That's pretty much been my experience as well--though am sure I'm not usually as close or lucky as he was!
The luckiest shot I ever made was a first-shot whack of a magpie across the Madison River with my father's Colt Frontier Scout when I was 15. That probably used all my luck up!
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
