rhetoric

The other day I called in a 6-8 point buck (with one of those cans). It ran right up to my blind, stopped about 25-30 yards away and posed for a shot. Now if anybody was shooting a "brush-buster" it was me -- a Premium Gold 12 gauge sabot. I fired and the deer bounded merrily away. I couldn't believe I missed but there was no blood anywhere (and much snow for tracking). So I went back to my alley and found one 1/2 inch grape vine with a neat channel cut right through the middle. I suppose it deflected high. I certainly wasn't trying to shoot through brush. I just didn't see the branch. But I'll never knowingly shoot at a deer into brush. It's not worth wounding an animal that I might not recover.