In my stand at about 3:30 yesterday afternoon, not much happening and out of the thick pines steps a very large 8 pointer at about 80 yds from my stand. I am in a stand of hardwoods so, I raise my rifle "which I shoot often" and place the crosshairs right behind the shoulder as the buck stops. I squeeze off what I thought would be a bang flop shot and the buck just spins around and trots off back into the pines out of sight. I thought for sure he had been hit. Alas, NO blood where he was standing when I shot or anywhere along his tracks for the 100 yds I followed. Very discourged by now I climb back into my stand trying to firgure out what went wrong. I sit in my tree and look towards where the buck was standing and I see a dead pine branch maybe 5 ft in front of me with a bullet groove in it. Never saw the branch in the scope but now I know that is why I missed.
Sounds reasonable to me, anyone else have a opinion on what could have gone wrong?
Sounds reasonable to me, anyone else have a opinion on what could have gone wrong?