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anyone admit to making a terrible shot
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<blockquote data-quote="varmintH8R" data-source="post: 856446" data-attributes="member: 39801"><p>I've had a few...</p><p></p><p>A few years ago I had a cull buck that I bow-shot and pinned his hips. I recovered him but it was not a good shot and not a good feeling as I knew it took a long time for him to expire. I never figured out why it was such a bad miss - I guess I just didn't give the shot the respect it deserved, and just wasn't fully focused. It felt crappy and I try to avoid it ever happening again.</p><p></p><p>A stupid one I had when I first started hunting: I live in the shotgun zone and when I hunt here it is almost entirely with my bow. One year we get a really nice, no wind, light snow day a week into gun season. My wife is gone, so I decide to go sit in a tree. I have some slugs laying around and an old mossberg 500 with a bead sight. I figure if I keep my shots to bow range I've got no issues. About 10 minutes in I have a decent buck chasing a doe pop out in front of me and dead stop broadside at 25 yards. I line him up and slowly squeeze - BANG - drops like a rock DRT. First gun kill ever, man this is really easy they just drop. I walk up and see no hole??? It took me a bit to find the slug-sized through-and-through, dead center neck shot about 6 inches below his head. Not so good... But a good common sense lesson: if you haven't shot with it, you don't know where it shoots - *******.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="varmintH8R, post: 856446, member: 39801"] I've had a few... A few years ago I had a cull buck that I bow-shot and pinned his hips. I recovered him but it was not a good shot and not a good feeling as I knew it took a long time for him to expire. I never figured out why it was such a bad miss - I guess I just didn't give the shot the respect it deserved, and just wasn't fully focused. It felt crappy and I try to avoid it ever happening again. A stupid one I had when I first started hunting: I live in the shotgun zone and when I hunt here it is almost entirely with my bow. One year we get a really nice, no wind, light snow day a week into gun season. My wife is gone, so I decide to go sit in a tree. I have some slugs laying around and an old mossberg 500 with a bead sight. I figure if I keep my shots to bow range I've got no issues. About 10 minutes in I have a decent buck chasing a doe pop out in front of me and dead stop broadside at 25 yards. I line him up and slowly squeeze - BANG - drops like a rock DRT. First gun kill ever, man this is really easy they just drop. I walk up and see no hole??? It took me a bit to find the slug-sized through-and-through, dead center neck shot about 6 inches below his head. Not so good... But a good common sense lesson: if you haven't shot with it, you don't know where it shoots - *******. [/QUOTE]
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