The biggest whitetail you ever missed

joevan125 · December 12, 2011, 10:08:00 AM

Been shooting trad for 3 years now and the very first time i hunted with a recurve i had a 110in 10 pointer come in behind me to my left and stopped 12 yards away.

I have shot a ton of deer with a wheel bow but nothing has ever came close to how excited i got even though he jumped the string.

The next weekend i shot and killed a nice fat 8 pointer at 28 yards from the ground and saw him fall, man what a feeling.

lablover · December 12, 2011, 10:24:00 AM

Very, very, nice 8 point, probably a 150's class buck. Missed him at 15 yards, looked up at the rack one last time and that was exactly where the arrow went. Man just wanted to jump up and down and scream. Oh well. Love to tell you that was back in the days before I learned better, but it was just this year. Guess I'll never learn.Sure had my heart going though.

straight_arrow · December 12, 2011, 10:28:00 AM

If you haven't misseed, you haven't hunted very much. Congrats on the 8 pointer!

RM81 · December 12, 2011, 10:34:00 AM

Missed a mainframe 10 pointer with about 4 or 5 extra points earlier this season. Somewhere between 150"-160". Shot was in line with the vitals but about 4 inches over his back. Completely my fault.

Danny Rowan · December 12, 2011, 10:49:00 AM

Big 12 point and a big 10 point in 2010. Misses happen if you hunt enough, sometimes in the heat of the moment we do not do what we are supposed to do,LOL.

KellyG · December 12, 2011, 10:55:00 AM

This is my first trad year, I missed a buck bodied 8 pointer and a small doe the same day I kill my big 10. I am sure I will miss many more with trad gear.

nlester · December 12, 2011, 11:02:00 AM

Missed a 180+ at 20 yds with a recurve....biggest deer I've ever seen on hoof. It still gives me nightmares.

jeanpaul3006 · December 12, 2011, 11:08:00 AM

170 class whitetail, 10 yards, hit a small twig and arrow landed at his feet. I've replayed that scene many times in my head. Never saw that buck again.

centaur · December 12, 2011, 11:10:00 AM

No big whitetails to speak of, but I managed to blow a couple of shots at mule deer that would have scored in the 170s or more. One was at about 10 yards after a very long stalk.

December 12, 2011, 11:11:00 AM

I have missed a lot of deer but the biggest would have to be a nice 8 point a few years ago. The biggest animal I have ever missed was a Kudu bull in Africa. I was heartbroken but got lucky because he came back in and I did not miss on the second chance.

Bisch

30coupe · December 12, 2011, 11:33:00 AM

This fall I hit a twig that I had not noticed and watched my arrow go up and wag its tail over the back of the nicest buck I've had in shooting range. I don't really look at the rack much once I decide I'm going to take a shot, so I have no idea how many points he had...plenty, I'd say. He was also a really big bodied deer. We get lots of those here, but the shotgun boys have a hard time letting them get old enough to know that most of the time.

Caleb the bow breaker · December 12, 2011, 11:46:00 AM

I am not sure on that one. I do know that every time I tell the story he gets a little bigger. At some point I am going to have to say that it was an elk that walked under my stand. LOL

Bishop · December 12, 2011, 11:51:00 AM

A big tall tined wide 10. I normally draw 29" but on that shot I drew 24". Shot right under him at 20 yards

Gentry · December 12, 2011, 11:55:00 AM

I missed this guy 2 times in the three years that I hunted him both shots should have been chip shots. Then I found him dead last spring. Somethings just are not made to be.

Morning Star · December 12, 2011, 12:07:00 PM

This 23rd of November, I separated a true giant from some of his chest hair. A solid 170" typical with at least another 20" of junk going everywhere. I'm still nauseated.

:D

Had a great season none the less!

steadman · December 12, 2011, 12:30:00 PM

whitetail, a doe. Muleys are a whole nuther story. I have missed 2 that haunt me, a legitimate 180" muley and a one horned non typical that if he had both sides would have been pushing 40". I miss the good ole days for muleys for sure.

Edit: I should say does hehe

doug77 · December 12, 2011, 01:03:00 PM

In '92 I choked bad on a southern GIANT Iowa whitetail. The farmer killed him that fall with a shotgun. He scored just over 190. I hated myself for the longest time untill I realized how LUCKY I was to even get crack at him. I missed him at a whopping 12 yards away broadside. He looked like a pickket fence coming through the timber with 14 perftic points.

doug77

ron w · December 12, 2011, 01:24:00 PM

Biggest whitetail, 4 pointer would have scored around 15 or 16".....1971 with a Browning Nomad Stalker.........last shot I had!!

Orion · December 12, 2011, 01:25:00 PM

I don't want to talk about it.

Missed a pretty nice 10-point this year. Not the first nice deer I've missed, but I hadn't missed one in a while. It stings.

Tom Leemans · December 12, 2011, 01:27:00 PM

Last fall during a rather windy day. As soon as the arrow cleared the tree line, it started taking a hard left. The fletch brushed his butt. It's amazing how high and how quick a buck pushing 250# can jump up and do a 180 in mid air and land to see what just goosed him. How big was he? He was one of those that you know immediately is a big un'.