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<blockquote data-quote="Ol&#039; Red" data-source="post: 2597522" data-attributes="member: 107965"><p>My turn to confess. I voted rushed shot / poor rest. I was hunting on a ranch where I could usually get within 80 to 100 yards from the does. I had an extra doe tag. I spent a couple months practicing shooting at that distance with my Ruger Blackhawk .44 mag. and was hitting consistent. Heading to a glassing point, the ranch hand that was driving pointed out a forkhorn 40 to 50 yards up a drainage ditch. I got out of the truck and knelt down. The ranch hand is telling me to hurry, he's going to run. I shot right over his back. Fired a second shot, also over his back. The ranch hand who is a good friend said "aren't they supposed to fall down when you shoot?" Now I start laughing and can't steady a pistol. I got back in the truck and gave that deer a free pass. I know that round sighted in at 100 yards is 15 inches high at that range. I allowed myself to get rushed. No matter what someone else is telling me to do, it was my finger on the trigger. The two seconds to qualify the shot before shooting was my fault. I should add that no animals were injured or mistreated during that part of the hunt.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ol' Red, post: 2597522, member: 107965"] My turn to confess. I voted rushed shot / poor rest. I was hunting on a ranch where I could usually get within 80 to 100 yards from the does. I had an extra doe tag. I spent a couple months practicing shooting at that distance with my Ruger Blackhawk .44 mag. and was hitting consistent. Heading to a glassing point, the ranch hand that was driving pointed out a forkhorn 40 to 50 yards up a drainage ditch. I got out of the truck and knelt down. The ranch hand is telling me to hurry, he's going to run. I shot right over his back. Fired a second shot, also over his back. The ranch hand who is a good friend said "aren't they supposed to fall down when you shoot?" Now I start laughing and can't steady a pistol. I got back in the truck and gave that deer a free pass. I know that round sighted in at 100 yards is 15 inches high at that range. I allowed myself to get rushed. No matter what someone else is telling me to do, it was my finger on the trigger. The two seconds to qualify the shot before shooting was my fault. I should add that no animals were injured or mistreated during that part of the hunt. [/QUOTE]
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