Thread: hunting incompetence

Can anyone give me an example of really bad hunting to cheer me up a bit? I need a lift.

I had an appallingly bad hunt experience this morning. My son was out for a ride on his bike and saw 5 deer on the millet crop. So we took the rifle (SMLE as the decent rifles are now banned), and I was walking down the ridge where we thought the deer were, the boys hanging back a bit watching. I was all ready to shoot, had the bolt semi-closed, earmuffs on, and peering down into the trees on the south side of the ridge. I was moving super-slowly, making sure the deer were not there before taking the next step. Finally one of my boys comes up behind me and points out that as I had been walking down the ridge peering into the trees on the south side, I had passed not more than 5m away from the deer standing on the North side of the ridge! Sure enough, there they were, hightailing it over the horizon. All I had to do was turn my head 30 degrees and I would have seen them. I had to laugh at my own incompetence... and couldn't really blame my sons for laughing either.

Ok I'm getting a bit long in the tooth but this is ridiculous. Anyone else been more incompetent than this?