Thread: Identifying Animals is the Bush?

My experience bush hunting has always been that I've identified the deer by naked eye before bringing up the rifle to shoot it. I cant think of a deer I have shot in the bush where I had to evaluate it by scope to determine what it was before shooting. It has always gone, stalking stalking, shit there's a deer, rifle up, yup most definitely a deer, boom (as an example). I would sure as hell prefer someone to confirm me through their scope rather then just send one my way though!! Every noise, movement, roar is human until confirmed otherwise. I have lost a good mate to a hunting misidentification, if you have to spend some time evaluating what it is through optics then its probably not a safe shot! Running into other hunters often puts the shits up me in the bush now, I'm always in blaze blue for the roar.