Kinda opposite of H&Hs
David4516 Quote:
I've looked thru my binoculars at some sob a scoping me out
I've seen this before. Not good at all. People need to understand that a rifle scope is NOT a substitute for binoculars.
Yeah, ya need to be holding two scoped rifles side by side for true binocular action :banghead: :banghead:
el44vaquero The last time I hunted on public land I was shot at no less then a dozen times. I guess they are lucky that they only allow 12 ga slugs, or someone could really get hurt.
I hope you were being sarcastic
- shotgun slugs do have a shorter range, which is why they are used in populated areas, but they are very lethal. The full bore slugs open full bore (large caliber) holes even if they don't expand. and the more powerfull sabot slugs ie Winchester Partition Supreme transfer a lot of wallop
I had the following occur on a public land hunt during deer gun season. (Kokosing Reservoir Wildlife Area, Knox County, Ohio) Now I know enough to stay away, but this was Sunday, the last day of gun season so a friend and I gambled that being sunday, participation would be light. And so it was, relatively. I had to go from my county to this in an effort to tag out. We were in fairly early, and my friend whistled and pointed. About 75 yards away, a decent buck (no, he wouldn't have been B/C) was making his way to an opening. I looked around, saw nobody around except my friend, raised the barrel of my slugger and waited for a clear shot. A few minutes, the deer is still fidgeting behind some brush and I hear crunch, crunch, crunch. A party of 3, complete with hunter orange stetson is making their way toward us. My friend puts up the universal hand signal for stop, and they stop about 30 yds away from us. Amazingly, after all the noise and motion the deer is still where he was. With the intruders temporarily stopped, and not anywhere close to my field of fire, I again raise my gun. And then they walk right in front of us.
"What do you see, man?"
"That buck that's running away right now, that I've been trying to wait out for the last few minutes" I reply.
"Bummer, Dude"
"Couldn't you guys have waited and stayed still once you saw a raised gun?" I asked? "You walked right in front of me, and ruined a shot"
"We didn't think you were actually aiming at anything"
"But you saw our "hold up signal", and you held up for what, a minute?"
"Dude, you didn't shoot" :banghead:
"You still could have shot, even with us walking up "
Uh, no I couldn't. I am a safe, conscientious hunter. At that point I gave up talking to them, and we went and found an area difficult enough to walk into that it would discourage the "sunday hunters"