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What's Your Excuse?
Uploaded on March 13, 2010This is a spinoff from a question in "Answers". The original question was "What's your worse miss?"
Everybody misses but I'd like to know your excuse for missing.
Example:
12 years ago I had a beautiful 8 pt broadside less then 10 yards away. I was at full draw with my bow and my pin rest on the lungs. A proverbial chip shot. That deer was in the freezer, on the wall and in the books. I missed low.
Excuse? My 3 year old son was sitting between my legs and I was afraid when I pulled my bow back the limbs would hit his head. I looked down. Made an adjustment and missed.
Anybody eles?
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Happened to me one time. I think I was so stunned that I just said "I missed." They say brevity is the soul of wit.
Elk hunting in Wyoming, the guide called in a huge bull from 1000 yards away.
As it stood at 38 yards, I had my 40 yard pin pegged on his vitals. I released the arrow and the string hit my sleeve. I watched in horror as the green fletches of my arrow flew right over his back.
I can still see that bull standing there and I can still see him running up the hill after the shot. Guess it was worth every penny spent on the hunt.
That is why they call it hunting...and not killing.
Good stuff!
JB
All of my misses are because of one simple reason buck fever I was to excited to shoot and pulled the trigger and missed so nerves get the best of me
Misjudged the yardage because he was out in the wide open, on the marsh. No trees or anything else to help with depth perception. Yeah...yeah, that's it
Arrow fell off the rest on one and went under a hoof. On another the miss was right after I went to different yardages on my pins - lined up the wrong pin. Took nothing but a tuft of white fur.
Great to meet you at the flyfishing expo.
Pleasure to meet you to MLH. If I get up that way again I'll let you know.
Shermanator, I tried to vote you up but it wouldn't work. ???
Shermanator got you a plus on board....
I've been there myself jerked the trigger.. Had a great shot
One of my misses deer was on the run it went low I shot high.
Aimed at head of a turkey in flight and shot over its neck....Saw the wad clear by 6 inches...Those fatboys can manuever when they need too.
Had a tree limb jump get in the way of my shot and a squirrel...Got him on the flip side though
Missed a grouse that flushed under my feet and almost caused me to wet myself...reaction shooting in that situation LOL.. Miss
iron sites on an old mauser were dialed in for the deer in the next county
Miss? What's that?
Miss is what I did when I attempted shoot that grouse shot right under him
I was about 50 yards from my then 9 year old son bowhunting. I heard him shoot so I climbed down the check on him. He missed a nice buck just low. I climbed back up my stand and about 30 minutes later I heard him shoot again. Again I climbed down to check on him. Again I found his bolt just below where the leaves show the deer running off.
There is nothing in the woods that I abhor more than a poor shoot. I gave my son a very stern speech about the importance of being a good shot and told him it'll be a cold day in heck before he was hunting again.
The following day while he was at school I shot his crossbow and discovered the pin holding the scope base was missing causing the scope to point down.
I felt so bad I went to his school just to tell him it was not his fault but the pin had fallen out of the scope base.
It's a good man who does not hesitate to right those he has wronged. Kudos to you buckhunter!
My first miss with a bow(also my first attempt at live game with a bow) was just this season. I could give many excuses: pouring rain, draw arm rubbing on the side of the blind, buck fever, etc.
But I believe the true reason I missed was lack of familiarity with the size of deer in the area. I was hunting about 20 miles north of my usual hunting grounds, where fewer hunters and better groceries result in deer with body size significantly larger than I'm used to seeing(by 30 to 60 lbs). I estimated the range of the buck to be right at 40 yds and shot right under him. When I stepped it off it was a solid 44 yds. Yep, I could use a rangefinder...
I was walking with my High Country Bow, during the 1985-86 Kentucky deer season,up a steep point to my tree stand. I decided to take a breather halfway up,as I didn't want to be all hot and sweaty after I arrived at my stand.
I was leaning on a tall oak tree, when I heard a deer kick a rock up in the creekbed directly below me. I s-l-o-w-l-y turned and saw a doe walking through the honeysuckle I had just came through.
