Practicing and hunting are two different things. The real deal is way different. Do you get excited when practicing? You've got to keep it all together at the moment of truth. Nobody is perfect and I would rather miss the deer than make a bad hit and not find it. I don't think the rain would effect the arrow that bad, but that I don't know because I haven't shot at a deer in the rain. It's too bad you missed but it's life. I think it just wasn't her time to go. Better luck next time!