RE: Ever missed on the first shot, and connected on the followup?
this past year actually, although it wasn't the same deer. I had a couple doe come walking in and stop right in the middle of this logging road in the absolute wide open, easy 25 yard layup shot that i've made a million times practicing. So i picked out the bigger of the two and drew back...well needless to say i zipped the arrow right over her back! This was actually the second easy shot i had missed that bow season, and i was so mad at myself, well the two doe only ran about ten yards and stopped and looked back over their shoulder. so while i'm yelling at myself in my head i start hearing crunches in the leaves the direction they are looking. So i get excited thinking their might be a buck following them, but alas its another doe. I didn't really mind though because i needed to redeem myself for the sake of my sanity, so i drew that second arrow back and forced myself to pick a tiny spot behind the shoulder and turned loose a perfect arrow right through both lungs and watched her crash 30 yards later.