I'm sure a lot of you guys watch some hunting shows on TV. How many of you sit there and talk to yourself? Saying something like "Why isn't he shooting?", or What's he/she waiting for?"
I know I do it all the time.
Now honestly, I have never hunted the farmlands in the mid-west. But I have hunted out in several western states in both the mtns and the flatlands. And cut my teeth hunting here in the east, mostly PA and a couple northern states.
You guys that hunt the laurel thickets of the mid-atlantic states, the guys that hunt the spruce forest of the north and those of you that hunt the swamps and tangles in the south know what I am talking about. Hunting where stealth is a must. Where it is rare to see all of an animal past about 35 or 50 yds. Where sometimes the only shot opportunity is a softball sized hole thru the brush. And we manage to sucessfully and cleanly harvest our game.
So that is why it makes me laugh when these shows have to have the animal perfectly broadside, standing still, AND head up sometimes before they pull the trigger. It may be good for TV. but IMO does not show the true realism of hunting. Now before I get blasted on this I do know there are times, expecially in archery where broadside or qtring away is required. But for rifle or ML, I don't think so.