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Here is the scenario. Choose your weapon.
You have a rifle and are at 75 yards.
You have a bow and are at 35 yards.
You have a muzzelloader (legal for wa)and are at 45 yards.
The wind is in your face. He obviosuly knows somehting is up. You have been standing there and he has fed into this position. This is a general tag for your weapon choice, day 3 of a 5 day hunt.
Lets hear some of you scenarios or what you would do........
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now now, he's not a wolf
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Just kidding, had to do it.
He doesn't look like a real big buck, still 2 days left.
Obviously not a good shot, I'd just freeze and see where he goes.
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Gosh that's a lot of brush. I suppose since this is the deer hunting forum it's a deer because otherwise I might mistake it for a sasquatch.
I don't think my arrow would fly through that stuff very well and I would worry about killing sasquatch.
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Not a very clean shot.
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It's a bad shot even if the brush wasn't there though. The tree is covering him up too much and is a frontal shot. I just found the deer in the photo. I couldn't even make it out earlier.
You didn't say if we knew he was legal or not...
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Wait, patience is a virtue, they say.
Me? I jus wanna kill sumthin!!
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March 30, 2008, 09:42:22 AM »
Thats part of the scenario. Can't tell in that picture, or at least I couldn't.
For those of you that held still, good job. The deer approached. He is now at 25 yards, all weapon types, he has continued his milling up the hill and has now entered a small opening and is now starting to move away from you....now you can see his points.
the wind is still in your face, and the animal is aware of something but not upset.
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I would have to say, it all depends on how much gas money I have left !! It is deffenitly not a big buck but is legal. I guess you have to first decide if you are on a meat hunt or a horn hunt.
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March 30, 2008, 10:18:24 AM »
had that same scenario happen to me in the 1st pic. on a whitey a few years back i could only see antler and ear deer turned and bonded away forever.the second and third pics being amuzzle hunter and having to eat tag soup the last 2 years thats a dead deer
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Well first of all i have noticed that about 80% of the time that when you have been seen but not winded that if you crouch down towards the ground as close as you can you will just disapear and the deer will go back to what it was doing and foraging for food...
Also the first picture at 75 yards through open brush is not that bad of a shot as long as he had taken a few more steps from being behind the big tree. Thick crazy olympic Penninsula brush, no way in hell, i would never take a shot through big brush....LOL......you could easily take a shot through a small opening with a rifle or a muzzleloader with the distances that were given...Bow, deffinantly not....I would not take a shot with a bow if there was one branch in my way....Jim Shokely has a video where he teaches you to make key Shots through difficult situations and growth and finding that little gap is all you have to do.......Thats comming from a very responsable and world renouned hunter and sportsman.....
But i wouldnt have taken the shot because even in the first picture you can see that he is not a big buck....Ultimately things do not line up in the first picture and a shot wouldnt have ever been thought of...Now if he had a nice rack or i could see mass then i might wait further....Ide let him walk a few more steps before i would think of taking a shot but if he didnt come out of the brush, then i would wait for a gap to shoot through. even a small gap(if i could see he was a bigger deer, but he isnt)....at that distance i am more than confidant with my abilities to shoot through a small hole and make it succesfully with a rifle!
But i am not the type of person to take a shot unless i 100% think that i make it or if i think it is a good animal....I am a very mathotical shooter and take my hunting very seriously....And before i shoot i always count points outloud so that my friends and people im hunting with can here me counting them.......That way you dont walk up onto a deer praying to good that it has a third point.....
Just remember like most have said already, most times more than not....If you wait a shot will present its self to you......It may not be a big deer, but it will keep you from questioning your self and shooting something that you didnt really want.....
Two more days is plenty of time.
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I would stand very still and wait to see how big he was. Once he came out of the brush and noticed that he was a young 3x2 with some potential later on I would not pull the trigger.
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March 30, 2008, 12:41:11 PM »
Sounds a lot like my first opportunity years back. I made one move and it was gone! Never found out for sure what it really was. Given the circumstances here, with the brush. I have my 30-30.... 2x3 with what looks to be a healthy body, I'd blast him! Meat in the freezer! If its general season, plenty of time for another bear...
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