re: What's your worst weekend of hunting? Here is mine.

One Sunday there was some commotion in front of my house,so my dad goes to check it out and one of the big bucks I was after got hit by a car. The driver says there were 2 bucks together and my dad looks over a sure enough the other buck has stopped to look back at his buddy probably 200 yards away. Some ding dong who stopped decided to pull out his rifle to make a shot on the buck in the pasture, but my dad intervened and an exchange of words ensued between my dad and the guy and the moron cop who just stood by while an idiot tries to make a shot from the road on someone else's land. It was my Junior year of college so I wasn't home at the time and a fireman came along and took the buck.

There were pictures going around the ZFD of the buck posed with different firemen in their hunting gear, but I never got my hands on one.

Go forward a couple days and I finally am able to make it to the house to hunt. I decided to court the future Mrs. Pointdog by inviting her to hunt with me. So dusk comes around and sure enough number 2 big buck comes out perfect broad-side at 100yrds. For some stupid reason I decided to use a shotgun that day instead of my rifle. I take the ill advised shot with the buckshot. Totally missed by the buck turned directly towards me a ran straight at me. I pump and raise to shoot the second time when he was probably 35 yards away and nothing happens. The first shell didn't eject, so I watched the biggest deer I have ever shot at run away unscratched.