Do you normally shoot under game or over game when you miss ? I was just wondering if the average miss was high or low, Im betting high !
Under. I think I have short drawitis. :bigsmyl:
I'd bet 75% over for me :banghead:
When I have missed, it is usually low, and one time I shot at 2 six points that were fighting. When I say that I shot at 2 six points, I mean it. I shot right where I was looking...arrow went right thru their racks. I still play that one in my head every now and then. I've tried blocking it out, but it is like a bad commercial, just sticks with you.
For me, most misses from a tree stand are over. From the ground they are under.
I don't believe I have ever fully missed a deer with a trad bow. All have been left or right misses and still hit the animal. My up and down is usually right on. I have been lucky that I only failed to recover 2 of those and I feel they were not fatal wounds. Lots of tracking involved. I attribute all the misses to failing to get to good shooting form or not following through.
I've always shot low when shooting at deer. I shoot from a tree stand (which makes it odd, you'd think the arrow would go high) but I think it was because when aiming downward, I didn't bend at the waist. My draw was shortened. Not a mistake I'll make again!
I have missed both high and low but I think that the high is definitely the higher percentage. I have a motto: "A clean miss is beter than a bad hit any day!".
Biusch
High most all the time.
I shoot from the ground and most of my miss's go low. :dunno:
I now try to concentrate on the heart because when I wound it's high.
I haven't kept track, but I'm pretty certain the majority would be high. (And maybe "just a little too far back") :rolleyes:
I miss low. Either from wrongly expecting the deer or hog to crouch when I shoot, or from dropping my bow arm too soon.
High for me. I tend to over-estimate distance on game animals.
I have been shooting low.
I usually miss over.....but sometimes under :saywhat: :D
QuoteOriginally posted by Over&Under:
I usually miss over.....but sometimes under :saywhat: :D
Very Nice! Been waiting long to use that? :)
Over the top
Over, under....repeat if necessary. I shot at a monitor lizard once after 5 arrows over and under and over and under I finally decided it was too pretty to shoot and it had defied death enough times to get a pass.
The best misses are at grouse up in trees, I love to watch those arrows fly up, up and away into oblivion.
Truly though I seem to miss over the top the most. I completely missed a moose at 15 yards once right over its back...that's a hard one to live down.
Tracy, how in the world can you miss a MOOSE? I can see missing a big 6x6 elk at under 10 yards by shooting over its shoulder.... every night for the last 15 years I see that green nock sailing into the foliage, but a MOOSE? How much longer before you return home?
I usually miss low, bighorn ram, bighorn ewe, whitetails, antelope, mule deer, bears, turkey's I usually shoot over though...this is painful.
From a stand and a close shot, I miss high. I had a Doe 1/4 away on the ground once. the arrow was flying perfect and i was waiting to see it sink behind the shoulder, but she spun away at the last moment, nothing but leaves!
If i miss its always gonna be low and the problem is always "buck fever" or "doe fever" :readit: i get exited on a reare occasion and draw to about 22inches haha needless to say the deer is fine after. But like said above i will take a clean mmiss over a bad hit
All my misses have been low either from the ground or a stand. I don't understand it but I think it has a lot to do with 'Buck Fever'.
High. I find that when I have too much time to look at the animal, my nerves get the best of me and I miss my anchor and I shoot high. Every time I've been surprised and didn't have much time to think, the instincts kicked in and I hit exactly where I needed to.
Silly adrenaline...
Rusty
The last deer I missed, been awhile ago, on the ground, shot low. Didn't get to anchor! Online for sure! Excited, anticipating, had been wathing this buck for a time before the shot!
I think most who shoot high, usually do so because of the position and alertness of the animal...duck!
