@Whirli,
I am talking about you are outside, and someone takes a shot at a deer.
One shot.
Aside from, “Somewhere over there,” can you really say with any degree of certainty the exact direction and distance?
A few years ago, the wife and I were sitting on the back deck, and I was texting my “neighbor.” He lives about a mile and a half down the road. At the time he was literally sitting in his deer stand texting me, as sundown was about 20 minutes away, and he invited us over to grill out, figuring he was about done for the day. The wife and I were discussing what to bring over with us, when we heard a shot.
The only thing I could say for sure was it came from my neighbors general direction.
Sure enough, it was him.
But had I not known that, all I got was “it came from somewhere west. Maybe northwest-ish.”