Blown chances

[Big Fin]

My son and I were going through the last three years of video footage, looking at some of the things we have screwed up in our hunting.

Man, we have blown some good chances. But, none top the NM elk I messed him up on this last year.

This clip of a NM antelope could be a close second. Hard to get the cameraman, the shooter, and the animals to cooperate while trying to get that "Perfect" shot both with rifle and camera. At least one of the three seems to be out of sync, and it is usually me. |oo

Oh well, I plan to shoot this guy in October 2008, assuming no one shot him this season.

Hope I am not the only one who screws things up, for whatever reasons.

I probably am the only guy who does such things, but I am sure my Hunttalk buddies will ease the pain by making up some stories about chances they missed.




Happy Hunting!

 

[Oak]

I forgot to take the safety off on a WY antelope buck once. Or was it twice? Or three times? Do you remember Buzz?

At least I'm safe to hunt with.

 

[kiwi hunta]

I wasn't going to mention anything about the Elk hunt, but since you invited comment................

That son of yours must have a heart of gold, for him to have known he had a dead set shot on that Elk ,and then to have you talk him out taking that shot.. well I dunno, I woulda busted my old man chops and my son woulda busted mine if we had been in that position, I think you gotta let go and let others make there own decisions. sorry just being honest.

 

[Big Fin]

Kiwi:

This time, he was on the camera.

I guess we hunt with our cameras more than we hunt with our rifles. Makes for a lot of fun and cool memories, even if it screws up a few opportunities.

Happy Hunting!

 

[1_pointer]

I guess we hunt with our cameras more than we hunt with our rifles. Makes for a lot of fun and cool memories, even if it screws up a few opportunities.

That it does and thanks for sharing! Me, I'm more of a Chuck Adams poser with the critter on the ground!

 

[Frequently Banned Troll]

I'm with 1-pointer. I'm ashamed to admit that my camera rarely comes out when hunting until after something is dead. It's a bummer to think of all the neat photo ops that get overlooked. My hunting pictures are mostly poser hero shots.

But even though I never worry about filming during a hunt, I've blown more chances at stuff than I care to remember including 3 huge pronghorns in one day (one that officially net scored 87) - more big bull elk than I want to admit (one really painful elk snafu), a handful of stomper mule deer (2 over 200 in one day), crazy-big whitetails from when I was younger, and don't even mention bears... ugh! I've had some great luck.. but man, I've had some crappy luck too.

 

[schmalts]

I have played with my camera a lot (shut up Kurt, ice crystles rock!) but I don't hunt with others enough to get good video often. I always have my camera while hunting in WI for deer and have got some really cool video but i don't have the web space to post stuff. I hope to find someone to video if i draw UT elk this year.
One of my biggest screw ups with video was this year while hunting lopes with the Homo from AZ. Things happen fast and sometimes you just don't think about it until it is all over. We could have gotten some of the coolest lope kill shot ever taken if for some reason i thought that shooting a lope straight on would ruin the cape in the heat of the moment. We were watching my buck from about 430 yards and i was a little gun shy to shoot since i missed the day before at 340 yards so i wanted to sit tight and just had a hunch they would come closer. After 15 minutes the buck started pushing his doe and the whole herd came right at us and Stan was on him the whole time and i could have dropped him a 60 yards at a fast walk dead on, full zoom. Damn, you would have seen the impact! but I was thinking deer, so i let him get 20 yards broadside and made a bleat noise thinking it would stop him for a couple seconds but guess what a lope does in that case? yea, they go from 5 miles per hour to 40 in 1 second So now they were behind us, Stan is off with the camera and i am throwing lead at a running lope darting back and forth to keep his doe together. Oh well, the buck died, but the video sucked.

 

[elkay]

yes I wood shoot!! elkay

 

[MattK]

I've found that you can't hunt and be a cameraman. I've been fortunate to run the camera a few times and have gotten some decent video. I think the key is to not be a player in the hunt. Let the hunter be in charge and try not to do too much with the camera. I try to focus on the animal and not the shot. Most people aren't interest in seeing the recoil of the gun or the string flinging an arrow. If you're in the correct position, hopefully you get an arrow flight or some part of the gun going off. Anytime I try to hunt and use a camera both...I usually don't do well with either. Who ever said poser shots aren't good enough?

 

[Big Sky]

I can't think of any chances I've blown that involved a camera, but I sure have screwed up without a camera handy...thank goodness! There is a huge light brown phased black bear in Saskatchewan that haunts me nearly every single day and has been doing so since 1995. Then there's a truck load of screw-ups with antelope (they are my personal Achilles heel). I've only had one really, really, really big deer get away. I would give just about anything to have a second chance at that bruiser whitetail. I'm sure before I go in my grave I'll goof up a bunch more, I suppose they make for the strongest memories though...note I didn't say "best".

 

[T Bone]

Nothing haunts me like the Big O ram. What a hunt. Lifetime of grins right there.