I moved to the side of the huge oak tree, to hide my body and any movements I may have had to make. The doe was making a bee- line towards my position. I quickly had to determine on what side of the oak tree she was going to choose to arrive in my kill-zone.
She was coming at a steady pace up the steep point.
I moved my feet as quietly and softly as I possibly could to my right, to stay out of her line-of-sight.
This was becoming more intense at an alarming rate. I took 2-peeks around the tree to prepare myself. I was taking this doe out as I mouthed the words to an almost silent prayer of praise.
For me this was a new plan; spontaneity on the spot, ready or not here comes dinner!
On my last peek around the tree, I noticed the deer had paused 20-yards from the standing oak and and took one last look at what was behind her.
She moves up the face of the point towards sure death.I'm focused.
My heart is beating so loud, I think she can hear the blood pulsing through my veins.I pull the High Country back anticipating her arrival. One hundred, twenty five grain THUNDERHEAD ... DOA.
The doe is causing a cacophony of earth sounds as her hoofs move her through the leaves, twigs and acorns on the other side of the tree. I smell her now, and my concentration is even more acute.
I see her head first and it's lower than I imagined. I adjust my bow hand accordingly, finger on release ... I see the vitals on my pin and I s-q-u-e-e-z-e the release. THWACK!
The doe's large brown eyes opened wide and stared at my big blue eyes in astonishment. She was less than 2-feet from my THUNDERHEAD when I let 'er fly. She sped away, down the point, across the honeysuckle, kicking up a rock in the creekbed again.
I leaned against the hard bark to rethink what had just transpired. I saw my aluminum arrow on the ground laying in a 90 degree angle. Upon closer inspection, I soon realized I hadn't noticed a 3-inch sappling directly between me and the vitals of the doe. The THUNDERHEAD sliced the small tree, but the arrow shaft took the blunt of the blow.
I had been focused and prepared but failed to "see" the 3-inch sappling on the other side of the tree.
my most memorable miss was my first shot at a deer. she was thirty yards away, i got deer fever, pulled the front sight high and shot over her back.
my second most infamous miss was last muzzleloader season, while aiming at a doe about eighty yards away through my scope, i didnt see a small sappling about three feet infront of me and i shot the poor thing in two...
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Happened to me one time. I think I was so stunned that I just said "I missed." They say brevity is the soul of wit.
Elk hunting in Wyoming, the guide called in a huge bull from 1000 yards away.
As it stood at 38 yards, I had my 40 yard pin pegged on his vitals. I released the arrow and the string hit my sleeve. I watched in horror as the green fletches of my arrow flew right over his back.
I can still see that bull standing there and I can still see him running up the hill after the shot. Guess it was worth every penny spent on the hunt.
That is why they call it hunting...and not killing.
Good stuff!
JB
All of my misses are because of one simple reason buck fever I was to excited to shoot and pulled the trigger and missed so nerves get the best of me
Misjudged the yardage because he was out in the wide open, on the marsh. No trees or anything else to help with depth perception. Yeah...yeah, that's it
Arrow fell off the rest on one and went under a hoof. On another the miss was right after I went to different yardages on my pins - lined up the wrong pin. Took nothing but a tuft of white fur.
Great to meet you at the flyfishing expo.
Pleasure to meet you to MLH. If I get up that way again I'll let you know.
Shermanator, I tried to vote you up but it wouldn't work. ???
Shermanator got you a plus on board....
I've been there myself jerked the trigger.. Had a great shot
One of my misses deer was on the run it went low I shot high.
Aimed at head of a turkey in flight and shot over its neck....Saw the wad clear by 6 inches...Those fatboys can manuever when they need too.
Had a tree limb jump get in the way of my shot and a squirrel...Got him on the flip side though
Missed a grouse that flushed under my feet and almost caused me to wet myself...reaction shooting in that situation LOL.. Miss
iron sites on an old mauser were dialed in for the deer in the next county
Miss? What's that?
