Originally Posted by Cowboys518

I have a cheap savage axis 30-06 I decided to sight in and take out this year , I sighted it at about 35 yards tho , was shooting perfect , where I hunt I didn’t think I’d shoot over 100, wound up having a buck come in a weird spot that was roughly a 125 yard shot and I missed , could it be that since I had a 35 yard zero that I missed because I was shooting out to 125 yards ? I only ever shot the gun at the 35 yards , or was it most likely shooter error ? It was a clean miss I’m not sure high or low tho , only good thing is I wound up having a bigger 8 come by half hour later , 45 yards that I blew right through his heart , just looking for some input thanks guys