3 years and nothing to show for it here other than 3 clean misses and a ton of great memories. Been busted a few times passed on a few opportunities. Missed 2 shots on does I made hundreds of times in 3-d and the other miss was plain old buck fever and a bit long by my range. (30 yards)

I say this as much as advice to you as it is preaching it to myself. Patience, patience, patience. I lost patience and blew the it on a great deer (buck fever miss) I watched him travel over 150 yards to within 30 of my stand, That was the closest he was going to get to me on the route was travelling. Had I came back a week later and repositioned my stand I might have him hanging on my wall. After shooting and missing I didn' t see him the rest of the year. In retrospect it was a shot I praticed and knew was the outermost shot of my ability and confidnce. But had I been patient I might have been able to harvest him. In my defense it was a clean miss and would never take a shot that I couldn' t realistically make. I did pass on many does before him within 10 yards so it isn' t a complete lack of patience. my other 2 misses were because of nerves.

While ground hunting I had one come up 10 yards in front of me then realized another had snuck in 5 yards in back of me. After seeing which one was bigger I missed because of looking at wrong pin. The ability to remain calm and patient would have given me the reward.

Patience and remain calm!!!