How many times have you made a bad shot on an animal? I don't mean taken a risky shot, but ahigh percentage shot and the arrow or bullet didn't hit its mark, for what ever reason or excuse. IE. a non lung or heart shot. Liver shots are not good shots even though you may have a short trail.

while it wasnt bowhunting, i was rifle hunting one time and shot a little high and got its spine.

Last year I had a doe broadside at 20. I shot a little far back. One lung and liver. She went about 150 yds. It was a tough bloodtrail but I found her. There was no GOOD reason for me to not make a better shot. I still don't know what I did wrong. I think I pulled the shot by trying to see the impact instead of following through. Rob/PA's "what to do after the shot" thread led to the recovery of that deer.

This could turn interesting.

Everyone makes a bad shot, it's how you recover and find the deer that matters then.

a couple times

Im approaching 26 years of hunting, I wish I could say never but I cant. In a perfect world I would make a prefect, clean, humane 100% accurate shot every time I let an arrow fly, but this isnt a perfect lol. I have to say at leasta fewtimes over the years, but not too many. How many times do you think a pro pitcher threw one off the mark with a permanently stationary target relatively speaking??

I'm assuming a clean miss is considered a bad shot, then? After all.....It's a worse shot (figuratively speaking) than a wound shot.

Is this waht you're after? Clean misses count, too?

No i'm talking abouthitting the animal wether you find it or not.

3 or more. Heck, when I was 14 I completely missed 5 elk, a mule deer, and a nicewhitetail all in one season. TARGET PANIC!!!! The woods looked like it was the Indian Wars all over again

I am not at all ashamed of getting so excited that I couldn't even function. Just took me a while to figure out how to control it. Now I can shoot at an animal like it is a 3D target, but I am not sure if that is necessarily a good thing. Sometimes I miss how out of control the hunt could make me.

One time. I posted the story, last year. It just happens to be the buck in the other thread I have posted.