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That never happens. Deer simply don't react that way to metallic clicks from safeties and hammers at close range. Just ask the experts here who have seen it all like BobinNH and battue. [/quote]

Here I am just minding my own business ......and along comes the NY expert...LOL!

I never professed to have "seen it all"...those are you words. Not mine .

Anyway here's another one from last year that didn't hear the safety go off on a M70 that was slapped forward.Shot him down in the timber off hand (lets call it 40-50 yards(?). Anyway it's moot if he heard it or not,isn't it? He looks dead to me....what do you think?

270 BTW....that cartridge that some people can't kill deer with.....

Blackheart you are just one reason this place is so funny at times.....









Here's a toad killed with a 7600 Pump in 270 (not mine) last year by my pal, Mr. Kane. he's killed a jillion with that safety....This buck heard the safety ,too I guess....so he hung around a second too long trying to figure out what that noise was I guess. Maybe he is so BIG, and OLD, that his hearing was impaired? You figure it out.

Note the shot placement....guess the buck was looking right at Paul. Must have heard the safety....(?).










Mauser 98 safety....clickety-click....again...270 WCF. This one only dressed 237#'s. My buddy's buck,last year,again.