No business hunting

[Nick]

I have shot 2 or 3 times at a deer. The reason being that some of us shoot more than 1 time at a deer is a symptom we like to call BUCKFEVER. But hey, if you think we shouldnt be hunting because we get excited and miss the first shot.....think what ya want!

[womanwhohunts]

I think I know what you're talking about.Un-loading a gun at any deer that comes by.That what we deal with on a regular basis.I did miss a buck one year and my dad and my husband bawled me out for not shooting again.I didn't have time to be sure of another shot,so I didn't take it.We eat what we shoot so we try to make shots that take down the deer without tearing up alot of meat.But the folks that hunt the land next to us just unload their rifles as fast as they can.I know I couldn't stay on a running deer enough to keep firing at it 4 more times.I know folks miss or something and take another shot,my husband missed one this year twice,just plain ole missed,dropped it with the third shot.I think if you make a good hit and it runs some distance thats OK,but I've seen deer that were fatally hit but running off and then shot again sometimes they were hit 3-4 times.Those deer were not fit to eat and were not wallhangers either.I get quite jumpy when I'm in the woods and those folks next door start unloading. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

[archerjg]

Around here it is not uncommon to hear 4 to 5 rapid shots and they get nothing. I especially hate the ones who get drunk and then go hunting and come back complaining something is wrong that they didn't hit the deer. These people shouldn't hunt either.

Archerjg

[Wisconsinboy]

from what i read wtn it sounds like you are braggin about how good of a shot you are. for some people it is nessasary for more then 1 shot. it doesnt hurt to put the animal down quckly. so your telling me that if a nice buck went flying across a field you would shoot once and mabye, maybe twice i dont think so. you would let the lead fly.

[Nick]

Yeah, sorry wtnhunt for jumping on ya like that, lol. I dont even remember making that post. I must have been tired or somethnig. But I have taken 2 or 3 shots at 2 different deer out of about 12 i have shot at. The others i either missed and couldnt get the sights back on them comfortably or else i got a good hit. I nbever hardly think about a second shot unless i miss. Its automatic right after a shot for me to but a live round in the chamber and turn the safety on.

[sureshot]

I understand what you are saying compleatly! a couple weeks ago I posted a topic on a kid I seen shooting at the air and nearly got my but chewed off LOL! I had a guy tell me he could hit nothing this year and asked what what wrong. I asked about the bullets and he said he just reloaded some new ones,I asked what groupings and he never checked.next I grabbed a shell and I could move the lead in the brass!His dies were set wrong and he just laughed and said one has to hit a deer! I think this goes on more than we think and they give us a bad name!

[horst]

Last year a kid here shot a dandy buck opening day of shotgun season.It went down but was obviously still alive.Instead of shooting it again he sat there and watched it.A few minutes later it was back up and made it into the park where the kid couldnt shoot it again.It woulda been his first buck but when his dad went in to look for it it stood up and walked off.He had grazed the deers head with a slug, not lethal but it knocked it senseless for quite awhile.All he had to do was shoot it again and hed of had the buck of a lifetime.As long as any deer I shoots still moving its gonna get shot again if I can do it, guns hold more than one shell for a reason. [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

[Gator]

Well let's see, I shot a doe twice this year, once while walking towards me, she then ran and didn't act she was hit, so I shot her again broadside, does this make me a bad hunter? Also, I shot a 9pt bout 2 mins later.

[Wisconsinboy]

muzzleloaernut, the guy that you just explained we can do without.

[elkoholic]

There is no excuse for seeing a deer and yanking up your rifle/muzzleloader/pistol/bow and blasting away in the direction of said animal. I have seen too many deer that were reduced to burger and surely must have succumbed to the shear weight of the lead that they were packing. The thought that if one fires enough times, surely one of the bullets will hit a lethal spot, is repulsive. The old saying: one shot, one deer; two shots, maybe one deer, has some truth to it. I can see a follow up shot, but to keep shooting until the deer quits moving is crazy. I doubt a deer hit in the vitals will die any faster if you shoot it in the guts/legs/butt as it is running away and this is surely not more humane.

