tell your bad shots

[revhard]

as bowhunters we all will mis or have bad shots. lets hear a few .

ill start. last year i had a doe and a small pointer coming to a bio logic field evey afternoon for like three days running. so i set up on them and decided if they show up that afternoon that id take the doe. well as luck would have it, it started to rain and the deer came pouring into the field. about and hour before shooting light ends, they show up. easeing into the field on a 30 yard trail, 1/4 ing away, i let it go, and as i do she steps forward fast. i nail her in the hindquarter.. she slowly tris to run out of the field, and as she dos i see my arow sticng out of her. i give her about 45 minutes hoping i hit the artery. start looking for blood and i get good muscle blood for about 75 yards then it just stops. about another 100 yards and she hits he creek and i lost her..

it happens. lets hear yours.

[Guest Mathews4]

Re: tell your bad shots

the story of the super doe....2 years ago i was hunting with my cousin...we had just parked our four wheeler and began walking to our treestands which was probably 100 yards on down the road. we walked probably 50-60 yards when a doe stood up 30 yards away. i hurried and knocked an arrow and shot. i hit here high and she deopped right there in her tracks. in about 10 minutes she began flopping and rolled to about 20 yards away and she popped her head up and was looking around a tree at us, so i shot her in the neck. instantly her head dropped. after about 5 minutes she jumped up and took off running. she would run then fall, get back up and run again. the whole time she while running she had the crazy legs. after about 3 1/2 hours we started tracking her finding good blood about every 5-10 feet. we tracked this thing for probably 1 1/2 miles and then lost the blood trail. we never did find her.

[Nick]

Re: tell your bad shots

My worst and mos heart sinking was last year. It was prime time for the rut and only a couple days before gun season. I settled into my stand for a morning hunt. The first deer that came in, came in to my right....it happened to be a buck that I decided I wanted to shoot. I stood up and completed the turn around in the tree stand without being detected being a right handed shooter. The buck posed broadside at a distance I figured was 30 yards. I settled the pin where I wanted it and let it go. The arrow hit the dead spot between the spine and vitals. After I watched him disappear into an adjacent wood lot, I got the range finder out and ranged where he was standing.... he was only 23 yards. I gave him a few hours and went tracking hoping i clipped a vital. I track that buck for close to two miles before I lost blood and sign. I scoped every open field and ditch line in the area to no avail. That was the first animal I ever wounded and never recovered. So I consider it my worst shot.