zekeskar

Can' t understand your question. Sounds like you could have / should have filled your tag. I don' t mean this as a criticism - we' ve all BTDT, but your description contradicts your question, imho. You' ve seen several deer within shot range. You' ve missed, chosen not to shoot and " frozen" . Therefore, it' s not your hunting techniqe but maybe shooting *if anything*. The only thing I could suggest is (1) go ahead and harvest the next legal deer you see to break the ice (don' t pass up any legal shots - really a lot of time the first one is a tough shot to make, but after that it becomes less stressful to make the shot) and (2) practice shooting more so you' ll be less likely to " freeze up" . Now if you' d said you' ve hunted two or three years without seeing a deer within shot range, I might make some suggestions. But even that could be just bad luck and not bad technique, depending on where you hunt. My final advice is keep up the good work because you' re seeing a lot of " shootable" deer. -zeke

rockytop

This is my 3rd bow season with my mathews and though I' ve hunted hard, this year is the first opportunity I' ve had to take deer with that bow and I' ve taken two. Before this dry spell, I took a couple of deer yearly with a bow and a couple with the rifle. It just goes in spells. Look at cardeer, he' s had all kind of bad luck this year.
How come you froze on the 8 point?

deerhunter1224

I dont know why I froze. I never had shot a arrow at a deer before. A real deer that is. Heck at home I hit the target about every time.

mathews2003

Could be just one of those years, last year I was ready to give up archery hunting, I missed about 5 deer (missed completely). I shoot my bow all year long at 3-d courses; I just couldnt figure it out.Now this year I have no doe tags left and only 1 buck tag, two shots, two kills. I guess it just wasn' t my time to bag a deer.Just put your time in, it will come.