I missed one last year for the first time since I was a kid...not because I'm a great shot but because I take shots I can make. Similar conditions wind and snow and I knew when I pulled the trigger I missed him. I went back to look 3 different times.

End result is yep I really missed...found his sheds that Feb.

3 or 4 years ago we had a 190" buck with a 9 inch drop tine on the farm. I spotted him running a doe after getting out of my stand opening morning so I circled to cut them off and got down in the thicket I thought they would end up in. I waited and waited , thought I'd guessed wrong but nope here they came right by me just after I had kind of given up so it was full on panic mode. I pulled the trigger 3 times then took the gun off safety and pulled the trigger again and finally sent a slug at him. He never flinched or changed course within my sight. I went to look for blood kind of discouraged that I had screwed it up and before I could find blood there he laid.