Quote:Over the years, I have had to delay or interrupt my shooting at firing
ranges until the deer passed through. The most memorable was a buck
very similar to the last photo, knew I was there and totally ignored
me.
Funny you mentioned that, Danno. My son's time is extremely limited and late in the season last year he finally found time to get down to the ranch to try and fill his freezer, having only two days to spare before end of season.
His rifle had flown since he last shot it and zero had not been checked so he headed to the ranch rifle range, priority one. We hung a target & he set up on the bench just as this buck stepped out.
No before pictures, but here's the after:
Not willing to chance the possibility of rifle zero being off, he fired at target which was no more than 20' from where the buck stood, watching us.
I was spotting target and deer was also in the field of view of my 10x binoculars. The buck flinched at the shot, but froze in place, here is buck's view of the shooting bench.
... so I said, "You're on, buck is yours if you want him." A split second later buck was on the way to his freezer.
Nice management buck and was really tender.
He made indicated sight correction....and we were off to do a bit of predator hunting for the remainder of his free time. Called in this kitty (protected in that pasture)
and a coyote which my son shot.
It don't get much better than that in my world.
Quote:Animals figure out pretty quickly what species and sex is being pursued.
Boy, you got that right, Mark!
Regards,
hm