FrontSight
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NOW WITH THE VIDEO...Anyone ever missed because the animal was too close?
I went on a boar "hunt" (a game farm, LOTS of fun, please no bashing of it), was using an ar-15 with an eotech and the piggies came right to me like I had them on a string. Maybe 10 feet away. Two shots (two piggies, one shot each), both missed, pretty sure I shot too low, rifle was sighted in for 100 yards...
I've got video of it (i-kam extreme sunglasses, they rock!) that I am putting together onto you-tube, but it's a little hard to tell for sure...
I never shot at paper to see where it hits at 10 feet...but I htink I'm right about it hitting low, since the barrel is way below the sight, right?
Anyway, I did manage to get 2 others that came around literally 2 minutes later, this time at about 25 yards (of course I didn't get THAT on video; didn't have time to turn it on)...but I did get video of fiishing them off with my handgun.
I should have just shot the first two with the handgun at that range, but it's hard to think of that when you're in the moment, and it all happened so fast.
What say you guys?
UPDATE: Here's part of the video; the shots I missed (for you guys to please analyze), as well as a finishing off shot on one of the boars I did bag a couple of minutes later (for your viewing enjoyment)...
You can see me clearly flinch the first shot, and then have a laugh when I forget to take the safety off later...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWUsU_ynXno
I went on a boar "hunt" (a game farm, LOTS of fun, please no bashing of it), was using an ar-15 with an eotech and the piggies came right to me like I had them on a string. Maybe 10 feet away. Two shots (two piggies, one shot each), both missed, pretty sure I shot too low, rifle was sighted in for 100 yards...
I've got video of it (i-kam extreme sunglasses, they rock!) that I am putting together onto you-tube, but it's a little hard to tell for sure...
I never shot at paper to see where it hits at 10 feet...but I htink I'm right about it hitting low, since the barrel is way below the sight, right?
Anyway, I did manage to get 2 others that came around literally 2 minutes later, this time at about 25 yards (of course I didn't get THAT on video; didn't have time to turn it on)...but I did get video of fiishing them off with my handgun.
I should have just shot the first two with the handgun at that range, but it's hard to think of that when you're in the moment, and it all happened so fast.
What say you guys?
UPDATE: Here's part of the video; the shots I missed (for you guys to please analyze), as well as a finishing off shot on one of the boars I did bag a couple of minutes later (for your viewing enjoyment)...
You can see me clearly flinch the first shot, and then have a laugh when I forget to take the safety off later...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWUsU_ynXno
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