Miss is what I did when I attempted shoot that grouse shot right under him
I was about 50 yards from my then 9 year old son bowhunting. I heard him shoot so I climbed down the check on him. He missed a nice buck just low. I climbed back up my stand and about 30 minutes later I heard him shoot again. Again I climbed down to check on him. Again I found his bolt just below where the leaves show the deer running off.
There is nothing in the woods that I abhor more than a poor shoot. I gave my son a very stern speech about the importance of being a good shot and told him it'll be a cold day in heck before he was hunting again.
The following day while he was at school I shot his crossbow and discovered the pin holding the scope base was missing causing the scope to point down.
I felt so bad I went to his school just to tell him it was not his fault but the pin had fallen out of the scope base.
It's a good man who does not hesitate to right those he has wronged. Kudos to you buckhunter!
My first miss with a bow(also my first attempt at live game with a bow) was just this season. I could give many excuses: pouring rain, draw arm rubbing on the side of the blind, buck fever, etc.
But I believe the true reason I missed was lack of familiarity with the size of deer in the area. I was hunting about 20 miles north of my usual hunting grounds, where fewer hunters and better groceries result in deer with body size significantly larger than I'm used to seeing(by 30 to 60 lbs). I estimated the range of the buck to be right at 40 yds and shot right under him. When I stepped it off it was a solid 44 yds. Yep, I could use a rangefinder...
I was walking with my High Country Bow, during the 1985-86 Kentucky deer season,up a steep point to my tree stand. I decided to take a breather halfway up,as I didn't want to be all hot and sweaty after I arrived at my stand.
I was leaning on a tall oak tree, when I heard a deer kick a rock up in the creekbed directly below me. I s-l-o-w-l-y turned and saw a doe walking through the honeysuckle I had just came through.
I moved to the side of the huge oak tree, to hide my body and any movements I may have had to make. The doe was making a bee- line towards my position. I quickly had to determine on what side of the oak tree she was going to choose to arrive in my kill-zone.
She was coming at a steady pace up the steep point.
I moved my feet as quietly and softly as I possibly could to my right, to stay out of her line-of-sight.
This was becoming more intense at an alarming rate. I took 2-peeks around the tree to prepare myself. I was taking this doe out as I mouthed the words to an almost silent prayer of praise.
For me this was a new plan; spontaneity on the spot, ready or not here comes dinner!
On my last peek around the tree, I noticed the deer had paused 20-yards from the standing oak and and took one last look at what was behind her.
She moves up the face of the point towards sure death.I'm focused.
My heart is beating so loud, I think she can hear the blood pulsing through my veins.I pull the High Country back anticipating her arrival. One hundred, twenty five grain THUNDERHEAD ... DOA.
The doe is causing a cacophony of earth sounds as her hoofs move her through the leaves, twigs and acorns on the other side of the tree. I smell her now, and my concentration is even more acute.
I see her head first and it's lower than I imagined. I adjust my bow hand accordingly, finger on release ... I see the vitals on my pin and I s-q-u-e-e-z-e the release. THWACK!
The doe's large brown eyes opened wide and stared at my big blue eyes in astonishment. She was less than 2-feet from my THUNDERHEAD when I let 'er fly. She sped away, down the point, across the honeysuckle, kicking up a rock in the creekbed again.
I leaned against the hard bark to rethink what had just transpired. I saw my aluminum arrow on the ground laying in a 90 degree angle. Upon closer inspection, I soon realized I hadn't noticed a 3-inch sappling directly between me and the vitals of the doe. The THUNDERHEAD sliced the small tree, but the arrow shaft took the blunt of the blow.
I had been focused and prepared but failed to "see" the 3-inch sappling on the other side of the tree.
my most memorable miss was my first shot at a deer. she was thirty yards away, i got deer fever, pulled the front sight high and shot over her back.
my second most infamous miss was last muzzleloader season, while aiming at a doe about eighty yards away through my scope, i didnt see a small sappling about three feet infront of me and i shot the poor thing in two...
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