Worst Whiff???

Bolt Action Shotgun

In reference to the bolt action shotgun comment

I have been shooting my Dad's bolt action 16 gauge single shot, since my son took an interest in hunting this year. It sure gives him a lot more opportunities an I love the nostalgia of using a once retired shotgun. My son shot his first rooster a month ago, pointed by our GSP Lady 2, and now wants to go with me every time now. Take a kid hunting preserve the future of our sport.
 
jnormanh said:
I've had plenty, but the funniest one I've seen was my father. We were driving home late afternoon when we passed a cornfield which had a little (1/2 acre) low spot at one corner, grown up in grass and weeds. Dad wanted to see whether there might be a pheasant in there, so he got out, loaded his old Rem 11 and stepped in. He hadn't taken three steps when four or five roosters jumped almost from under his feet. Emptied his gun....not a feather. He reloaded, took a dozen steps and another half dozen roosters flushed. Emptied his gun again...not a feather. He reloaded again, walked a few more steps...more roosters...emptied his gun, not a feather. He took another handfull of shells out of his pocket, looked at them, put them back in his pocket, put his empty gun over his shoulder and walked back to the car as another bunch of roosters flushed.

He didn't say a word the rest of the way home. And neither did I.
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That is one of the funniest stories of bad shooting I've ever heard!:10sign: I gotta say, though, if it was me I think I would keep reloading until I was out of shells. I owe a lot more pheasant dinners to persistence than to expert shotgunning.;)

My hunting buddy was having a rough time of shooting on our last trip out to SW Kansas. Without question, he is the best shotgunner of all my hunting buddies (normally). He had missed a couple shots that would normally have been routine for him, and was really frustrated. Anyway, I watched a rooster fly (wild) into a strip of tumbleweeds in a depression at the end of a field we were walking. Beyond the tumbleweeds was a snow-covered alfalfa field so he was sitting awfully tight with nowhere to go. The dog nailed the bird with a stylish point, and my buddy walks in expecting the bird to jump but it won't. He keeps stomping and kicking around and the bird just won't budge. Finally, he hollers to me that my dog is making up stories and I reply that if she keeps pointing, he had better just keep kicking... Finally, when he has kicked every conceivable spot, the rooster flushes from between his feet and flies across the barren field. Well, you know the rest... He shoots 4 times, cusses a lot, and I am smiling like an idiot.

And I was NOT as polite as you when we got back in the truck.;) In fact, it was discussed a couple times that weekend.:D I'll probably bring it up again next time he tells me how quick he limited on ducks, or shot a triple on a covey rise, etc...
 
Triple whiff

A couple of decades ago, three of us were hunting the refuge at Perry lake when it opened Jan. 15. As we were leaving the area a rooster ran across the road into some very thin,short grass. We pulled over our two vehicles, left the dogs and hurried into the field. We stomped around. No bird. As we stood on the shoulder discussing how the bird could have eluded us in such thin cover, the rooster flushed right at my feet, skimming the grass . I unloaded my Ithaca double twice, Ned unloaded his uggie, then Joe, a crack shot, fired twice with his 1100. We never touched a feather. It seemed as if that bird came off of bare ground. WE still laugh about it.
 
Some friends and I were hunting and we were working some CRP down to the end and up jumps a group of roosters and some hens. Two roosters were flying to my right with a hen about 20 ft behind it. I take aim on the lead rooster and fire and the two roosters fly away and the hen drops dead. My buds still to this day say I cant tell the difference between a rooster and a hen. What a bad shot that was.

zeepo
 
Tincup

BleuBijou said:
Alright, I would much rather gloat on all my great shots, but here is one I will share. I was at a SWA in Colo. and was 14 for 14 on passing doves. In the zone for sure , making shots out of my you know what. Then I proceeded to fire 23 shells before my next bird fell. Can anyone say TINCUP. This is why we all love to hunt.....:cheers:
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Bleu,

Tincup? Please explain. Where you in Tincup CO?

Gman
 
Thanks

Men thanks for the stories; I was beginning to think I was the only one on this site that ever missed. I miss more than I hit, but I love the rush of the flush.
 
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