Missed!

[dave-t.]

I had a pretty nice buck at 35yrds this morning at first light. 5 on one side, could tell much about the other side, some may have been broke off. I tried threading the needle through a low hanging limb as he was at a decent walk, and hit a twig/limb. No blood on the ground, and through the trees 60+yrds out the buck showed no sign of damage. Nothing but a clipped and swinging limb to show for it. Ugh.

Biggest deer I've ever seen on my place, and very well could be one I had an encounter with and passed on in the '08 bow season.

The only up side is that if he makes it through this last weekend of gun season, he'll just be that much bigger next year.


I have never missing one that close though, and it don't feel good.:(

[purple heart]

As they say" If you ain't ever missed one than you ain't ever hunted much".

Welcome to the club. I should be a top ranked member. I've missed with a
bow, rifle, and muzzleloader. :o

[MOGC]

Sorry to hear it Dave. It happens to the best of us. I got caught peeing today with my you-know-what in hand when a fairly nice buck walked over a knoll 30 yards away... my rifle was three steps behind me. Oh boy... :(

[Sabre]

Sorry to hear it Dave. It happens to the best of us. I got caught peeing today with my you-know-what in hand when a fairly nice buck walked over a knoll 30 yards away... my rifle was three steps behind me. Oh boy... :( That struck me funny as hell cuz the same exact thing happened to me one year.:D

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

When my boys were younger and we had hunted for a while and not seen a deer I'd tell them, "Alright guys, you know what we have to do." I don't know that it ever worked, but they got a kick out of it. It certainly happened more than once that after sitting for hours, I'd stand up and arch a stream out of the blind to find a deer that I hadn't seen before, standing there watching me. Now, up in my blind I have a funnel with a piece of surgical tubing running down to the ground. All the comforts of home!

Alan

[Herne]

Dave - do I have this right?I really apologise if I don't.

Who used the fuller target last winter - someone did, and with a 6.5 I think?

[dave-t.]

I'm not sure what a fuller target is.

I was using a .44 mag carbine, thinking that the farthest shot I would get was 70yrds or so. I missed this deer at 35yrds, hit a limb about 6yrds from me.

I was aiming for the hole in the limbs, thinking back on it, I should have aimed a little high of the hole at that distance.

[Twanger]

That's a bummer Dave - chances on big bucks are few and far between.
I generally get ONE chance at a good buck each year.

No pressure during that shot! :eek:

[dave-t.]

This is going to sound goofy, but I think I would have been better off if I would have had the bow instead of the rifle. It would have forced me to wait for a better shot. I don't take shots at moving deer through brush with a bow, but I thought I could slip the bullet in there.:confused: