Posted: 1/5/2025 2:40:28 PM EDT
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What unbelievable stories have you heard? I'll start. Got a good buddy, hunted with him for many years. He is an avid gun owner. Friday night we were discussing his savage 30-06 rifle he brought to camp. He says yeah it's a single shot bolt action. He has owned this rifle since 1991. Didn't know it has an internal magazine for bullets. Has been hunting with it for 34 years as a single shot. We politely enlighten him, sorta.?? |
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I wouldn't call it unbelievable since I believe it, but it does make me go hum. We weren't even hunting, I was talking with someone who was telling me about a doe they had shot. They said the shot was good, but the deer just kept running. He says he trailed the blood for 2 miles when they came across a dead doe. When gutted, he says it was a perfect heart shot with a softball size hole through the chest. Hmm... It doesn't take a PHD to realize the issue here. What really makes me wonder is where is the guy who actually shot that deer? I can only imagine his confusion when he tracked it to a T and found a blood trail in both directions, forever questioning his shooting. |
| My dad was on a lease for a few years with many other hunters. This is in Texas with box blinds and corn feeders. We each got a few hundred acre area so you can hear shots fired and general direction. One guy comes in after shooting and says he missed with his rifle inside 100yd. A day or two layer he comes back to camp again after having fired a shot and says it was another miss. Maybe it was equipment failure, or he is a horrible shooter, but gosh to miss 2x in a weekend with a rifle inside 100yd is embarrassing unless the scope either died or came loose in the rings. Another explanation is trying to cover up a poor shot so he doesn't loose his exotic animal allowance. But something sounded odd about that story to me. |
| My dad didn't bowhunt so i basically had to read magazines to "learn" how to do it. I was around 14 years old when I shot my 1st (a doe). I was using some monstrosity of a broadhead with 3 fixed blades and 3 opening blades that looked cool. Buckblaster was the name I think. Anyways, This doe walked into the beanfield I was hunting by and I took the shot. Shot looked perfect but she ran out of site across a fencerow, through a grassy field, and then turned left into a tall weed field. It was getting dark and I didn't have a flashlight so I decided to take the 1/4 mile walk to my friends house to call my dad for help. It was almost a mile walk back to my house. Took my dad a while to get there but once we found blood we found a lot. . . and it was steady. We followed it for 100 yards maybe and tracked it to a gut pile! I was crushed. Only thing I can think of that doesn't take into consideration that some people are just greedy assholes is that another hunter (that I didn't see) watched the hole thing go down, watched the deer fall, and assumed I must've thought I missed because I was walking South when the deer was East. I'm leaning towards greedy asshole because he had to gut that thing pretty damn quick and beat feet outta there. |
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Originally Posted By explodingvarmints: My dad didn't bowhunt so i basically had to read magazines to "learn" how to do it. I was around 14 years old when I shot my 1st (a doe). I was using some monstrosity of a broadhead with 3 fixed blades and 3 opening blades that looked cool. Buckblaster was the name I think. Anyways, This doe walked into the beanfield I was hunting by and I took the shot. Shot looked perfect but she ran out of site across a fencerow, through a grassy field, and then turned left into a tall weed field. It was getting dark and I didn't have a flashlight so I decided to take the 1/4 mile walk to my friends house to call my dad for help. It was almost a mile walk back to my house. Took my dad a while to get there but once we found blood we found a lot. . . and it was steady. We followed it for 100 yards maybe and tracked it to a gut pile! I was crushed. Only thing I can think of that doesn't take into consideration that some people are just greedy assholes is that another hunter (that I didn't see) watched the hole thing go down, watched the deer fall, and assumed I must've thought I missed because I was walking South when the deer was East. I'm leaning towards greedy asshole because he had to gut that thing pretty damn quick and beat feet outta there. I'm sorry for the misfortune, but I wonder what the other half of stories like this are. Read my story, what if you are the other half? |
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Originally Posted By fgshoot: I'm sorry for the misfortune, but I wonder what the other half of stories like this are. Read my story, what if you are the other half? Originally Posted By fgshoot: Originally Posted By explodingvarmints: My dad didn't bowhunt so i basically had to read magazines to "learn" how to do it. I was around 14 years old when I shot my 1st (a doe). I was using some monstrosity of a broadhead with 3 fixed blades and 3 opening blades that looked cool. Buckblaster was the name I think. Anyways, This doe walked into the beanfield I was hunting by and I took the shot. Shot looked perfect but she ran out of site across a fencerow, through a grassy field, and then turned left into a tall weed field. It was getting dark and I didn't have a flashlight so I decided to take the 1/4 mile walk to my friends house to call my dad for help. It was almost a mile walk back to my house. Took my dad a while to get there but once we found blood we found a lot. . . and it was steady. We followed it for 100 yards maybe and tracked it to a gut pile! I was crushed. Only thing I can think of that doesn't take into consideration that some people are just greedy assholes is that another hunter (that I didn't see) watched the hole thing go down, watched the deer fall, and assumed I must've thought I missed because I was walking South when the deer was East. I'm leaning towards greedy asshole because he had to gut that thing pretty damn quick and beat feet outta there. I'm sorry for the misfortune, but I wonder what the other half of stories like this are. Read my story, what if you are the other half? Fair enough. I've seen too many things in regards to deer hunting, both family and neighbors, or state land alike, to think of the better side of things. I've said for a long time that deer hunting can turn even the nicest guy (or gal) into people that they'd never normally be. Full disclosure, I've been guilty of it at times. |
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Not my story but a buddy's. In Montana they came across an elk that had been shot, while looking at it they heard a rustle and guy that looked like an ad out of the Sears Roebuck catalogue comes out of the brush, they congratulated him on a nice buck and then "I shot it 20 minutes ago, what do I do now?" The group all chipped in to help show him how to hang and gut it while trying to not laugh. |
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Originally Posted By explodingvarmints: Fair enough. I've seen too many things in regards to deer hunting, both family and neighbors, or state land alike, to think of the better side of things. I've said for a long time that deer hunting can turn even the nicest guy (or gal) into people that they'd never normally be. Full disclosure, I've been guilty of it at times. For sure. Any hunting can have jerks in it. Deer hunting is at least nicer than other things. Duck hunting for example is not in a great state. There's a reason when you hear of duck hunters being killed we all assume one of two things, right or wrong. |