hahaha....no, i dont think missing is acceptable actually, but i also understand that people do miss; its just human. we all make mistakes. i also believe, like you, that when you do, you need to figure out whats wrong and fix it. thats what i did. thats my point, that your advice about fixing what was wrong was a day late and a dollar short. i took the off season to buy a new weapon and become accurate with it. i am very comfortable with my weapon, and the fact that anything that i pull the trigger on will fall down very quickly and with as little suffering as possible.

10/21/2010 1:07:15 AM

fair enough. like i said before, i understand that anyone can miss. I could yank a simple 200m shot or something...but I don't view it as "Eh, whatever, I hit 'em most of the time." That's what it sounded like you were saying.

10/21/2010 10:50:35 AM

haha nah thats not what i meant. I just meant that its often hard to get the first one under your belt, because you're often full of adrenaline, and thats just not a feeling that you can get experience with shooting at paper targets. but with practice at paper targets, you know you can hit what you're aiming at, and visualize that target right over the vital organs of the animal.

10/21/2010 11:01:57 AM

I don't go hunting. Hunting implies the possibility of failure.

I go killing.

10/21/2010 11:08:30 AM

If any of you like killing deer for fun and don't want the meat I will gladly take it.

10/21/2010 11:26:04 AM

haha sorry, but i like putting meat in the freezer

and jerky

10/21/2010 11:43:55 AM

^^^ that's what [user]pwrstrokedf250[/user] and I call it when we go out to his family's farm. The real question is how many deer we bring home. (I will assure you that in the future, it will always be fewer than five. He, I and one other dude shot 5 between us one time, and it was a rat bastard to clean and butcher them all).

I'm a shitty hunter, anyway. I don't even see anything most of the time when I go by myself. My only saving grace is that I'm a very good shooter.

10/21/2010 1:48:15 PM

im good with a scoped rifle, but with iron sights....ugggh...haha

im trying to learn the actual hunting/scouting part of it.....

10/21/2010 2:47:08 PM

all the fundamentals are the same...holding the rifle, breath control, trigger control, follow-through, etc. Iron sights aren't fundamentally different from telescopic sights.

10/21/2010 3:10:52 PM

true, but if its not a shotgun, i prefer scopes....unless its a .22. a scope takes out a lot of the fun of a .22

10/21/2010 3:17:36 PM

Quote :

"Iron sights aren't fundamentally different from telescopic sights."

eh...other than the whole sight and target being on two different focal planes issue.

10/21/2010 3:54:59 PM

eh iron sites and scopes are very different; some of the techniques/principles are the same, but they are completely different systems that will affect your shot.

10/21/2010 4:29:27 PM

eh

10/21/2010 5:05:27 PM

Thats an awful small deer...not one I would have shot, and even if she was larger I def would not have taken her if she possibly still had a fawn around. However, congrats on your first kill.

10/22/2010 1:49:57 PM

eh...i've seen smaller killed so it wasn't that big a deal, but i now that i have killed my first one i probably won't kill any more that could have fawns around....

10/22/2010 11:23:11 PM

i wouldn't shoot a fawn or knowingly shoot a mother who had fawns, but I've shot a yearling doe and don't have any problem with that. They taste perfectly fine.

10/23/2010 3:41:02 PM

I killed my first deer today.

of the season at least.

little prong buck, probably about 2 years old.

it was getting dark and I was itching to have a kill already...so i went ahead. Probably wait for a good sized one next time though but o well.

he'll taste delicious later.

10/23/2010 11:34:43 PM

haha, i shoot does, spike bucks, whatever. i don't even hesitate or consider holding out for bigger deer--if I see a deer walk out that isn't a fawn, I smoke it. One deer is about as good as the next, as far as I'm concerned.

10/23/2010 11:43:14 PM

well i was going to wait today and let the group come into the field but the lead doe who was tiny was getting sooooo close to me, she was about 10 yards away for real...I had no choice but to get this guy before she alerted all of them and I didnt get anything.

Im sure there was a good sized doe or buck in the back but I was too nervous to wait.

ended up killing him from about 20 yards out with a slug...needless to say the entry and exit wounds were pretttttty substantial lol

10/24/2010 12:13:09 AM