Prior to yesterday, I missed my last three shots with the rifle - missing two groundhogs and a dog. Since I generally hit everything I aim at (I have a nice scope - it is not that I’m sniper material), I was beginning to suspect that I had jiggered the sights.

Yesterday I caught a standing groundhog at 150 yards - dead center in the chest, blew out his backbone. So, while I was proud of the shot, it means that I was just screwing up somehow on the last three.

The dog I can understand - I was so pissed that the neighbors had let him into my pasture again that I was breathing hard andprobably let the breathing jerk up the aiming point. But I shouldn’t have missed the bloody groundhogs.