There's a thing that we call the moment of truth when all of our hard work and

preparation throughout the the summer months comes together and for just a few seconds you have the opportunity to make a clean

shot a clean ethical quick killing shot on a game animal that you've pursued.

And one of the worst nightmares

that you can have as a sportsman

is for some part of your equipment to fail you at that point. Now it's much more common for the soft tissue as our friend

Rob gearing would say to fail, right? The human error is more common that causes something to go wrong there, but occasionally

There's something that goes wrong when you just

Know that you did everything right and that can be frustrating my friends.

One of the most common and perhaps least expected is when using a woodstock and it's caused by humidity and a certain way that the

rifles built wherein that woodstock changes a little bit when you go from a wet environment to a dry environment or vice versa

and the wood warps just a little bit and exerts an influence on that barreled action that causes your point of impact to shift

and you hit somewhere that you didn't want to hit.

I've got my good friend Austin Brown on the line with me. We're recording here remotely, but he's got stories and I've got stories, fairly recent stories, about this phenomenon happening. Austin, welcome back to the show my friend.

Oh, absolutely, thanks for having me again. You're going to get tired of me pretty soon, buddy.

Well, I doubt that, but who knows, maybe our listeners will.

No, just kidding.

You're one of the good voices that we love having on the podcast as regular as possible and man I'm already

getting a ton of great feedback off those episodes that we recorded in Africa

recently so they're not tired of you yet buddy.

Well, we'll plug on until then.

That's right.

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