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I have started coyote hunting after about 3 years of watching and reading as much as could get my hands on. In my first attempt with a homemade E-caller, after about 4 hours of working hard to see nothing, my partner and I were walking in when we suddenly walked up on a very large coyote standing on the logging road. He had no clue of our presence and allowed me to kneel for the shot. I was so excited it was like getting a shot at my first buck. I could feel the shake starting to rise in me so I took a deep breath, calmed myself and felt like I was keeping the cross hairs inside the chest of the dog as it faced me from about 70 yards. I squeezed the trigger and watched through the scope as dirt flew just over the shoulder behind the coyote followed by his quick exit to the right. I was so disappointed and could not get over my failure. I went the next day to test my rifles zero. After about 10 shots with nothing close to a group. I finally noticed the eye relief of the scope seemed awkward and eventually noticed the front rings had slipped completely off the gun. Repaired and resighted, I have renewed confidence and a good excuse. What are your favorite excuses for missing what should have been an easy shot?
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Campfire Ranger
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I've got all sorts, but no clear favorite yet.
Screw you! I'm voting for Trump again!
Ecc 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the 24HCF.
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Campfire Kahuna
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“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
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Campfire 'Bwana
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hey that really happened to me...last shot I had at a coyote was one crossing a food plot while I was sitting in a ground blind....just as I got on him he came directly in front of the setting sun and the flare like to blinded me. darn good excuse.
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Wasn't holding my mouth right.
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Campfire Outfitter
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Not an excuse but my first shot is usually a "warning shot" and very seldom get a second shot.
The Mayans had it right. If you�re going to predict the future, it�s best to aim far beyond your life expectancy, lest you wind up red-faced in a bunker overstocked with Spam and ammo.
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You guys keep practicing and you won't have to make excuses.
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Campfire Ranger
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I have a crystal clear image of Uncle Ralph backed up to an oak tree, bibbed overalls buched-up between his knees, and the 12 gauge model 37 nearly ten-feet away, resting on a shrub - as "the herd" came flitting by. Being completely engaged, he simply watched, and kept squeezin' - but it wasn't the trigger! I was only 'bout twelve or so, and was simply laughin' to hard to aim. Not a shot was fired.
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Very bad hangover gave me a very bad hold over.
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I just have this shooting thing mastered in theory only.
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I was hunting with my now gone best friend. He was in pretty rough shape. Only had one lung and a bad heart at that time. I had to carry his rifle. It was a twenty degree, crisp, clear morning. We had gotten about a half mile from the truck. A doe walked across the corner of a field. Gave Bob the rifle. He took aim. The rifle fired and the deer loped away. Bob looked up and grinned. In his hoarse whispery voice he said, "Darn cold air is so thin, the bullet just rose up over that deer!" We worked our way back to the truck. It was our last hunt together. Bfly
Be nice and work hard, you never have enough time or friends.
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Campfire Ranger
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I didn't shoot. It wasn't me. After you just went over and grabbed his barrel and it was still warm..
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Campfire Ranger
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I forgot to take the safety off.
I did it this year while deer hunting. It's not like I don't know how to do it after fourty plus years of hunting. When it happened I literally laughed out loud at myself.
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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Left handed safety on a Model 1100 screwed me up on a fast rising chukar. I'm left handed...
Pulled the trigger on an empty chamber carrying safe. Fortunately the kudu was dumber than me and stood there while I chambered a round.
Just plain missed a few times. Still can't figure those out. Will have to go back and see if Mercury was retrograde those times.
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery. Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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Campfire Tracker
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I've made a few warning shots over the years, figure it's more sporting to give them a heads up to what's going on.
Life is just one damned thing after another
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Campfire Ranger
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Here on the prairie wind is a built-in excuse -- even on the odd day when it isn't blowing.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Which explains a lot.
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To much group tightner the night before.
Fair Winds And following Seas.
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