I went out on my last possible deer-outing yesterday afternoon. (I have not gotten one all season).
So, at the last daylight, I am walking along this woods-line, bordering a field. All of a sudden a deer spooks in the woods, towards me. It runs, crashes through the woods and stops about 50 yards from me. It was hiding behind a tree, so I had to sneak around a little to get a look.
Finally I had it in my crosshairs, perfectly centered behind the shoulder, perfect broadside, 50 yard shot.
I had an anterless-only tag.
I wasn't sure if I could see antlers or not....I simply could not make it out, all I saw was an outline. (This was a Swarovski Habicht 30mm scope, btw....at about 5:10 pm in Eastern WA, with cloudcover)
So, I didn't take the shot. Sigh...til next year, I suppose. A couple of people initially said I should have shot regardless.
I know I did the right thing.
Almost shooting that moose cow a couple of weeks back (In my excitement, I thought it was "My elk cow", kinda made me skittish about being jumpy with the gun. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />
