Been there.... done that! Been there..... done that! Been there..... done that!
Amen to that!
will--same thing happened to me 2 weeks ago. HUGE MONSTER that I was drawn on for about 2 1/2 minutes. It still hurts and I haven' t stopped beating myself up over it every day since. I hit a branch, but YOU DID THE RIGHT THING by not taking a shot at a bad angle. I' ve passed shots on big bucks before because of the angle only to see them get shot and lost by slob hunters on the next farm using guns. Hopefully, this later rut will hold out enough for us to get those bucks that have been lucky so far! Good luck.