I had a rotten experience with videotaping a hunt. The stand that is second from the left int hat pic is actually a portajohn which has been elevated on four poles to about 12ft (to the base of it form the ground). Windows were cut and framework installed for a gun rest.
This is an EXCELLENT spot because it allows a clear line of sight/fire down the hill into the gullies where deer travel, and also along some brush fencelines and open fields.
Anyway....it was Doe season, and this fellow (whom I didn't really care for)decided that he would sit with me in this little ****box and tape my shot, should I be so lucky.
It was cramped to say the least. One crapper ain't made to hold 500lbs of man in puffy orange suits.
At any rate, after an hour or so, I see a hunter drop intop the woods a few hundred yards away. I start scoping the woods edge seeing what will push out and sure enough, here comes a nice doe. JAckass has yet to spot him.
The tip of my rifle was already out the appropriate window for the shot (about 75 yards). So I begin to slowly bring it to my cheek. I am ON the deer; a good broadside shot. Safety is OFF, pressure is on the trigger. I think for a second about alerting this jackass beside me, who still hasn't even seen this deer yet and I think, "Screw Him, who needs the pressure".
Just then, he turns his whole fat ass in seat and says....no SHOUTS....."Theres one".....shoot it!!!
The whole stand is shaking and she has heard his comment, but I don't think she understood it because she didn't run right away. I whisper "settle", and can hear the tape rolling now.
I get back on the target....she is at full alert, tail held high, looking straight at us. It is still a good shot........hold breath.......squeeze....squeeze......
........Jackass moves again to get a better camera angle, bumps my rifle shoulder, and BOOM. He videotapes the deer flying off like a bat out of hell.
I felt sick. I have never missed EVER in my life. I avoid shots with a potential to miss/maim; now I may have allowed myself to take an irresponsible shot and I MAY have wounded this deer.
My string of expletives were caught on video as I I was pretty much tossing this guy's fat ass out of my stand.
I heard a couple shots a few hundred yards away, the direction she ran. Fingers crossed, I tramped o ver towards the shots and came upon two hunters and a freshly killed doe with a bullet hole in the rump.
Alls well that ends well, I suppose, but that story isn't among my favorites to tell.
