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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Eichele" data-source="post: 349164" data-attributes="member: 1007"><p>Please accept this post as a friendly outside looking in perspective. You may not like what you hear but this is what I think.</p><p></p><p>If the shot had been a perfect high shoulder shot as you are convinced, there would be no tracking job as the buck would have folded. The bullet most likely did not explode to the point of not reaching the spine. </p><p></p><p>I realize that you are a capable shooter yet not perfect. we all make mistakes. Our tendancies are to lay blame on something other than ourselves. Have you concidered the possibility of the bullet hitting just behind or in front of the scapula just under the spine yet above other vitals? That is what it sounds like to me. Talking from experience here, sometimes the very close shots become more difficult than the long ones because long is where we practice most of the time. I recently missed a MT goat twice at 133 yards. I got him on the 3rd shot when he started to run. I guess I needed a challenge. Missing the mark happens. It is very doubtfull the 165 SGK would have done any different.</p><p></p><p>Sorry if that was tasteless. It was said with the best of intentions.</p><p></p><p>M</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michael Eichele, post: 349164, member: 1007"] Please accept this post as a friendly outside looking in perspective. You may not like what you hear but this is what I think. If the shot had been a perfect high shoulder shot as you are convinced, there would be no tracking job as the buck would have folded. The bullet most likely did not explode to the point of not reaching the spine. I realize that you are a capable shooter yet not perfect. we all make mistakes. Our tendancies are to lay blame on something other than ourselves. Have you concidered the possibility of the bullet hitting just behind or in front of the scapula just under the spine yet above other vitals? That is what it sounds like to me. Talking from experience here, sometimes the very close shots become more difficult than the long ones because long is where we practice most of the time. I recently missed a MT goat twice at 133 yards. I got him on the 3rd shot when he started to run. I guess I needed a challenge. Missing the mark happens. It is very doubtfull the 165 SGK would have done any different. Sorry if that was tasteless. It was said with the best of intentions. M [/QUOTE]
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