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Seriously some details are always nice. Pics are good as well.
Heh...sorry. I am hanging him at a friend's house and didn't think to snap pics.
I was in a tree stand thinking I wasn't going to get one. It was my last day of hunting for the early season. I figured I'd just shoot a doe....and he comes trotting down the hill. From a distance he looked like a doe, but it's a little button buck. Oh well.....good enough to eat. I'll try for a bigger one in the late season.
Either I'm a bad shot, or he moved at the last second or my scope isn't sighted well. He was facing me almost head on...I aimed for his chest but hit him in the middle of his back about 3 inches below the spine. He dropped almost immediately without running.
Hey congratulations! My memory of my first deer: "man thats a lot of guts"!
lol...yup. I think I surprised the landowner because I sliced it open and was reaching up into it to gut it. I wasn't squeamish...just didn't really know what I was doing.
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Either I'm a bad shot, or he moved at the last second or my scope isn't sighted well. He was facing me almost head on...I aimed for his chest but hit him in the middle of his back about 3 inches below the spine. He dropped almost immediately without running.
Congratulations, one shot and dropped him where he stood.... nothing wrong with that
Way I read it, you were shooting "downhill" - that always results in a higher point of impact. If you're going to shoot from an elevated stand at relatively close (100 yards or less) range, it'd behoove you to sight the gun in like that, as well. Once sighted in for your "common" shooting, then run a few rounds in the other mode (ie, zero'd for shooting from above, then shoot from level ground) and make note of impact change. You don't want to change the "zero" from your normal shooting, just know what changes, and then change your aim-point on the animal if you're shooting from a different position than it was zero'd for.
Way I read it, you were shooting "downhill" - that always results in a higher point of impact. If you're going to shoot from an elevated stand at relatively close (100 yards or less) range, it'd behoove you to sight the gun in like that, as well. Once sighted in for your "common" shooting, then run a few rounds in the other mode (ie, zero'd for shooting from above, then shoot from level ground) and make note of impact change. You don't want to change the "zero" from your normal shooting, just know what changes, and then change your aim-point on the animal if you're shooting from a different position than it was zero'd for.
Yes....I was probably 15-20 feet above the animal. He was coming down a hill to a valley of sorts...then I was on the hill on the other side, in a tree stand. I sighted my gun last year shooting slightly downhill but not that much. I also should have re-sighted it this year but I didn't. This was actually the first and only time I've shot it since last January.
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.. nothing wrong with that
