One time I was sitting on a rock ledge over looking some pines w/ a small trail going though them, it was pretty good set up. At the end of the day a big bodied buck appeared out no where, about 20 yards beneath me, I raised the ruger 30-06, I had at the time, put the cross hairs on his shoulder, and squeezed one off. I was surprised when he ran off. I went down to check, but found nothing but a couple brisket hairs and no blood. I came back in the morning and saw that there was a small rotten branch hanging off a tree where he was standing, that I didnt see when I shot. When I looked closer I saw it had a small 30 cal. notch in it
I tried to follow the trail he ran down ,and only found one tiny drop of blood in about 200 yds, so I figured I just shaved a couple of chest hairs off him. Point is, that rotten branch was only a few feet in front of that buck, and it almost completely deflect a 180gr spitzer and cost me that buck.