Ok, so took my third shot this season. I had a buck come at me from the other side of the draw on the absolute edge of my field of view 100 yards away. He was moving at a brisk pace and I get my rifle ready, but figured he'd turn and go away from me. Sucker comes up my side of the hill straight at me and has no clue I am there. Moderate 4 ft high brush surrounding my ground blind with great lanes looking across and down the draw up to 150 yards, but nah he is going to sneak up me by flanking me. I'm sitting right on his trail apparently.
I awkwardly move my rifle around to shoot toward the right while maintaining concealment behind a grove of trees. He gets within in 25 yards before he sees me and freezes. I can see his head above the brush and fire one where the boiler room should be. Takes off, no blood, no hair, I follow his path out down the draw 300 yards, but nothing. He gone.
I go back to try to figure it out and there's a dead stump about 4 ft tall just behind the brush where I aimed and just short enough I couldn't see over the brush. Start googling this and searching on YouTube, apparently, a brush shot ain't really no shot at all. Another lesson learned the hard way.
This needs to be moved to the “How bad are WMA gun hunt days” thread. 😁
