Haha.... I get to tell one of my more memorable stories...

Back when I lived in SC and worked in the gunshop there. I carried a Kimber Ultra CDP everyday on the job. It was a deterrant more than anything else, and I sold a lot of them just because its what I carried myself... as if I knew what I was doing!

Just about everyday, I'd work through lunch, take off an hour early and beat feat to the farm down the road about 15 minutes. Change at the parking area (a logging/skidder pad) and then jump in the stand for a few hours. Great way to end the day.

One day after work, I pulled into the farm and brother I had to take me a crap. I went off into some high grass to a tree that looked like it would be leaning at the proper angle. I was just about to the tree when I heard something in front of me. I figured it was a deer, and I broke out the Kimber as if I'd even see the thing anyway, and as if I could actually do something other than scare it worse (I'm a rotten pistol shot... but I can throw one pretty hard).

About then a BIG doe (in SC thats over 100#s) bounds right up in front of me and stops not probably 15 feet in front of me. Stupified, I didn't really take careful aim, but kinda pointed at her upper torso and let fly with a 240gr Gold Dot+P and she dropped like she'd been touched by death... I shot her right slam in the head.... probably the luckiest shot in my personal history of hunting.

Bullet performance was .... well.... terminal..... And so was the effect on my hearing... I'll never EVER do that again.