Made the rookie mistake of lowering my gun too soon. Sitting all afternoon with only one that was under the 15” restriction here. Got my rappel rope set up and was digging for the ATC when I looked up and saw him. Brought my gun up ricky tick but it was too late. All I could see his backside and the beyond the ears rack I’d been waiting on.
No excuse but after a windy afternoon in the tree and squirrels close by making racket just didn’t think it was going to happen.
Lesson learned. There is a reason we have optics and that is to operate in low light. I switched to my leupold for this reason recently, but I decided to get down earlier than I should have so I didn’t have to do it in the dark. The extra 5 minutes of shooting time would have meant a buck instead I got to walk out of the woods stomping and throwing a damn fit all the way home.
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No excuse but after a windy afternoon in the tree and squirrels close by making racket just didn’t think it was going to happen.
Lesson learned. There is a reason we have optics and that is to operate in low light. I switched to my leupold for this reason recently, but I decided to get down earlier than I should have so I didn’t have to do it in the dark. The extra 5 minutes of shooting time would have meant a buck instead I got to walk out of the woods stomping and throwing a damn fit all the way home.
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