I've gone over the scenario's in my head a million times and this is pretty much what I came up with.

Yes, I shoot fixed blade Zwickey's but they are sighted in for my bow. The problem is not my sight being off, its basically that I misjudged the yardage.

The buck on Friday night I thought was 30 yards out. The top pin on my bow is good from 20-30 yards since my arrow's speed and tragectory is fairly flat out until 30 yards. I used that pin and the arrow missed under his chest cavity by about 4 inches. Obviously the shot was closer to 35 yards or so. It was deceiving since he was standing in a on open CRP field in waste-high weeds.

After that shot I began second-guessing myself as to whether or not my top pin really IS good out to 30 yards. Maybe I should've used the second pin.....

So Sunday morning comes and before I went out my dad told me that if a deer comes up the trail I'm watching that its a 25-30 yard shot. So when this big buck came out I second guessed myself when I was lining up my sites and I used the next pin down instead of the one I should've known to use. Basicall I was unconfident in my shooting ability because of my miss the other night and I didn't want to shoot under another one, so I ended up shooting over this one. Dumb mistake on my part, but I'll have to deal with it.

I spent all of yesterday afternoon practicing shots from 20-30 yards and my sights were and still are dead on, I just plain and simply screwed up. That's all.

And as much as I have had buck fever in the past and rushed my shots at deer or been unsteady trying to line them up, the more deer I get close to and the more deer I successfully harvest the easier it becomes to not get over excited. Heck, I was calm as could be both times. My brain just decided to turn itself off I guess.

Maybe it's God's way of telling me to hold out for the B&C buck I saw Friday Morning. haha.