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<blockquote data-quote="huntemup" data-source="post: 3296641" data-attributes="member: 35085"><p>I’ve tracked many a deer over the years both in Oklahoma and North Carolina and I find one thing in common for a great many of the deer we are looking for...gut shot. I’m inclined to believe that people are not accurately zeroing in their rifles. I think they get close enough on the paper bc getting dialed in to bulkseye is too meticulous for the average rifle owner. And that happens in ideal conditions-indoor range, a shooting bench, no wind, no buck fever, etc. </p><p></p><p>Not only are most people not great marksman, they’re even worse at estimating distance. Consequently opening day finds them looking through a scope on a rifle that was somewhat close to dialed in at the range, so they do one of two things, they aim center mass bc they know they’re more likely to hit something than aiming for the vitals they fear they’ll miss, OR they aim for the vitals but bc their rifle was off they hit somewhere other than where they should’ve. </p><p></p><p>To compound these bad shots, people are too impatient and they underestimate how tough are and how strong the desire to live can be. They come out of their stand way too soon and push a deer over and over again from what would’ve been his final resting place. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="huntemup, post: 3296641, member: 35085"] I’ve tracked many a deer over the years both in Oklahoma and North Carolina and I find one thing in common for a great many of the deer we are looking for...gut shot. I’m inclined to believe that people are not accurately zeroing in their rifles. I think they get close enough on the paper bc getting dialed in to bulkseye is too meticulous for the average rifle owner. And that happens in ideal conditions-indoor range, a shooting bench, no wind, no buck fever, etc. Not only are most people not great marksman, they’re even worse at estimating distance. Consequently opening day finds them looking through a scope on a rifle that was somewhat close to dialed in at the range, so they do one of two things, they aim center mass bc they know they’re more likely to hit something than aiming for the vitals they fear they’ll miss, OR they aim for the vitals but bc their rifle was off they hit somewhere other than where they should’ve. To compound these bad shots, people are too impatient and they underestimate how tough are and how strong the desire to live can be. They come out of their stand way too soon and push a deer over and over again from what would’ve been his final resting place. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]
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