With all the recent deer seasons either underway or completed,who took a shot and MISSED,thereby requiring a piece of shirttail to be tacked to the wall....

We'll include the bowhunters here as well.

Fess up.

1 shot-1 kill

Jim

Bow...2 shots.....1 kill......cut off one for me.
Rifle....1 shot 1 kill,I didnt want to shoot a small buck.But a crippled 3 point was limping through the woods and I shot him.

1 shot one kill, though I confess to a back up shot that missed...

You go first, Ol Buddy...

Yeah, I know your type. Trying to set up a story about that "perfect shot" you made this year, aren't you!? Hah! I read your book...

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I need a ruling.First shot was on a doe and was perfect.Five minutes later I thought I made a good shot on a buck.To watch him I thought I entered (yet another) shirttail.I airmailed a second 120 grain .25-06 round and ten yards later my tag was full.Upon skinning the buck I discovered my first round had hit,but about six inches too far to the rear (just behind the diaphram).So I ask for a ruling..do I need to pin up a portion of my Woolrich shirt or not ?

Lost most of a shirt... running shots ain't my thing (x3).

Then, made up for it with a 250 yard poke via a K2.5 (El Paso vintage) and post-and-crosshair reticle, and .300 Savage, 99EG.

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I'll see if I can't do better this weekend.

Hell, ya can't kill 'm if you don't shoot at 'm.

Now thats funny,missing the follow up that apparently wasn't needed.In my view,you get to leave the shirt entact.

VA !
I'm laughin here.I have the mental image of a half disrobed hunter puttin a .300 Sav in a 99 configuration through the paces.
Nice shot at 250,thats about the edge of things for that one.

Edge?

Nope.

Another 100 yards... THAT's about the edge.

Running shots? I suck.

Put it still out there somewhere, I'm GOOD...

Fortunately, I never liked that T-shirt anyway... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I missed two freezer bucks...they standin still.
might coulda missed one runnin thru the hardwood too.....

Yeah, but you're a yankee... you're SUPPOSED to miss... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

T-shirt !
noooo Sir,it's got to be the outer garment.
In truth I'd much rather have the broadside shot than the whitetail in flight thing.Unfortunatly,the deer have their own take on the subject.

Dude... that was the outer garment...

By golly, your honesty surprised me! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> I actually think you did even better than OK!

Two shots and two deer down right now this year.

Last year? Uffda. I was sick last year, but that's no real excuse. I shouldn't have been out in the field. I'm thankful I shot poorly enough to have not wounded something.

I hope this was on the same day or you could be out of laundry.
Did you carry the rifle you had re-barreled ?

I'll admit it, much as it pains to do so.

Missed a little 3 x 3 shooting down a really steep hill at about 250 yds out, should have been a chip-shot, looked for blood for 3 1/2 hours, couldn't belive he got away.

The next day I missed another, a little forked horn, at 300, with a dead reast, flat ground, and no wind. Missed that little f-er twice, he ran off unscathed.

Went to the house & checked zero at my F.I.L.'s house, wasn't even on paper at 100, waaaay low.

Resighted & shot a buck the next day at around 200 yds through thick mahogany brush, threading the needle so to speak.

Now, before the flaming even gets started......YES I CHECKED IT BEFORE THE SEASON. I changed the mounts on this rifle the week end before the season opened because the old mounts were non-adjustable pieces of crap, and that forced me to crank the windage adustment all the way to the end of its travel, hard, to get it zeroed the previous year. I sighted it in 1 3/4 high at 100 just like I always do. Why it changed I'll never know, it wasn't abused much sitting in the gun safe for a week before the season. The mounting screws were still tight (locktite), so it wasn't the mounts, and it is still ok now.

I still need a ruling..
The first shot on the buck was too far back,I think fatal,but not clean.

This year I'm batting a 100 percent!

no shots no deer... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

I whacked a doe at the farm w/the rebbled 86....and finished this buck for this gypsy misfit....

Took me 2 shots to anchor this bad-boy...as it appears my first shot went clean through the backstraps.

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

Well if ya killed it................... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Ah, ha, NO! This was ML, and slug hit in front of her and low. Was hoping it was "fresh" tenders for supper that evening. Had me so perturbed I dug out some year old venison for supper. Guess will just have to chalk up to my ongoing battle with stupids!

4 shots, 4 kills......

no shots yet this year ... perhaps this weekend ...

Well, so far it looks I'm probably going to have to own up and ask for the salute.

I have another season coming where I will be able to get serious, so can still hope. Got the Big Boy I want to work then, and really have to bare down and not make mistakes on those guys. The stalk is my favorite also for those old guys, win or lose, always seem to learn something about those older bucks for future reference.

5 for 5

1 with bow

4 with da rifle

2 for 3 so far this year. 2 does with a muzzle loader, but I missed a nice 8 point at 350ish yards (he was standing in front of a tree I'd just lazered at 368) sharply uphill with my .308.

I've gone over the shot dozens of times in my head and still can't figure out what I did wrong. My only excuse is my hunting partner was also staring him down through his scope and whispering "hurry up and shoot or I'm going too". I musta rushed it a little.

One shot one deer.

Two shots one moose.Second wasn't needed.Dead on his feet.

But all the pockets came off in the wash...........right... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

I missed one with the 44 mag blackhawk at about 40 yards, uphill. That was too bad, because he was pretty nice. Made up for it the next day, when another nice buck was kind enough to stand still 40 yards from me. Scoped .270 that time though, bang-flop.

The Red Gods were smiling in my direction this year, thats for sure.

tq