I dont know what I did

[jethro66]

Please kick me!!! I had a Doe commit to me from 25 yards to 50 feet and I still missed!! Fired 4 times and 2 were in the 50 ft. range and the deer stopped 2 times..Still had time to change the magazine and was on the lowest power setting..Caliber 7mm. Rem. Mag..Rifle set to 100 yards and used factory ammo..

 

[fuse]

Should have jumped out of the stand and clubbed it with the empty, smoking gun.

 

[yomomma]

Bumped scope?

 

[kennymo]

Doe fever?

 

[the spank]

Probably thought you were aiming but were lifting your head to look at the deer when you pulled the trigger. That's a common mistake. Follow through with a rifle is every bit as important as with a shotgun wingshooting. It is just a different kind of follow through.

 

[nimrod#1]

Bumped scope or buck fever.

 

[Superbrad]

It can't be a gun issue... Even a bumped scope would not be that far off at 25... It happens... I wager you got excited and did something stupid... Been there done that in my youth..

 

[Shep546]

Sounds like you are better off using a gun with iron sights?

 

[mmattockx]

Bumped scope?

If I was OP I would be heading to the range to confirm everything is still sighted in properly. Check all rings, mounts, etc.

Doe fever?

If OP had time to shoot 4 times before the deer ran off it must have been a pretty frantic affair, some deer fever is very possible.

Should have jumped out of the stand and clubbed it with the empty, smoking gun.

That's what the SKS has a bayonet for!


Mark

 

[c-fbmi]

My advice is to take up bowhunting considering those ranges................LOL

 

[Nester]

Are you the new owner of this:

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/988536-It-s-Sold!!!!!!!

 

[kennymo]

Are you the new owner of this:

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What an emotional roller coaster, this gun made me laugh AND cry. At the same time.

 

[baD mR fRosTy]

That close...you may have went under it. How high is the scope off the barrel?
That becomes very significant up close.
If you had been aim for a low behind the shoulder shot, you may have gone under

 

[jethro66]

Ha ha !!!Winchester model 70 xtr sporter early 90s ..Bausch and Lomb elite 4000 scope.sighted it in last year haven't touched it since..I was shooting up hill in a ground blind..Blue Mountian area..

 

[jethro66]

Probably thought you were aiming but were lifting your head to look at the deer when you pulled the trigger. That's a common mistake. Follow through with a rifle is every bit as important as with a shotgun wingshooting. It is just a different kind of follow through.

Hmm..Great points I have shot ducks that close but deer with a rifle has been greater then 70 yards in my experience..

 

[bumperfood]

Sometimes when in the excitement of the hunt, we don't see the cross hair in the scope when aiming. It is as if we are looking through a monocular. Our natural tendency is to put the target in the centre of the picture, but all it takes is to be off a bit and it's a miss. I have a 1/5th of a minute crosshair on one of my old scopes, and while it was great on a rifle set up for shooting gophers from a prone position, shooting at a whitetail was a different story,I don't think I ever actually laid the crosshairs where I wanted to hit it. More of a centre, shoot, and pray.

 

[yomomma]

.sighted it in last year haven't touched it since

Worst mistake you can make, ass-u-me-ing that things were as you left them.

 

[EcoHeliGuy]

Dirty Barrel?

 

[caustic]

matrix deer?

 

[caustic]

oh, and always confirm zero before hunting season starts.