ORIGINAL: Buster T
bigcountry I passed on ........ maybe 20-25 shots on bucks this year. Probably 3-4 were P&Y, the biggest being maybe 160". I passed shots from 2 yards from the base of my tree out to where ever I could have shot. Lots of 10 yard shots I passed. I finally took 1 shot - a can't frickin miss 22 yard absolute gorgeous broadside shot - and I hit the deer high.
Compare to a guy I know that shoots a fast walking buck quartered to him at 20 yards in the brush - he thought he could sqeeze and arrow through, and liver/gut shot the deer on a deflected shot.
Which was the better shot ? Mine was - which led to a dead deer ? His
Which leads me back full circle ........ are there REALLY good shots and are there really BAD shots ? Or are there just shots that end one way or the other ?
Its apparent to me
bigcountrythat you don't really KNOW what you beieve. You think you do, you post that you do, but when challenges to explain WHY you believe what you do ? You dance around it and bow out of the thread by tossing around afew light heared jabs.
I LIKE to think WHY ........ I'm not content with just believing something for the giggles of it. Sorry you don't get that ......
Oh, you can ask why. Nothing wrong with that. Its just when it gets to the point, that you want to convince others and persistently try.
You ask what one thinks, and one tells you. You have two choices, accept that he feels differently, and say "I don't understand your thought process" and try to convince yourself that your right. You 90% of the time always take the latter. The world is not black and white as you want to believe. The right answer is most of the time, "it depends".
A good shot for me is not the same as someone else. A good shot for me, is, I have a 90% confindence that when I let that arrow go, I will hit vitals and find a dead deer. Too many bow hunters, especially young compounders, do not have this 90% confidense. They hope and pray. They push the shot. I have done it before. In fact, I did it this year. I regretted it. But finally found the deer and saved the meat. But then the easiest shot of my life came in Nov. 18 yards away, I watched a doe for over 1/2 hour. I needed a doe badly to get another buck tag. All the sudden its wide open, clear shot. I fired. I got a complete pass thru. She walked around me and bedded. I thought to myself, this is a give me. Well, I came out of the tree 30 min later cause it was dead dark, but could see see was only 45 yards away still. As soon as my foot hit the ground, she jumped. We looked for that deer until 10PM. Finally found her days later. She went far and long. I hit too far back, and the arrow hit the back of one lung, and then into the guts.
What I am saying is, every archer should have a 90% confidense feeling before letting it fly. But even that doesn't get the job done sometime.