One for the "weird shot" category: Jumped a buck; scope set on 7 power; mostly saw brown and then he was gone into the brush. My father wandered up, and figured the buck would circle into the wind, and exit the valley through a saddle about a half-mile away, upwind. So, I cut across, got on the more favorable crosswind side of the saddle and waited.
Sure enough, here came Bucky. He stopped to check out the world ahead, maybe 40 yards from me, and I put the scope on his heart--broadside shot. There was a prickly pear leaf right in line, but I figured that it was close enough to him to shoot through it. I fired; he fell stone dead.
I walked over to him to gut him out, and looked at "the" pear leaf. I had shot through five pear leaves! No three holes were in line; the bullet had curved up and to the right. The remains of the bullet entered his head, just under the ear.
.243; 85-grain HPBT.
I'll take luck over skill, anyday.
, Art