Another reason folks should be out shooting small game and such. Foam don't move, in the backyard! :readit:
ground level i miss low have missed 2 high but believe the deer was dunking down after i shot they both were skittish at the time
Had two chances at a doe last year, 1st shot was high and she came back to the exact same spot only 5mins later , then i shot low! :banghead:
Mostly low for me, I think I drop my arm out of the way so I can see the arrow,
Yep, to high or too low that pretty much sums it up for me! :o
I missed a buck low this past season due to my string catching on a buckle. I probably took 40 shots at squirrels this year, and only killed 12. I will say that if they had been 3 inches taller, I'd have shot 30 or more. I gave a bunch some new hairdos. I don't know if they were ducking, or if I was just missing high.
I did miss a few shots at coyotes. I'm not complaining, though. All but one of my arrows went exactly where I was looking. The shots were a little long, and they had more than enough time to get out of the way. One, was trotting at around 27 yards. He made a Barry Sanders move, and the arrow missed right in front of him.
Another was about 30 yards. He literally sprawled on the ground and the arrow went right over him.
The last miss, I skewered the limb of a blow down I was trying to shoot through.
Obviously there are misses both high and low.
My belief would be that high misses are in the majority.
From a tree, always miss over, on the ground I miss under... funny how that works.
Over the years I had determined that the bulk of my misses were high. As hard as I concentrated on the very center of the lungs, I most often would shoot too high by a couple of inches.
;) :campfire:
High
I wish I could say I have never missed.
High from a tree, low from the ground
High
High!!!!!!!!
Last year I missed having any shot opportunities - how do I grade that?
On my 3-D I invariably miss low - but often I shoot for them at longer distances than I ever hunt. Occasionally I have a real brain fart and go over the top from closer up.
Last miss on a live deer was over. * sigh *
QuoteOriginally posted by The Vanilla Gorilla:
QuoteOriginally posted by Over&Under:
I usually miss over.....but sometimes under :saywhat: :D
Very Nice! Been waiting long to use that? :) [/b]
Actually yes....it is rare a thread comes up that lends it self to that response...had to take advantage of the situation...LOL
That is how I got the handle...on an elk hunt and returned from missing the same cow twice, once high and once low...
If it's not hitting a limb or tree or something, it's almost always low.
I never miss! :saywhat:
High
Again, High!!!!
I cannot remember any misses but HIGH, never a low
Almost always low.
Almost aways high here.
High for me.
Never low that I can recall.Everytime I fail to pick a spot, I shoot right over the back.
High for me.
I usualy shoot high from a tree stand
High.......(what you mean WHEN I miss anyway? No one is supposed to KNOW!)
Ive missed exactly ONE deer in 4 decades shooting low......short draw clear over on my right side. Great big ding dang buck.....grr.
Heavier arrows and slower (old) bows have helped. :thumbsup:
SLOWbowke...heehee
God Bless
High for me
high for me out of a tree
I would have to say high. I just don't miss the deer it is the deer is not there when the arrow arrives. In other word it ducked.
Almost always over.
High....ALWAYS HIGH!!!!!!!!!
:banghead:
High!
High for me.
I usually hunt elk exclusively. They are big animals. You'd think they would be easy to hit... But being large in size and screaming at you can make you misjudge things sometimes. The one I missed I shot over him, he ran away, I bugled him back to the exact same spot, shot under him, he ran away, I bugled him back...third time was a charm. I was worn out by then! Deer I don't seem to have any problems with though.
When I miss most any shot animal or not that is 20-25 yards I would say 80% are high. Shawn
High
High,I forget to bend at the waist.
When I miss I throw the bow pretty high and far...LOl But generally my arrow goes low and to the right.
I've only ever shot at two animals since picking up the bow. Both went high. Learned a good lesson about practicing from a tree stand......never thought that "bending" could mean so much.
If the animal doesn't react I'd say I miss all over the place....consistantly! Obviously if the animal reacts I miss high.
IMO high misses are often due to animals reacting rather than archer error!
You know you've missed lots of game when you comment after the miss on how nice the arrow flew!
It really depends on which side of the branch I hit top or bottom. You know that little branch that wasn't there when you trimmed the shooting lanes. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
If I ever get a shot I'll let you know!!!!! :dunno: