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<blockquote data-quote="CMP70306" data-source="post: 2988069" data-attributes="member: 36999"><p>A few years back the first year I hunted with a suppressor I aimed at a buck 30 yards away in heavy cover and pulled the trigger. When he jumped and ran 20 yards then stopped and looked back unscathed I'm not sure which of us was more surprised. I dropped him with the second shot and it turned out that I hit a twig a couple yards from the muzzle that caused the bullet to miss the deer entirely. Never saw the twig in the scope but the suppressor definitely gave me the chance at a second shot.</p><p></p><p>For the most part the majority of big game I've killed I only needed a single round however over the years I have had a handful of times that I had to use more than one shot. My first buck at 15 I killed on the third shot as it came running through the woods. A few more I shot twice though they were dead on the first one including my bison. My bear I shot 4 times with 3 being kill shots and the one was only 3 inches from being fatal.</p><p> </p><p>The worst and coincidentally the reason I'm even on this site was when I was 13, over two days I missed 8 shots at deer across a field until just before dark the last day I unknowingly gut shot one. As we walked across the field to check for blood a heavy downpour started and we never found any sign of a hit. A couple weeks later while turkey hunting we found the carcass a couple hundred yards from the field.</p><p> </p><p>I was so ****ed at myself for losing that deer, my second ever deer, that I started working on improving my shooting so that it would not happen again. I was always told the field was 200 yards wide so when the deer were only 3/4 of the way across I held a bit lower to compensate. It turns out the field is actually 350 and at best I was shooting under them with my .243 shooting soft points. </p><p></p><p>That experience was the catalyst for my interest in long range shooting as I did not want to have that happen again. 20 years later and while I have not had the opportunity to repeat that shot we have a gong across that field and I make it a point to hit it with one of my deer rifles every chance I get.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CMP70306, post: 2988069, member: 36999"] A few years back the first year I hunted with a suppressor I aimed at a buck 30 yards away in heavy cover and pulled the trigger. When he jumped and ran 20 yards then stopped and looked back unscathed I'm not sure which of us was more surprised. I dropped him with the second shot and it turned out that I hit a twig a couple yards from the muzzle that caused the bullet to miss the deer entirely. Never saw the twig in the scope but the suppressor definitely gave me the chance at a second shot. For the most part the majority of big game I’ve killed I only needed a single round however over the years I have had a handful of times that I had to use more than one shot. My first buck at 15 I killed on the third shot as it came running through the woods. A few more I shot twice though they were dead on the first one including my bison. My bear I shot 4 times with 3 being kill shots and the one was only 3 inches from being fatal. The worst and coincidentally the reason I’m even on this site was when I was 13, over two days I missed 8 shots at deer across a field until just before dark the last day I unknowingly gut shot one. As we walked across the field to check for blood a heavy downpour started and we never found any sign of a hit. A couple weeks later while turkey hunting we found the carcass a couple hundred yards from the field. I was so ****ed at myself for losing that deer, my second ever deer, that I started working on improving my shooting so that it would not happen again. I was always told the field was 200 yards wide so when the deer were only 3/4 of the way across I held a bit lower to compensate. It turns out the field is actually 350 and at best I was shooting under them with my .243 shooting soft points. That experience was the catalyst for my interest in long range shooting as I did not want to have that happen again. 20 years later and while I have not had the opportunity to repeat that shot we have a gong across that field and I make it a point to hit it with one of my deer rifles every chance I get. [/QUOTE]
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