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I am guessing 100 yards is a bit far for my 45, oh well, chalk this one up as a miss, at least Greenhornet47 got his. Les

If the first shot was strong enough in impact to give time/opportunity for the second, I'd be inclined to say you keep your shirt intact. What you know, though, is better than my ruling from afar. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

no flame,just coffee all over!
About the time you realized you had problems,you were out TWO shirts however.
My worst year was getting ready to go opening A.M. in about 1986.My new labrador "Colonel" brought me my rifle as I was getting dressed.The little busturd was DRAGGING the rifle by the sling.When I picked the rifle up the forward bell of the scope was actually ground down by the concrete of the basement floor!(I stiill use the scope).Now you talk about not hitting the broadside of a barn,I set the record.

I can remember one day, just after Christmas, my dad came home from hunting with the club, took off the nice wool shirt mom had just given him for Christmas and put on an old shirt and went back to the club. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

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I love it !
smart man.

That's why there's always a change, or two, of clothes in the truck... right?

great pic..
half a loin is better than no loin,and with that rifle..nice.

I have a system.I am issued Woolrich shirts for work.After they have been laundered enough times they take on the appearance of a chamois cloth,these are in turn worn for hunting.They work great for gun oil cloths. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Do I have to count a grapevine?

My shirts are intact, but then I have passed many shots that could heve gone either way. If it ain't a dead bang surity I hold fire and wait for a better chance. I also am a close range stalk hunter, my longest shot was 68 yards from a rest!

If the shot I missed ricocheted off a rock and cleanly killed a different legal animal, do I still have to trim my microtex <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />?

(Yes it happened, and yes I have a witness, and no, he wasn't lined up with the bull I shot at. And yes, I had five tags in my pocket and planned to kill two bulls for meat, so it was completely legal and ethical.)

A pic of the ricochet bull...

And he is really tasty <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />. And 250 gr Woodleigh Weldcores hold together really well!

would love to have witnessed thata one....great story.

Ashamed to say clean miss at 80 yards with my 94 BB in .375 Winny. Put a new Williams peep on and everything this year. Just misjudged the yardage. Shot right over his back as the poor aching tree behind him will attest to.
Guess I gotta pull a chunk off my red chamois woolrich.
MCS

This was close T, and stupid. I did not even see it until it went swinging back and forth. The ONLY excuse I can give is it blended with the deer's body, and I aint even sure of that. I was sure I had a clear shot.

Can tell an even dumber one I did last year, but it needs to wait for awhile. I'm still getting ribbed about it enough here, LOL!

I never saw him fall, because he was out of my line of sight and I was focused on the bull I was shooting at. Imagine my surprise when I walked up and saw two bulls lying dead...

Good thing the bag limit was five per day <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />.

If my buddy hadn't been sitting 400 yards to one side watching the whole thing through binos, I never would have figured it out. The bullet went through the ribcage sideways, just behind the near shoulder, and exited sideways through the ribs just behind the off shoulder. Go figure the odds on that one <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />.

Getting a shrit tail cut off for missing is just an old wive's tale.

It's what the old timers told their wives had happend to their shirt tails when the truth was; they had forgotten to take any TP with them. Rather than use grass or leaves to answer the call, they sliced off their own shirt tail and used it to wipe with.


Oh yeah, all my shirt tails are intact, and clean. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

1 for 1 with my bow.

2 for 1 with my 7-08. In my defense, I pasted him through the boiler room twice. The first shot, he bucked/jumped and went about 10 ft and stopped. I knew I hit em good but wondered wtf. I sent no. 2 down range just above no.1 and anchored him for keeps. One through the heart and the second jellied the lungs. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Mac

I murdered a chickasaw plum bush trying to thread the needle earlier last week - clean miss. No woolrich shirts here just wrangler denims. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> But just this evening my wife and I saw a really nice buck wooing a receptive doe and we just set the rifles down and watched the show as she had never seen this before. No meat but a damn fine hunt it was in a raging snowstorm (rare for this locale). As I get older I've found that some of the best hunts don't include kills...

Okay, I thought I had the most interesting shot of the year, but muledeer just whooped me a big one. Good thing you didn't have to try to pass that one off a ranger..

Left part of a shirt in wyoming shooting at a stupid little antelope.. got the second goat. Yum..

Deer season was 2 shots for 2 bucks, in 10 minutes, with both on ground 17 yards apart. First shot going into the mouth of a charging buck (okay, he was just a 2x1 forkhorn, but he was a MAD 2x1 forkhorn <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />), down the throat and into the vitals. Mouth was at chest level and I was sitting. Second shot was at the 5x5 who came to investigate while I was kneeling in the pasture by the first buck, 10 yards and through the neck.

And, Les, you shoulda called at 2:30am the other day. I could have sent some sympathy venison home with ya. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> Thanks Calhoun. What a guy. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Steve says I jinxed myself. Les