[tedicast]

WisconsinBoy,
I totally disagree with you , and you comment about "letting the lead fly". I would not shoot at a buck, or any deer for that matter, no matter how big it was, if I was not sure of my shot. A deer, hauling a** across a field is not a shot I am comfortable taking. maybe I'm lucky, but ever deer I have shot, has dropped practically in its tracks. I would not have a problem with a second shot if needed. I just think picking shots you are confident with, is a lot more moral than shooting at a deer running across a field. Just my opinion, and you know what they say about opinions.
Last season, I was sitting in my stand, and I here a shot, then another. All said and done I counted 9 shots. Hour or so later, a kid comes by dragging a small buck. He shot at it all 9 times, and put it down for good with his last shell. The deer was hit in a front leg, gut shot, grazed in the hind quarter, and finally lunged. I know because I field dressed the deer for the kid. It left a real bad taste in my mouth. The thought I couldn't get out of my head, was if he didn't get lucky with the last shot, the deer would have died a slow painfull death. Keep in mind, where I hunt is shotgun only. This deer was a mess, and there was minimal meat left that was fit for consumption. Pick your shots!!!
Hunt Safely!, John

[FSU_Seminole]

You guys know what the problem is? It's a combination of 2 things going on with deer hunting right now. Problem 1 is the the crazy phenomenon with magnums now. I was in a hardware store here in August a few weeks before rifle season started in my county. It was a guy that came in and he was getting a scope put on this beautiful Browning medallion he had just bought. I was so in love with the wood on the gun I didn't notice the muzzle at first. When I did I noticed the muzzle was HUGE. It was a 300 Win magnum. I asked him was he going to hunt mule deer or Elk out west and he said no, he just hunts down here. There is NO REASON on God's green earth why a person should be shooting at deer in South Carolina or the southeast with a 300 magnum. I do hunt out west and I shot a deer with my 7mm here, a perfect shot behind the shoulder and the deer ran 150 yards because he was so close and the bullet carried so much velocity that it didn't mushroom properly. So I don't use anything down here unless it's and 06 or 270. Either calibur is JUST AS DEADLY as the magnums for whitetails. It's a free country and we can do what we want, but the 300s the 7mm Ultra Mags are ridiculous. These caliburs are just way too heavy and they kick the devil out of people so they flinch before they pull the trigger on a deer. But for some reason many hunters believe that if a deer is standing at 150 yards or 200 yards you'll be able to hit him easier with 300 than you would a .270 or 30.06. So you have these guys out there on stand without a good rest firing these big heavy calibur guns and they're missing all over the place. They're letting pride get the best of them, instead of using a 270, 280, 308 or and 06, something they can control they want to shoot the magnums.

The second problem is those same guys that run out and buy a new magnum right before the season starts are the ones that never practice shooting throughout the year. I'll admit I don't go to the rifle range between November and May, but I do start firing a few shots every other weekend starting in June until the season starts Sept 1 here.

[tedicast]

Bulldawg;
I don't see how anyone could have a problem, with a second or third shot, at an animal that is hit. Much better to anchor an animal, than to risk losing it. My problem are hunters taking shots that are high risk to start with. That has to be an individual decision. What I consider an iffy shot, I'm sure there are many people who can make that shot, and are confident in taking it. I have no problem with that. I do have a problem with "letting the lead fly", at a running animal, or an animal that is out of the range you practice at. Again, just my opinion.
Happy Hunting,
Be Safe, John

[bulldawg]

I have taken more shots than 2 at deer, and even did it at one of the hogs I shot, because I couldn't tell they were hit! Some animals are a bit tougher than others, and I am not going to risk losing the animal by sitting there telling myself that it was a good hit. On the deer, if I would have waited, they would make it to private property that was unaccessible to me, and I permanently anchored the animal. If that gets your goat, so be it, but I did what was right for the situations at hand, like it or not. And, I'm not ashamed, or afraid to stand up for it. I do aree with the point that 5 rounds shot off in 5 seconds is not cool, but there are situations where you need to not just sit there and hope the animal doesn't make it to a sanctuary. Just my opinion, which doesn't make me unsafe, or a bad hunter. Take care.