Thread: One up the spout

Greetings Again,
Further to my earlier post I thought I would share a little tale. The young stag in the photo was my first deer. Early one Saturday morning, many years ago, I was sneaking up the track above Middle Hill Hut when this chap blundered out of the scrub and stopped broadside on about 10 metres from me. I was likely carrying my rifle in the fully forward and partly down position that I was bagging in my previous post and a very quick shot resulted in a dead deer. Could I have managed the shot from an empty chamber? Unlikely. With a loaded chamber and on safe? Definitely.
As an aside my two non hunting companions carried the deer back to the hut on a pole which meant that no meat was wasted. Later in the day @NIMROD turned up, possibly to show me a few pointers on deer hunting due to my conspicuous lack of success, thanks mate, but I was still fizzing and pretty much useless for that.
Regards Grandpamac.