Proper excuses for a waning season.

[el_kirk]

I agree, great thread.  I like anything tongue in cheek.
How about,

I'm still tuning my setup, so I never got out.

Could only get 26 degrees, not 25, on my single bevel broadheads.  (I shoot Grizzlies and felt like this at first)

Deer just too darn cute to shoot this time.

Couldn't decide if I wanted to hunt from the ground or a tree, deer came by as I was arguing with myself.

Thought I heard an elk bugle in the distance.

My camo socks were dirty and the deer can see my normal Sesame Street ones from a mile away.

Got beat up by a badger for wearing goofy Sesame Street socks.

Game and Fish hauled me in for harassing wildlife (they saw the deal with the badger).

If you use any of these, SEEK HELP!  YOUR NOCK IS TOO LOOSE.

[moose eye levi]

I'm left eye dominant

I shoot a purple bow (purple heart and curly maple)

broadheads are to sharp

I picked the wrong spot

That tree had great tine length

The neighbors horses got out

Squirrels are tooo tempting

My woodies warped

[Curveman]

The deer moved. ("my shot sucked" doesn't sound as good)!  :D

[IndianaBowman]

Last year's young doe nearly pulled me out of my deer stand when it got tangled in the pull cord and made me shoot high! This one is actually true!

[razorback]

My woodies warped

 
Sorry to hear that Moose, hope you get it straightened out.    

[Arrow4Christ]

It was just too friggin' cute!    :rolleyes:
I felt the shot was too easy.

Craig

[John Krause]

Recovering from heart bypass surgery on 10/22  

[Nor'easter]

With this warm weather the deer just aren't moving.

Leaves are really holding on this year, ya can't see 10 yards.

[Mo. Huntin]

I don't really have the money to get a big buck mounted right now anyway.  I like the badger one and a couple others but I can't go back and look or I will have to type all this again.

[Ray Hammond]

If your makin excuses before the last minute of the last day I'm pretty sure THATs the reason you NEEd excuses

just go get it done!    

[Earl E. Nov...mber]

I don't think I saw anyone say they used the wrong pin..
That has to be a classic from "The other side"

[Jerry Jeffer]

The deer always showed up in the waning darkness just before first shooting light.

[Brent Rudolph]

Got a hunting buddy that named his selfbow El Nino. He said, "El Nino gets blamed for everything, so I got a built in excuse for a miss." I'm going with unclewhit-

El Nino

[Shedrock]

Season is way to short. We have September and ten days during the general rifle season in my areas.

[kevgsp]

It's getting dark and I only have a maglite

I had too much FOC

My broadheads are $17 each, couldn't risk losing one

I must have reached the point of diminishing returns

Was to busy shooting stumps

[Tom Leemans]

global warming

[George D. Stout]

The only time I had too much front of center, was the time I hunted right after Thanksgiving dinner 8^).  

Earl E. Nov...mber,  I heard that quite a bit back in the 60's and 70's from the guys.

I like the one my friend Roger always said, "I missed him the first shot, and hit him the same place with the second shot!"

[swampbuck]

Of the handful of deer I've seen this season only 1 has been in range and she caught me drawing

There has been a crap load of standing corn

It has been to warm esspecially on the weekends when I can get out

AND the biggie for the swamp that is the main reason why there's always a big 1 or 2 in there...

...the wind blows from every direction and I mean every direction within an hr. A constant or even semi constant wind is almost unheard of

[xtrema312]

Well my current excuse for not shooting something in the last week is that the freezer space is getting limited.  

Earlier in the season the weather constantly played havoc on the hunting.  I hunted every possible wind direction and usually more than on each day.  I have never seen so much easterly wind.  It rained and blew at least 75% of the days I had off to hunt.  It was too cold and rainy early season.  Too warm now.  The corn is still up.  My cross bow hunting relatives are driving me and the deer crazy with their quad and all the running around they are doing trying to arrow a deer.

[blind one]

I saw a big one, but had my bibs open peeing when he got close enough to shoot....Heard this yesterday.....Roy