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Thread: Yeah don’t rest your barrel on a fence wire when shooting a deer

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    Yeah don’t rest your barrel on a fence wire when shooting a deer

    What an egg. I wasn’t even thinking. Nice 10 point stag and 18hinds out just before dawn, we got in shooting range and they all headed towards the boundary so I thought they had winded us so I proceeded to try line up on the stag but the fence wire was in the way, so I put the barrel under the wire and felt the tension but had stag fever and lost my sense. Shot felt good so I let one go… stag stood stock still, I let another one go, stag didn’t flinch. Stag then ran towards us and stopped broad side.. I let another one go, no movement from the stag. Yeah I know all you guys would have figured it out by now or at least stopped shooting thinking the scope had been bumped. But no, not me, with adrenaline now amping and the stag still closing distance I fired 2 more before I ran out of ammo and the stag stood and looked at us before leaping the fence back into the bush. As I walked sadly back to the bike it dawned on me that the harmonics would have been messing with my POI. Anyway when back at camp I grabbed another round from the kit and shot one at the target at 100y. Hit the X almost at the centre… confirmation of my mistake. Honestly I have shot animals at close range 40-50y while resting the barrel on a fence before and had kills. So it didn’t dawn on me till the adrenaline subsided.
    Anyway that’s my dumb shooting call for the week. I’ll behave myself now. I hope someone is laughing.. the stag was… so was I when I walked out to the paddock and saw all the prefect divits from my clean misses lol
    308, Micky Duck, MB and 2 others like this.

 

 

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