let the smoke out

[jigglestick]

I got to let all the smoke out of my barrel this evening! didn't get her, but she's even smarter than she was before.
sat from 2:45 til dark tonight. little colder than I thought. got a little chilly torwards the enda my sit when I noticed that old familiar sight, deer! a couple moving in on my right from the north. I could see two, then three, then more. the first was a great big doe and she appeared to be with fawns(s). then another large bodied deer behind them, so instead of the easy broadside shot, I waited to identify the deer behinder. by the time I could tell there were two does and four fawns, she was out in front of me so I decided to try to fill my bonus tag with her. I brought the gun around and a fawn busted me. she had been closer but was moving broadside so I set the trigger and dropped the hammer...click...D@M! she moved forward into some trees and I had time to put another cap on and I couldn't really see the front sight. it was light enough but the front sight becomes the same color as the trees and deer towards dusk so I put it on the body and set the trigger again....click...D@M! so I pulled the hammer back in a last ditch effort and this time she went KABOOM!. sparks flew out the barrel, and the air filled with smoke and when I looked down to see my prize, she stood there, looking saying "hey what the hell was that?" after about a half minute she decided to join the rest of the family who had about ahalf mile lead on her. oh well, it was just a doe. if I would shot when I first had a chance it woulda been a cake walk, but I learned my lesson the hard way last year when I shot the doe without looking and the turdy pointer bounded away safely, so I don't feel bad at all. now if it woulda been the buck and I missed, I woulda been kicking myself in the hinder, but it wasn't so I aint.

[deadeye]

Funny how that goes, you pass on an easy shot only to try a hard one.  I've been there.  I had a simular situation last Wednesday only I didn't plan to shoot the doe.  However, no buck came either.  Cool stuff anyway.