Or near misses, just a discussion. I remember having the discussion with an old time Hunter about the Deer moving before the bullet hit. He told me I'm full of Deer droppings (paraphrase). I'm a pretty good shot and with a good rest seldom miss my point of aim by more than an inch or two. I've had hits on Deer where the point of impact was a good distance from my point of aim. I started taking most of my shots when the Deer were head down feeding, instinctively and seldom had a point of impact different than my point of aim. I came to the conclusion that when the point of impact was different than the point of aim it was almost always on the horizontal. Could be I'm jerking the trigger, but that is unlikely as I have a set trigger (likely) set to less than a pound of pull.

Bear with me here and don't hesitate to correct my math. 3000 fps as a likely velocity (hedging to the high side) is 1000 yards per second. Average shot 150 yards. That is 0.15 seconds flight time for the bullet (approximate). Likely a little longer as I'm using muzzle velocity and bullets start slowing as soon as they leave the barrel. By my reckoning that is plenty of time for the Deer to be in motion between seeing the muzzle flash and the bullet hitting.

Average human reaction time is .25 seconds. I recently watched a video that times a Buck jumping the string on a bow hunter, reaction time 0.08 seconds between the twang and the Deer hunching enough for an arrow miss.

I think it is possible for a Deer to be in motion after seeing the muzzle flash and before the bullet hits. What do you think, is my math wrong?