Bassbob
Emissary
Well, there ya' go !!! Very similar comment to many of those I've heard this from. Thanks Bob.
Bad as I hate to admit it, I'm also guilty from some time in the past. 95%+ of my hunting was done with high powered rifles, all with scopes due to the long ranges our shots typically were. Usually >150-180 yrds, and often >200. It was so very easy to jerk those rifles up to take a quick look, and I know it happened to every single hunt club member I knew over the 30+ years I hunted in those wide open, flat land pastures.
Oh well, we live and learn !!!
It really is something people don't think about Joe. I mean you're really only pointing a gun at an animal right. And it's not like you're going to shoot unless you got a clean shot on a legal animal. Alas, around here there is no mistaking what it is I am pointing at long before I get the gun up. Half the time I am asleep against the base of the tree and have been awakened by a deer. Then I gotta sit perfectly still until she looks away long enough for me to slowly get my pistol out of my shoulder holster. I shoot an inordinate amount of deer that way.