Last night I had an unforgettable moment while doing some load development

[dastt]

So last night I take the gf out to do some shooting, and I had some load development to do with a new powder. It was hot here yesterday, so I waited until about 6:30pm until it cooled off a bit and the mirage wasn't as bad. I have a backstop I made by stacking 10 railroad ties ontop of one another then piled dirt behind that, and braced it all and so forth, set up at 300m.

As you can see in the pictures, there is soy bean planted on the field. I walked out and set up my targets, walked back and we started shooting away. About 40 shots in, I'm behind the gun. I pull the trigger and let one fly. As I get my scope back on target, in the bottom of my scope I see the head of a deer, and it's shaking it's head and flopping it's ears. My heart sank, I thought for whatever reason I had a bad shot that went low and shot this deer that was laying down.

Nobody else could see what was happening as the deer was at about 230m and there's a little dip in the field. So I was too concerned to keep going, I unloaded the rifle and immediately took off into the field to where I saw the deer in my scope. When I got closer I thought, I should have my camera filming this, but I realized in my rush I left it back at the line.

I get within 6 feet and this baby fawn jumps up from the beans, we have a moment of shock staring at one another, and it runs off into the forest unharmed.

So when I saw the fawn in my scope, it was just stretching and payed back down, it hadn't been shot THANK GOD. It's funny when I walked out to set up my targets I walked about 15' from where it was laying and it didn't move then.

 

[Dogleg]

You got off luckier than we did. A bit over a month ago we were shooting at my place. We were checking the targets at the 650 yard line with the truck, and just idling along through the new high grass on the edge of the crop. On the way back there was a dead fawn laying in the tire tracks. When the fawns are that small and the doe stakes them out they won't move for much.

 

[two-dogs]

You got off luckier than we did. A bit over a month ago we were shooting at my place. We were checking the targets at the 650 yard line with the truck, and just idling along through the new high grass on the edge of the crop. On the way back there was a dead fawn laying in the tire tracks. When the fawns are that small and the doe stakes them out they won't move for much.

I am very sorry to hear that!

 

[Grizzly Adams]

You got off luckier than we did. A bit over a month ago we were shooting at my place. We were checking the targets at the 650 yard line with the truck, and just idling along through the new high grass on the edge of the crop. On the way back there was a dead fawn laying in the tire tracks. When the fawns are that small and the doe stakes them out they won't move for much.

When I was a teen, had a job running a cat, clearing brush. Walking down the cat track one day, I found a fawn, flat as a sheet of paper. Mama must have told it to stay and it did. Haying kills a lot of them for the same reason.

Grizz

 

[sunray]

The shaking it's head and flopping it's ears was likely from the bloody great CRACCCKKKK!!!! that it just had over its head. FNG's to CF butts do it some times. It's the sound barrier breaking as the bullet passes over head.
Ain't nothing attracts Bambi, Bambi's mom and every deer Bambi knows like a big field of soy beans. Corn fields do it too.