You haven't lived until you have missed a P&Y with your Recurve :banghead: ...... It was awesome and it sucked all at the same time. I'm still shaking.....
I'd be heart broken! But also would be happy to have even had the experience. Hope you get another shot at him!
I guess I must have lived then, because I have done it a couple of times. I thought it sucked more than it was awesome, but that's just me. Let's hear the story. :campfire:
Well it's been raining here seems like all week. Finally today it stopped but it was still overcast and the wind was blowing really bad. I was board so I figured I would go set for a little while. It turned it to be an awesome evening! Well almost :mad:
Slayer, it wasn't really a p&y it would of dried 1/16 inch short......so its good you let him grow one more year.
One this just a bit too small ones I practice catch and release!!!!!
Lol
About 5:30 the does started filing in. First there three, then two, then three more. I have been on a mission this year to pack my freezer but, I have to get up early in the morning, and didn't want to spend all night dressing a deer, so I was giving theses girls a free pass. They were pretty skidish anyway, I figured it was the wind.
QuoteI have to get up early in the morning, and didn't want to spend all night dressing a deer[/QB]
It was just God making sure you were not going to be cranky all day tomorrow! :dunno:
That is cool how such a thing can be awesome, but it is!
Sorry you missed him and good luck on your next outing.
Bisch
I missed my first shot at a good buck last year and it still gives me the wilies.
I feel your pain brother I missed a p&y Friday morning they ain't so common around here either.
What haunts me is I waited on a shot at a B&C because I thought I was about to get a closer shot, and ended up with no shot.
:campfire:
I missed on the best buck I've ever seen. Do tell the story!
I did it once about 1972 and still think about it. But I did bounce the Bear razorhead off of his shoulder bone so wasn't a complete miss.
Been there done that - right over the back.
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Been there done that - right over the back.
Yup. x2
You wouldnt have missed if you'd been shooting a longbow... :bigsmyl:
Bummer!
QuoteOriginally posted by Burnsie:
Been there done that - right over the back.
x3 surprisingly I got over it quickly
Wait until you miss one with your longbow. That one is really special lol!! :knothead:
Sorry about that, maybe you'll get another chance.
I've missed with both a recurve and a longbow and they both freaking suck!!!!!! Neither was P&Y deer though..lol
It don't have to be a P&Y to feel that way:) I missed a decent 5x Bull Elk at 7 paces two seasons ago, it was so cool to get a shot like that, that I didn't even care till the season was over and my freezer was empty. this year I bungled a shot on a tiny little 4x bull and was thoroughly pissed at myself and it was at least 4 or 5 times as far away. I think the reason I was mad this year was because I actually got a deer last year and had higher expectations of my shooting, lol! There is always next time!
Might be another encounter with him yet
Been there. Missed a big nine point, 130ish, at about 17steps. Just under the brisket, so close I wasn't sure I missed at first. Then an hour later center punch a doe at 26 steps. I shot five times at deer last season and the nine was the only shot that wasn't centered. So far this season we haven't got picture of him either. Hope you get another shot at him.
Chris
I had something strange happen to me 2 years ago. 145in 9pt at 15 yards, quatering away. at the shot, he turned uphill, then back down quickly, arrow disappearing into brown hide. As he ran off, i saw blood behind the shoulder, he stood downhill for 5min and trotted off. Found blood where he stood that looked bubbly (small pool, then nothing) and my arrow had a small line of blood from tip of broadhead to the back of the nock...looked and looked to no avil. that one haunts me as it's the only buck i've shot at with my recurve