Thread: Hunting and that bastard Murphy ...

been hunting in wet bush all day with bro in law...out into big clearing 200 yards from wagon,unload rifle...wandering across open ground and happen to look up at bush edge....faark,spiker looking at us,thumb rounds into mag...throw up rifle...faark like looking through goldfish bowl,scope wet...whipe it as good as can,BIL cant see deer...only head and neck showing...Ifire 5 hasty shots freehand at 75ish yards..cant hit plurry thing through goldfishbowl...go and have good look,track animal and very small amount of blood into big patch of crown fern with about a zillion wasps going crook.....no way are we going to dive into that....then penny drops.it wasnt a red it was a fallow...tiny target.....the footprints confirmed it....that was 20 years ago...needless to say Im ready earlier and till later now.