DJBAD

i missed a 6 pointer this thursday three shots i took at him cause he would not move.... come to find out my gun was 5 inches off to the righjt i was not a happy camper....and it has been running through my mind ever since but all i can do is laugh....he was at 65 yards...

Gary10ec1

Missing goes with the territory when using the shotguns. Proud to say I have never missed with the rifle but I have debarked some pines with the shotgun. Keep your chin up cause that way you' ll see your next chance.

joeturse

Killed a few trees in my time,hang in there it' s all part of hunting.

Joe

Gryan

I thought you guys never missed!

Just stirring the pot, I' ve never done that before!

We all miss, when we don' t concentrate we should pray that God guides your arrow/bullet completely away from the deer, make a clean kill or a complete miss.

Greg

Georgetownboys

WOW. . . .still new to hunting, old guy from the city, 3 seasons now but catching on. I never have hunted in a place where you use shotguns for Deer but I understand why. With a long gun a miss is when he does not drop right on the spot. Yea, I have missed before, he ran 50 yards and folded, a double lung shot, a pulled a bit hard on the trigger and sure enough I shot right about 3 inches. The sweet spot of any Deer is a pretty darn big target. If you can' t hit a pie plate sized target you need more practice, walking or not. Put in those hours at the range.

Shooting at a runner makes all of us look a bit desperate and gives the ANTIS more gas.

Just my 2 cents worth.

zekeskar

I missed the first two I shot at - a caribou one fall and then a year later, a deer. Both I shot over them because I thought the bullet would drop a foot (about 100 - 150 yard shots w/ 30-06). I hadn' t shot a rifle, except for sighting in, after a lifetime of bird shooting, so I guess that explains my ignorance. The guys I sighted in with didn' t explain any of this to me, but my fault for being ignorant. But at least both were clean misses, so no harm, no foul?

After the second miss, my partner told me that rifle bullets don' t drop that much at 100-200 yards and to just aim at the boiler room. Next day, I nailed one! And haven' t missed since (seriously, I haven' t, but I' m ultra conservative at taking shots - probably to a fault, and have practiced a lot since then) -zeke

Allen Denton

I missed too, the buck of a lifetime. So of the old timers saw him earlier in the week and I got shot at him Sat. It was a quick shot on a path and I flat out missed.

mathews2003

Wlee guys sorry to hear all of the misses; But I can say that I have never missed. My bullets or arrows always hit, just sometimes not where I wanted them to, like in trees or the ground.
I just had to say that.

PaJack

If we didn' t miss every once and a while it wouldn' t be called hunting,it would be called KILLING...