How many of you missed shots at deer in 2006?

[Onestringer]

Next time, lets just ask who did not miss.  I will sum up my season

Day 1 kill, kill
day 2 miss, miss, miss, kill
day 3 miss, miss, miss
day 4 kill, miss, kill
day 5 miss, miss, miss
day 6 kill
day 7 miss
dau 8 miss
day 9 kill, kill
day 10 kill
day 11 kill
day 12 miss
day 13 miss, miss

Those are the 13 days I had shots, there were alot I did not.

[SteveB]

I got to ask - 25 shots and they where all either kills or misses? None of option 3?

Steve

[uncowboy]

I missed an 8 Pointer at 25 yds . It was the only shot I had all year. J.Michael

[BillJ]

Wow Onestringer, how many deer can you take in there in MO?

[Hersh]

Missed a really nice 8 point with longbow. My very first hunt with the longbow. I Shot him several weeks later with muzzleloader. Turned out great to still get him but would have liked to have got him with the stick and string. Cant wait till next year to hunt more with longbow. Found out how much I like this traditional thing after shooting compound for 20 years. Cant wait to get my first kill with the longbow. Hersh

[stickmeister]

First week ever out hunting, I missed a last twilight 15 yard shot at a handsome 8 pointer from the inside of an abandoned barn. It kept walking straight towards me ever so slowly until I released. My first and bad case of buck fever. My hands were shakin all over. Only recurve shot this season. More smarter practice but still a couple weeks left to make up for it. There isn't much else like it!

[owlbait]

Opening day mmmissed at 12 yards. Had bad case of jerkleg on a 4 point. Got the bow to half draw and watched a soft, slow arcing arrow pass harmlessly over his back. Couldn't believe the string got off my finger at that low tension. Great fun, and got to hunt with my brother who almost died from GBS in Nov.2005. Next year will be better!

[whitebuffalo]

I missed a doe at 25 yards. I spooked a whole lota deer walking into my hunting spot in the middle of the afternoon. They weren't saposed to be there yet but they beet me there. Deer went everywhere and some ran away real short and then started to come back accross once thee new where they wanted to go.This enormus doe comes trotting through and I draw and hit anchor follow lead let the string loose when it felt right and she actually heard the shot stopped imeadiately and the arrow passed right in front of her at boiler room level. If she would have stayed the course she would have been backstraps in the pan. But thats the way it goes.Later that evening I shot a real nice doe standing still,quartering away. great shot!

[Onestringer]

I hunted in MO and IL where doe tags are unlimited.  There was one option 3, I labeled a miss.  Option 3's are between me and me.  I hate guys who say "I stuck one but could not find it", that happens and it sucks, but I don't really like talking about it.  Six of those misses were at deer 5 yards or less from my tree.  They sure are hard to hit that close.

[SteveB]

Did not mean to single you out.
Reading this thread, you would get the impression that shots are either kills or clean misses - and none of us are that lucky consistantly.
The reality is if we are posting numerous multiple misses, we are also posting numerous multiple wounds.

Steve

[tmccall]

Originally posted by Onestringer:
Those are the 13 days I had shots, there were alot I did not.

[James Wrenn]

Now after trying for the prize for most misses who is going to fess up with how many wounded deer this year?There are just not that many clean misses without a lot of almost misses too.jmo  

[tmccall]

Originally posted by Onestringer:
 Option 3's are between me and me.  

That's exactly the way it should be!  'Nuff said.  

[KPaul]

I had 6 bucks run in under my stand AT THE SAME TIME,missed shots at 4 of them.Ran out of arrows.None wounded.Only wounds were to my pride.

[STOBBER@WORK]

That's just a cruel question to ask !  

[greenie]

I think you guys jinxed me.  I didn't get much time in the fall to hunt - been building a new house.  Missed out on groundhogs, squirrels, rabbits and all the interaction with does and small bucks in the early season which usually toughens me up mentally for the peak of the rut.  For the last three weeks, there's been a nice 140 to 150 inch ten pointer hanging around my neck of the woods.  I saw him in the headlights in the lane one night and my wife got a picture of him.  So tonight with the storm front approaching I thought he would be on the move and slipped into the tree at about 4:00.  At 5:00 tonight straight up here he come down the hollow and I melted.  All I could think of was wrapping my hands around his beautiful white horns and smiling for the picture.  He was standing 25 yards broadside and all I needed to do was crouch down and make a smooth release.  But I felt like I was in a strobe light due to my nerves unraveling and suddenly, my heart was located right between my ears.  The rational side said to abort, don't attempt a shot, but the devil sittin' on my shoulder on the other side, said "piece of cake!"  God, I wish I would have just shot that devil.  Sorry so long winded, but this just happened 74 minutes ago and I had to vent.  An hour and a half before, I was shootin' four inch groups at 30 yards in the backyard.  How can an experienced bowhunter fall apart so fast and miss a deer by six feet?  God, I'm an idiot.

[ChuckC]

No comment !  

ChuckC  

[Lee Viv]

Stalked a doe in high grass field on my hands and knees for 45 minutes, she then bedded down in field.  Forced the issue by using bawl in can call, she got up, broadside at 25 yards and shot 6 inches over her!  Prefer to think of it as catch and release!


Lee  

[3Under]

Missed a "Long Nose" whitetail doe the 2nd day of Sept. season at 15 yards. Feathers must of tickled her backbone right over the boiler room. She ran into a woven wire fence twice! She came in initially and bedded down infont of me behind a hedgeapple bush for 45 minutes. She than got up and wandering into a shooting lane. I blame the high shot on my loss of blood due to all the skeeters!

[tamure]

I had a whole thread about it earlier.    

I should change my handle to BuckFever.