my buddy Rich came up to hunt my buddies farm today lookng to shoot a doe for the freezer. Had him sit a spot this morning that we have seen alot of activity on . Tells me a guy shot so close to him that he was startled in the tree. since no one else has permision to be there we knew it had to be the neighbor right on the line. Rich told me that shot was way too close and he sees why guys are giving up hunting NJ , Little did we know TONIGHT would be worse than TOO CLOSE.
After sitting with him in the blind tonight swapping fishing stories we decided after him only seeing one small doe we were going to pack it in with just minutes left of legal shooting light. as we entered a power line that runs through the farm a shot rang off below us on the neighbors property, with the slug whistliing by us less than 6 FEET over our heads. so close as we both yelled to the shooter Rich was asking me to make sure I hadnt been hit.
We drove around meeting the neighbor walking out and let him know how close he had came to shooting us..While he couldnt apologize enough and tell us he knew it was alittle late to be shooting at the 4 does we had pushed into the powerlines as we entered I dont think he really understood why you dont shoot at sky lined deer.
hopefully the next time he remembers how
TOO CLOSE He was tonight
NEED to say one more thing , what this guy did was STUPID but he IS NOT by any means a jerk, actually is a very nice person .
Who just left the want of shooting a deer take over common sense. When we drove around to his farm I was ready to rip his head off, but when I saw the embarassment and concern that he had really gotten lucky that he hadnt hurt us come over his face , and how hard he couldnt say he was sorry was enough for me.
God def was watching that one for us ALL, but reason I posted this wasnt to bash him, its to hope other nice guys dont make the same stupid mistake, you cant take it back !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After sitting with him in the blind tonight swapping fishing stories we decided after him only seeing one small doe we were going to pack it in with just minutes left of legal shooting light. as we entered a power line that runs through the farm a shot rang off below us on the neighbors property, with the slug whistliing by us less than 6 FEET over our heads. so close as we both yelled to the shooter Rich was asking me to make sure I hadnt been hit.
We drove around meeting the neighbor walking out and let him know how close he had came to shooting us..While he couldnt apologize enough and tell us he knew it was alittle late to be shooting at the 4 does we had pushed into the powerlines as we entered I dont think he really understood why you dont shoot at sky lined deer.
hopefully the next time he remembers how
TOO CLOSE He was tonight
NEED to say one more thing , what this guy did was STUPID but he IS NOT by any means a jerk, actually is a very nice person .
Who just left the want of shooting a deer take over common sense. When we drove around to his farm I was ready to rip his head off, but when I saw the embarassment and concern that he had really gotten lucky that he hadnt hurt us come over his face , and how hard he couldnt say he was sorry was enough for me.
God def was watching that one for us ALL, but reason I posted this wasnt to bash him, its to hope other nice guys dont make the same stupid mistake, you cant take it back !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!