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<blockquote data-quote="bowhunterfanatic" data-source="post: 4979282" data-attributes="member: 7450"><p>Long story short I shot at a dandy buck this evening in a bean field. He was running across the field when I saw him. I tried to stop him 5-6 times bleating at the top of my lungs to little avail. He did slow from a run to a trot but I decided he wasn't gonna stop. I shot at him trotting at around 150-175 yards. The angle would have put him slightly quartering away. My gut reaction when I shot was that he was hit but probably back a ways. He went from trotting straight S across the field to running straight E at a much faster clip. I keep replaying it in my mind and can't figure out A) if I missed why he turned 90 degrees instead of continuing on his original path and B) exactly how I missed him (high low shot in front or behind him). I actually felt confident in the shot and didn't feel like I pulled it, jerked the trigger, etc. I just got the crosshairs in front of him and waited for him to run through the spot I was aiming vs swinging the rifle like you would wingshooting (if that matters any). I watched him run a couple hundred yards to exit the field and while he wasn't on a death run like one shot in the vitals I also wasn't convinced that he wasn't hurt. After waiting a while I went to search for blood and was easily able to find his track in the field and follow it to where he left the field. I never saw a speck of blood or gut matter. I chalked it up to a heartbreaking miss but I can't get over that gut feeling that I had hit him. So I guess my question is has anyone ever hit one with a rifle in the guts and not find a speck of evidence of a hit? Part of me wonders if I need to try and get a dog out just to be sure, but I'm not sure that a dog would be any help considering I found 0 evidence of a hit in the field.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bowhunterfanatic, post: 4979282, member: 7450"] Long story short I shot at a dandy buck this evening in a bean field. He was running across the field when I saw him. I tried to stop him 5-6 times bleating at the top of my lungs to little avail. He did slow from a run to a trot but I decided he wasn’t gonna stop. I shot at him trotting at around 150-175 yards. The angle would have put him slightly quartering away. My gut reaction when I shot was that he was hit but probably back a ways. He went from trotting straight S across the field to running straight E at a much faster clip. I keep replaying it in my mind and can’t figure out A) if I missed why he turned 90 degrees instead of continuing on his original path and B) exactly how I missed him (high low shot in front or behind him). I actually felt confident in the shot and didn’t feel like I pulled it, jerked the trigger, etc. I just got the crosshairs in front of him and waited for him to run through the spot I was aiming vs swinging the rifle like you would wingshooting (if that matters any). I watched him run a couple hundred yards to exit the field and while he wasn’t on a death run like one shot in the vitals I also wasn’t convinced that he wasn’t hurt. After waiting a while I went to search for blood and was easily able to find his track in the field and follow it to where he left the field. I never saw a speck of blood or gut matter. I chalked it up to a heartbreaking miss but I can’t get over that gut feeling that I had hit him. So I guess my question is has anyone ever hit one with a rifle in the guts and not find a speck of evidence of a hit? Part of me wonders if I need to try and get a dog out just to be sure, but I’m not sure that a dog would be any help considering I found 0 evidence of a hit in the field. [/QUOTE]
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