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re: Worst mistake you have made hunting?
Posted on 1/1/20 at 8:54 pm to Soup Sammich
Posted on 1/1/20 at 8:54 pm to Soup Sammich
You might not have seen the 8pt. My philosophy is if it's meant to be. Trophy hunting is nothing but luck unless it's high fence . Don't let anyone fool you.
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Posted on 1/1/20 at 10:21 pm to Soup Sammich
Pretty tame compared to many of these stories. I'm no trophy Hunter never shot a buck before just doe. Buddy owns some land and every so often he'll ask if I want to take a doe to help thin the herd as he mostly hunts antlers.
Nice looking doe stops 75 yards away presents a perfect broadside shot. Rifle up crosshairs on target and... Nothing. Safety on. Crap! Flick safety off line up shot and... Click... Round not chambered. Shot!
Cycle the bolt back slowly trying to be as quiet as possible and my magazine falls out of the bottom of the rifle like I'm in a Benny Hill episode. Magazine makes and loud noise when it hits the wooden base of the blind and I let out a loud "F@&k!". Needless to say doe is long gone by the time I grab my magazine and and get the rifle loaded.
I always guessed I didn't intert the magazine all the way and didn't pay attention to see if the bolt actually picked up a round. Now I carefully look every time I actuate the bolt on that rifle.
Nice looking doe stops 75 yards away presents a perfect broadside shot. Rifle up crosshairs on target and... Nothing. Safety on. Crap! Flick safety off line up shot and... Click... Round not chambered. Shot!
Cycle the bolt back slowly trying to be as quiet as possible and my magazine falls out of the bottom of the rifle like I'm in a Benny Hill episode. Magazine makes and loud noise when it hits the wooden base of the blind and I let out a loud "F@&k!". Needless to say doe is long gone by the time I grab my magazine and and get the rifle loaded.
I always guessed I didn't intert the magazine all the way and didn't pay attention to see if the bolt actually picked up a round. Now I carefully look every time I actuate the bolt on that rifle.
Posted on 1/2/20 at 12:21 am to Ol boy
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Was probably 12-13 and we had parked the truck to go move a stand brush it in. I carried my gun with me the first trip as we walked into the oak bottom, walked back to the truck and decided to leave my gun because we had already walked back and forth. Got 25yrds from the truck headed back down to the bottom and a 130in or so 10pt stands up from a tree top and then proceeds to slowly walk away before trotting. He had let us walk by twice before deciding to get out of there. I now keep a gun with me within grabbing distance at all times during the season like I am on a battlefield!!!
This reminds me of one on my brother. So my dad had planted some corn and doesn’t get finished harvesting this ~25 acres before a hurricane came through and wrecked it the point of where he was only able to harvest 50% of it because it had laid down so bad. Fast forward three months and it turns into probably the best duck hole in Mississippi because of the un-harvested corn. Like, he probably should have leased it to some doctors for an ungodly amount and recouped the money he lost from not harvesting it all... But he didn’t and we hunted it. My brother has the bright idea that he’s going to go down there one afternoon just to watch before hunting the next morning.
So he takes off on the 4 wheeler and of course, no gun. So he gets about 50 yards from the hole and jumps the buck of a lifetime in this dragline ditch, that the duck hole drains into, that’s like 10-15 ft deep. The deer struggles to get out of the ditch and he’s just sitting there having to watch this 160” deer slip every time he tried to climb the ditch bank. Could have killed him with a pistol and is just having to watch helplessly.
Needless to say, we take a gun no matter what we’re doing now.
Posted on 1/2/20 at 9:04 am to Soup Sammich
I don't even deer hunt and these stories are making me mad. 
Posted on 1/2/20 at 9:24 am to Soup Sammich
When I was 11, I stashed a Playboy from the camp coffee table and took it to the stand with me. Had it stuffed in my coveralls and dad dropped me off at my stand. Was too nervous to bring it back so I left it in the stand.
My dad asked me a few weeks later if I left it in the stand. I lied and said no. The whipping I got for lying was worse than if I had just put it back and gotten caught, so I learned to be honest no matter what.
I miss reading those articles in the stand.
My dad asked me a few weeks later if I left it in the stand. I lied and said no. The whipping I got for lying was worse than if I had just put it back and gotten caught, so I learned to be honest no matter what.
I miss reading those articles in the stand.
Posted on 1/2/20 at 9:24 am to Soup Sammich
Years ago making an evening sit on New Years Day on a pipeline at a deer lease I’ve hunted all my life in La. Hung over like all get out from partying the night before. Out steps the largest buck I’ve ever seen on this piece of land. Walks towards me and gets within what should be easy shooting range for me. Turns broadside and starts making a scrape. I try to calm buck fever and hang over shakes best I can and let it rip. Deer jumps straight in the woods. Sat for 15min cursing myself feeling I made a clean miss. Not being able to take it anymore and walk down to the shot sight, with my rifle. As I’m looking at the scrape with no blood or hair around and the largest tracks ever, I hear crashing coming towards me. I back off against the wood line and a doe comes running out. Gets half way across the pipeline looks back at me as I hear what I’m more than sure is the monster buck coming behind her. She blows at me and runs across and he turns around to never be seen again.
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