Thread: Mistaken for game hunting accidents and human factors report

When you look at the stats It seems to be the young or the very experienced . The young seems to make sence , i.e. too excited and not enough experience .
Im in the older very experienced bracket ,and there is NO WAY IN HELL IM GOING TO SHOOT AT ANYTHING BUT A IDENTIFIED ANIMAL . I say that but am I ? . I used to hunt every weekend or second weekend for years , but now I get out Deer hunting maybe only 10-20 days a year , does this lack of hunting put extra pressure on the choices ill make on the hill . ( In the past I would have said to myself plenty of deer sign ill come back next weekend if I don't get one , not like now wait 6 weeks ) My mate and I have noticed that when we take a young fella out , they now out find us on Deer WTF ! In our thirtys we could find a twitching deer ear at 100 paces in poor light (maybe talking that up but get the idear ). I wonder how much older hunters failing eyesight has got to do with these incidents , lets face it once you hit mid 40s your eysight is poos . So i surpose your other senses take over , you smell deer ,you hear deer ,your brain fills in the blanks and you see a deer . Scary shit really !