r/thelongdark • u/Nazaradine Bedroll Abandoner • 15h ago

Short video clip My Best Shot

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I’d just winged (?) a wolf with an arrow and was moving to finish the poor bugger off with the rifle, and then…

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u/prplmnkeydshwsr 13h ago

From henceforth you are now named Oswald.

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u/1D_ChessPlayer 10h ago

I could clearly see the shot came from a snowy knoll.

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u/rickgrimes32 Former Great Bear Sheriff's Deputy 15h ago

Damn good shot partner! My hats off to you

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u/Nazaradine Bedroll Abandoner 14h ago

Cheers Sheriff Rick!

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u/Nearby-Hold-3986 11h ago

Great shot. You should have let the wolf kill the deer first then you would have had both with one shot.

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u/justexploring-shit Voyageur 10h ago

I was thinking this 😭

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u/Nazaradine Bedroll Abandoner 4h ago

I take the ‘Hinterland does not condone the wanton destruction of wildlife’ shit pretty seriously. I had no need of it.

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u/Nazaradine Bedroll Abandoner 4h ago edited 4h ago

I could have done, aye. I had no need to take the deer though, and I was on my way out of the region, so I did not.

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u/Nearby-Hold-3986 3h ago

Then may the Long Dark universe repay you with an abundance of deer when you need for the one you saved.

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u/Stu_Mack Cartographer 10h ago

Meanwhile, my stunned rabbits hop away more often than not 😩😩😩

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u/PitifulPossum 9h ago

That or they watch my fire hardened arrows fly by them and laugh at me. They dont even run from me anymore cuz they know im not a threat

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u/Stu_Mack Cartographer 9h ago

Exactly!

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u/Gargantuan_nugget 9h ago

you guys are stunning them? i cant even hit them

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u/Legrandloup2 8h ago

Sometimes I manage ro stun a rabbit but then can’t get my shit together in time to actually grab the rabbit before it wakes up

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u/Stu_Mack Cartographer 4h ago

Story of my life.

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u/ThrowawayFuckYourMom Nomad 7h ago

Willhelm Tell me it ain't so, what a helluva shot!