Hi the Hoard,
My names Buck and today I had what can only described by the phrase "What the *@@! happened there".
So I was out this AM beautiful early winters day bright sunshine frost on the ground slight breeze from the North. I am in a high seat overlooking an clearing in the woods the wind is in my face. I have been there a whole ten mins.
When a fallow doe hove's in to view she is unsettled and is constantly moving in and out of cover. I have the pointer on her the whole time (No1 reticule). She is at a maximum of 25-30 yards the whole time. Eventually she stops with her back to me her neck straight up. I take a hold on the dead centre of her neck. 123 gr of SST is on its way at 2700fps then nothing, nada no flat deer nothing.
She was not hanging around now. I worked the bolt losing the empty case ($1.50 over here), waiting for her to stop. Obviously she had read the script and she was away.
I gave the wood some time to calm down and left the seat, going to her last know stationary position. I was hoping to find some sign of strike, nothing there. There was a lot of brush I had not seen through the scope though.
The gamekeeper had heard the shot, at are pre-arranged time, drove to my location to collect the deer. Only to be told that I had missed. There followed 15mins of piss taking with me being the butt of it all.
Well, that was my WTF moment today. I can't be the only member of this board to have had a moment like this.
So come on share your hunting WTF moments.
My names Buck and today I had what can only described by the phrase "What the *@@! happened there".
So I was out this AM beautiful early winters day bright sunshine frost on the ground slight breeze from the North. I am in a high seat overlooking an clearing in the woods the wind is in my face. I have been there a whole ten mins.
When a fallow doe hove's in to view she is unsettled and is constantly moving in and out of cover. I have the pointer on her the whole time (No1 reticule). She is at a maximum of 25-30 yards the whole time. Eventually she stops with her back to me her neck straight up. I take a hold on the dead centre of her neck. 123 gr of SST is on its way at 2700fps then nothing, nada no flat deer nothing.
She was not hanging around now. I worked the bolt losing the empty case ($1.50 over here), waiting for her to stop. Obviously she had read the script and she was away.
I gave the wood some time to calm down and left the seat, going to her last know stationary position. I was hoping to find some sign of strike, nothing there. There was a lot of brush I had not seen through the scope though.
The gamekeeper had heard the shot, at are pre-arranged time, drove to my location to collect the deer. Only to be told that I had missed. There followed 15mins of piss taking with me being the butt of it all.
Well, that was my WTF moment today. I can't be the only member of this board to have had a moment like this.
So come on share your hunting WTF moments.
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