and missed.if you don't pick a spot you will miss i found out.i shot at the whole deer.i shot a tree rat 5 min later in the head.

Been thier done that.  

yep, for sure. I've done it five times so far this season!!You keep at it and so will I.

I missed more then a couple before I got my first deer with Trad gear.

I can't remember where I read this but I like it, and I do it -
"I did pick a spot, it was 4 feet long, 2 feet high, and brown"

I did it twice on the same buck last year. Im hoping for my first trad deer this year...

I think all 21,000 of us have been there at some time.I KNOW I have.

Me Too.......

Experience 101.

In 74 I missed my first shot at a deer from 5 yards, on the ground. She was standing behind a boulder with her vitals exposed, I hit the boulder. I followed this bad shot with by sticking a razorhead in a tree about 1" from a squirrels head at 50yds.

When I came back to trad in 89, I killed the first 2 deer I shot at and missed the next 11. I then got interested in 3D shoots which train you to pick a spot.

If I draw on a deer now it is going to the freezer. I pick my shots carefully and let everything walk that is further away than 20yds or isn't either broadside or slightly quartering away. I also pass on a deer looking at me, also a very low percentage shot.

Kasey we all miss it all part of the fun hang in there.Blake

Kasey,
Don't let it get you down. Missing is part of the begining experience. The first time I went out with my stickbow I missed the biggest buck I had ever had a chance at: at the great distance of 5 yards!

Yep..me to.

I mmmmmmissed once...I remember it.

yep I've educated a lot of critters by not picking a spot!

Kasey!It's called catch and release.I practice this annually in order to preserve tags.Nothing worse then running out of tags.  

can't say I've ever missed a shot at a deer. Can't say I've hit any either. Probably should let go of the string sometime.
:D        :D

Can't say I've missed a deer either. I HAVE, just can't say it.....  

A couple of years ago I missed a doe three times at 15yrds before she got bored and walked to the other side of the tree, she never even knew I was shooting at her...it happens...the next day I shot her through the heart and 30yrds, through the fork of a tree. Go figure. There are days when you just have to set the bow down and walk away. I was practicing once and I missed a round bale...from 10 yards, now thats embarrassing. We all have those days. Keep after it and you will know success.
                       -H.

Missed a few too........