Thread: hunting incompetence

I have had lots of balls ups...neck shot deer that drop on the spot but get up and walk off while you chase down his mates for a shot(recovered but still a balls up).......counting chickens before they hatch small bush clearing two yearlings feeding.....80 ish yards peice of piss I thought .I will shoot the first in the atlas joint and carry it whole downhill to pickup and shoot the second in the shoulder as it bolts and take the hind quarters and back steaks off that......first one lifted its head just as the trigger broke and I got nothing.

Listening to mates with no sense of direction and spending a night out unprepared needlessly.
Also coincided with the lighter I had been lighting my smokes with all day running out.got a fire eventually but it wasn't good.
Learnt from that one....two forms of fire lighting minimum and don't listen to mates.


"Missing" a deer almost as soon as I entered the area only to almost trip over it on the way out....there was two but I only saw the one I shot and then the one that ran.
ALWAYS FOLLOW UP THE SHOT!
More than a couple of times hunting with a partner they have called a miss and I have insisted we go follow it up and found a dead deer....more times than found nothing.
After a forum long range shoot missed 3 or four easy shots on close animals and had wound down the elevation but not the 10 or more moa of windadge I had on 308!
There is no doubt many more but there is all the successes too.
As long as you are learning from the cockups and not repeating them you are on a win.

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Listening to mates with no sense of direction and spending a night out unprepared needlessly.

Learnt from that one....two forms of fire lighting minimum and don't listen to mates.


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been there ....if im with someone on a hunt now i make sure im the designated navigator/time keeper