand. This nice 8 pt buck comes into the power line right at 350 yards away and just slowly walks across. I get my rifle up quickly and rest it on the shooting rail which is a bit too close to your body to rest the farther end of the forearm on and still be able to get behind the rifle well. The buck was still slowly walking and I was tracking him in the scope just waiting for him to stop for a moment to make the shot. In my haste to get on the deer I did not realize that I had set the trigger guard down on the 1/2" wide shooting rail and when I moved the rifle it slipped off the rail and my finger hit the trigger and BOOM. The buck jumped straight up in the air and mule kicked and ran about 50 yards and piled up dead. I had hit him perfectly through the heart.</p><p></p><p>Another time I was in a big white oak tree that we had a 4'X4' tree house built in on the edge of a huge peanut field. It had been in this tree for many years and some of the limbs had grown larger with more branches. I had to travel 300 miles to hunt and my buddy lived 30 miles away. He was supposed to have went and checked out all the stands and trimmed any limbs that needed trimmed before I got there but he did not do it. I got into this stand the first evening after I arrived and about 30 minutes before dark a nice buck comes into the field. I line him up in the scope of my 25-06 and can see no branches in the way through the scope so I squeeze the trigger and BOOM and the whole tree shook and tooth picks flew everywhere. I had shot a limb on the tree about 3 feet in front of the muzzle. The buck ran way down the field to about 700 yards away and stopped and looked back in my direction for a few moments and then jumped into the woods. I guess he was thinking, "What in the world was that"?</p><p></p><p>Yes many people will not own up to making mistakes or doing dumb things. Most will say they have never had any buck fever. You show me somebody that does not get a little shaky and their heart does not pick up its pace and the adrenalin does not start raging when a big old buck steps out and I will show you some body that is a dead man. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 855813, member: 10178"] It was not a bad shot but a lucky shot. I was hunting on a power line cut that was mowed down like your yard. It was about 200 yards wide. I was in a chain on tree stand that I built in which I made a shooting rail that would attach to the front of the stand. This was the first time I used the stand. This nice 8 pt buck comes into the power line right at 350 yards away and just slowly walks across. I get my rifle up quickly and rest it on the shooting rail which is a bit too close to your body to rest the farther end of the forearm on and still be able to get behind the rifle well. The buck was still slowly walking and I was tracking him in the scope just waiting for him to stop for a moment to make the shot. In my haste to get on the deer I did not realize that I had set the trigger guard down on the 1/2" wide shooting rail and when I moved the rifle it slipped off the rail and my finger hit the trigger and BOOM. The buck jumped straight up in the air and mule kicked and ran about 50 yards and piled up dead. I had hit him perfectly through the heart. Another time I was in a big white oak tree that we had a 4'X4' tree house built in on the edge of a huge peanut field. It had been in this tree for many years and some of the limbs had grown larger with more branches. I had to travel 300 miles to hunt and my buddy lived 30 miles away. He was supposed to have went and checked out all the stands and trimmed any limbs that needed trimmed before I got there but he did not do it. I got into this stand the first evening after I arrived and about 30 minutes before dark a nice buck comes into the field. I line him up in the scope of my 25-06 and can see no branches in the way through the scope so I squeeze the trigger and BOOM and the whole tree shook and tooth picks flew everywhere. I had shot a limb on the tree about 3 feet in front of the muzzle. The buck ran way down the field to about 700 yards away and stopped and looked back in my direction for a few moments and then jumped into the woods. I guess he was thinking, "What in the world was that"? Yes many people will not own up to making mistakes or doing dumb things. Most will say they have never had any buck fever. You show me somebody that does not get a little shaky and their heart does not pick up its pace and the adrenalin does not start raging when a big old buck steps out and I will show you some body that is a dead man. :D [/QUOTE]
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