Now, anyone that is familiar with blaze orange knows how it seems to glow at dusk. Keep that in mind.
Remember the clearing at the bottom of the hill that I hunt in?
About three yrs after I began deer hunting, my new husband (who didnt like me using the 30.06) talked me into trying his 30-30.

He showed me how to put the shell in and how to rack a new one in after you racked/ejected? the old one out (or does it automatically eject them?). He also showed me how to use the iron sights (no scope for me). I was not happy with the situation but young love

(lust) being what it is I agreed to use the 30-30.
With my blaze orange vest on and blaze orange hat (yes, I was supposed to have more blaze on than that), I tromped down to my ground blind by the clearing and got settled in. It was about 1pm. I waited, and waited. My fingers started to
grow numb from the cold, even with gloves on. The yard lights came on up on the hill at the neighbors house and still I waited. Soon dusk was upon me and so was the only deer I had seen all evening. I raised the unfamiliar gun up to my shoulder and looked down the barrel.
Suddenly, I hear this droning noise. HMM, that sounds like a plane, I think. It is coming nearer. I am watching the deer in the sights and he doesnt seem to be bothered by it. I take bead again. The plane is coming closer still. I wonder
if it is the DNR

, I had heard they would be using planes this season. I look up to see if I can see it.that is when I realize, I should
be heading out of the woods, I dont have much time! My eyes are starting to water and my heart is pounding very hard in my chest, darn it I did not want that to happen again. I take bead one
last time and slowly I pull the trigger.Bang.
The deer drops. The shell ejects (I think). So in the twilight I attempt to rack another shell in. The droning noise is closer. Wait, I see movement
there up on the hill..it looks like someone is coming down the hill! OMG it is my hubby. S*** the deer is trying to get up too.
Now think about it, all this is happening in the space of two maybe three minutes.
I cannot get the shell in, I have racked and ejected about three shells. (mother-----, son of a ---, I whispered in a raspy voice) The deer is going to run away, Hubby is going to scare the deer! Oh my lord. I step slowly out of the blindI lean the gun against my seat. Then I wave my arms frantically to get his attention. He is still coming down the hill. I start to twist my upper torso from side to side as I wave my arms trying to get his attention

. The deer is still trying to get up. By now he is about 30 yards from the deer, HE SEES IT. Up comes his gun..klapowee. He shoots from the hip

. Plane is just flying, low and slow, over the clearing. The deer is now desperately trying to get away.

Hubby brings the gun up, takes aim and administers the final shot. The plane is almost invisible now.
He later tells me that all he can see is this bobbing weaving blaze orange mass with no arms (that would be me) just inside the treeline

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and he didnt see the deer till the last second. The deer startled him and that is why he shot from the hip.
The deer was only shot twice. My first shot severed his spinal cord and hubbys shot killed him. Suffice to say that I have not used that gun for deer hunting again.
WHAT A DAY!!!!!