RE: Shooting a spooked buck while Pheasant hunting
Actually, I've done this for years...when my bird hunting troop gets together, we always wear blaze anyway, and we often hunt grounds that I have permission to, but aren't quite salty enough to actually try to hunt often (better ground elsewhere). A couple of my buddies carry o/u's, which they enjoy slug hunting with too, and I'm a SXS guy, so we'll all load a slug, them in their top brl, me in my rear trigger brl (always forget which is which)...I also hunt with my pump in single shot mode with a slug in the tube, so I just have to flip a switch, cycle and take aim.
Of course we don't do anything stupid like take shots on sprinting deer or at long ranges or anything like that, but we've gotten 4 or 5 between the four of us while doing so, most of them being about 20yrd shots, they just lay their until we almost step on them after we've gotten a couple birds (shots fired that is).
Only real problem is getting a deer into a game bag?? <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>
Screw the 10 ring, keep them in the zero!!!