I would say with that miss he has no buisness in the woods with a recurve, he should stick with his compound and muzzleloaders.
I'm far from being a Waddell fanboy......but I have to stick up for him, here. I also watched an episode a few months back where he was hunting with a borrowed recurve (it did happen to be the same kind he shoots)....and took a nice buck with it. They showed his practice shots.......fine. I've also seen episodes where he's used the recurve with success. The shot.....left-to-right *(the big miss) was fine. He said he misjudged the distance.....and he shot over her.
As a newcomer to the traditional world.....I'm not going to be so hard on him. He didn't miss by as far as he said.
Carry on.....