I believe that there have been number of states holding their Deer seasons around the country.
There will, therefore be a good nimber of folks who went to all the trouble to get the Tag, get everything ready for the hunt, Damn, left the beer cooler on the porch, Drove some distance to where the deer are alleged to be plentiful, get all set up for Bambi and there stands a fine buck about 75 or 80 yards away.. You been here before, so you amount of buck fever is greatly reduced. Your rifle is well braced and you zero in on what you regard as the Sweet Spot on this handsome animal and fire your .54 caliber rifle that usually has given you relatively tight groups t the range.
Andmiss
The buck gives you the deer equivalent of the middle finger and trots off, never to be seen again.
What the heck happened.
/ This was a text book setup.
it might have been as simple a thing as a "Flyer".They saying goes that your group at 50 yards is usually doubled aw 100 yards, maybe more.
if the shot you fired would have shown up as a flyer of 8 or so inches from the point of at at 50 yards, The lord only knows how off base it might have been at 75 or 80 yards.
I believe more deer or whatever have been missed, or worse, wounded, by flyers than we would imagine
Flyers can be prevented by using only solid lead balls which you can determine ARE solid by weighing them out. You owe it to yourself and certainly you owe it to the deer.
The general acceptance that Flyers are just "one of those things" caused by angel farts or whatever weird theory you might have is just nonsense. "Flyers" are caused and can be prevented by weighing them out to ensure each ball is solid lead.
Dutch
There will, therefore be a good nimber of folks who went to all the trouble to get the Tag, get everything ready for the hunt, Damn, left the beer cooler on the porch, Drove some distance to where the deer are alleged to be plentiful, get all set up for Bambi and there stands a fine buck about 75 or 80 yards away.. You been here before, so you amount of buck fever is greatly reduced. Your rifle is well braced and you zero in on what you regard as the Sweet Spot on this handsome animal and fire your .54 caliber rifle that usually has given you relatively tight groups t the range.
Andmiss
The buck gives you the deer equivalent of the middle finger and trots off, never to be seen again.
What the heck happened.
/ This was a text book setup.
it might have been as simple a thing as a "Flyer".They saying goes that your group at 50 yards is usually doubled aw 100 yards, maybe more.
if the shot you fired would have shown up as a flyer of 8 or so inches from the point of at at 50 yards, The lord only knows how off base it might have been at 75 or 80 yards.
I believe more deer or whatever have been missed, or worse, wounded, by flyers than we would imagine
Flyers can be prevented by using only solid lead balls which you can determine ARE solid by weighing them out. You owe it to yourself and certainly you owe it to the deer.
The general acceptance that Flyers are just "one of those things" caused by angel farts or whatever weird theory you might have is just nonsense. "Flyers" are caused and can be prevented by weighing them out to ensure each ball is solid lead.
Dutch