CH I feel your pain. If you hunt long enough something like this will happen. Four pages into the thread and no one has stated what I consider the obvious. That shooting 3-500 yards at the range is/can be different from actual hunting conditions. Most rifle ranges have a flat terrain where we can see the wind at different yardages. Some ranges even have flags set up on the range. It is much easier to dope the wind at the rifle range where we have these types of indicators. This changes in an actual hunting condition and as CH stated the wind gust was not noticed until after the shot. Beating up on CH is not my intention. Just stating that sometimes what we think we know, we don't. Spoken by some one who lost an elk a long time ago and still remembers the event.
