Since you always get to hear about the one that was shot I thought I would start this thread. Although I have never actually seen it practiced it's always been my understanding that when a hunter returns to camp with a story of how he missed his deer that the company in camp would cut off his shirt tail. Hence the title of this thread. Well, I'm down one shirt tail myself this morning. I had what I believe to be a doe come in front of me but the light was not enough to locate the deer in my scope. I had to let her pass. Right after, what I believe to be another doe came in front of me. Same situation. I couldn't find her in my scope. Again, shortly after that another deer is coming. This time I hear the faint sound of grunting. Here he comes right in front of me. Just as he passes and at about 20 yards I center him in my scope. Yep, I could see this one. And as I placed him in the center of the scope I saw a nice rack also. I believe it was one of the 8 points I had been filming this year. I was having a hard time seeing the cross hairs so with him centered in the scope at 20 yards I fired. I sat in the stand for 50 minutes wondering if the 245 grain Powerbelts reviews were going to pan out for me or if I would have a deer down not far away. I wasn't sure if I had connected because the smoke cloud had obscured my view, But I couldn't see how I could have missed. I wanted to wait an hour but after 50 minutes I couldn't stand it anymore. Twenty yards away all I could find was hair. Not a drop of blood to be seen anywhere. In with the hair was a strip of hair with skin attatched about 2 inches long and 1/8" wide. I spent the next 2 hours combing an area about 100 yards by 5o yards in search of the deer in case the Powerbelt had failed to pass through. I am as confident as I can be that deer has nothing more than a future scar to blame on me.