RE: Made a bad shot on a good buck tonight (with video)
 

Moose,I was thinking the same thing. SB, I hope you don't mean "atleast he hit part of the deer" instead of a clean miss. Worse shot for who? The deer or the hunter?

RE: Made a bad shot on a good buck tonight (with video)
 

I think thats why he said figuratively. Obviously it would have been better if i would have missed rather than just graze him.

RE: Made a bad shot on a good buck tonight (with video)
 

Cool footage. It sparked some debate that's for sure. Not a shot I would have taken from what I could tell, but that doesn't matter much.

RE: Made a bad shot on a good buck tonight (with video)
 

Jeff I would not have taken that shot! I think it was a VERY low percentage shot. Yes we would air a clean miss.

RE: Made a bad shot on a good buck tonight (with video)
 

It's good to see that HNI hasn't changed a bit! Keep up the good humor fellas.

RE: Made a bad shot on a good buck tonight (with video)
 

you may have missed but that wasnt a terrible angle to be shooting. you definately could have hit a lung because ive seen you make a harder shot than that. you just made a bad shot and that happens to everyone. im sure you will get another opportunity this year, just make sure I am filming this time.

RE: Made a bad shot on a good buck tonight (with video)
 

The first six words on the title of the post says it all. No matter where he hit the deer and that is just my opinion. I made a quartering to shot on a very nice buck and 18 hours later I found him took him to the taxidermist and now he is on my wall. There is no way that I will ever do that again because of the time and suffering that deer went thru while trying to die. Quartering to shots are a awful idea and that is all there is to it. And if you can't see the angle at which this arrow came from I will tell you that it appears to me that the deer was quartering to at a very bad angle. I know it is just my opinion but we have to as bowhunters show are quarry the same respect that we want to be shown.

RE: Made a bad shot on a good buck tonight (with video)
 

If you're aiming to hit a barn with your arrow and your arrow nicks the barn......at least you hit the barn.

If you're aiming at a barn and completely miss the barn.....you've made a worse shot than your first one.

I said "figuratively" in my original post.

I'm still on the bubble as to whetehr or not I'd have taken that shot. I still can't be sure of the archer's TRUE relationship to the animal. That aside.....I know TV shows edit out the bad stuff. So do people coming on here. Makes me believe about half of what I hear.

Jeff

RE: Made a bad shot on a good buck tonight (with video)
 

I could be wrong, but if a deer is quartering to you, wouldn't it be safe to say that if the deer continues, it will end up presenting a broad side or quartering away shot opportunity?

RE: Made a bad shot on a good buck tonight (with video)
 

Killer that thinking works great in theory.....but I had the best buck in my woods at 4 yds.....and waited to take the shot because he was too far directly beneath me. The next view I got of him was through the slats of my Summit platform. he was directly beneath me. At this point.....he walked DIRECTLY away from me (what else could he do from that position).

I've heard people tell people not to take the straight down shot. I didn't. I don't condone it. But....when he came even closer than 4 yds......I had to give in that I probably wasn't going to get a shot at him, THAT DAY.

I'm not so sure the shot that was presented to the author was that bad of an angle. I wasn;t there.

jeff