Thread: Hunting fails and misfires

Originally Posted by 308

I've got one

Anyone familiar with the Lee Enfield will know that the bolt goes in and clicks onto a rail. Now pardon my ignorance as to the right names of things but the bit that clicks onto the rail only lets the bolt close properly if it is screwed in the correct number of times.

Basically it will look like it is a functioning rifle but won't do the business. Now a couple of roars back me and my mate draw a block in the water catchment area behind Wainuiomata that is one long ridge that leads up to a deer farm. My 308 was out of action for some reason so I grab the open sight 303 and away we go.
Good sign all the way up and we break for lunch at the top on the wee strip of grass up against the deer farm fence. Sitting there with no warning a 12-pointer pops the front half of its body out and roars right at us. Twice. This thing was about two farkin carlengths away and I'm sitting there struggling with my bolt and wondering why the fuck I can't chamber a round.

Longest 5 seconds of my life.

I had a friend did exactly the same thing on his first trip and he had 3 deer standing 20 odd metres away He never did see the funny side of it