Bummer of a miss!

 

Why post this? “Look at me. I just wounded a deer that’s probably gonna die a slow painful death.” Go archery!

 

I post this to make people aware to check your surroundings! Things happen fast. It’s all on me for not paying attention, makes no difference how much you practice! We learn more from mistakes than successes!! Unlike some of you, I’m not perfect.

 

When you first get into the tree, it's time to start THINKING. 'If a deer comes here, I'll do this, if he comes there I'm going to do this.'

Bowmania

 

Might get an second opportunity!

 

I believe she will make it.
Mistakes are a great way to learn.

 

Yea she will survive.
Lesson learned, plan ahead, check things before the moment!

 

Sore & maybe wiser but she will live just fine. I always check limb clearance, especially when using our longer Recurves n Longbows over compounds. Good luck next time you release an arrow. Ignore the nay Sayers-hunt long enough & it will happen & we know NONE of us plan that.

 

I am sure that you are considering how you banged that top limb. Sounds like it may have been a shot from a tree stand. We need to practice more than just level ground target accuracy. Limb clearances and shot timing require experience. Did you cant your bow when taking the shot?

 

Yes. I can’t my bow. It’s all on me for not paying attention.

 

Reveranddean said a mouthful. I was talking to my great-nephew a compounder. Don't know much about his bow but much faster than what we shoot. Probably twice as fast as my bow. I asked him if he has a 20 yard pin sighted in on the ground, what's the difference being up 20 feet for that same 20 yard shot. He said about 2 inches.

If you're hunting from a treestand you'd better practice from a treestand.

Bowmania

 

As I posted somewhere else, I have run into compound shooters that have terrible results from tree stands. While on the concrete at the indoor range their sighting set up works, but steeply down from a tree stand a half hour after sunset, things can go terribly wrong. They are simply not experienced or set up to take that shot. For them I showed them Become The Arrow and for a few i set up with a recurve and had them shoot from my ladder stand in my back area, until they could make it work. I quote one kid that could not find his bow sight through his peep sight and hit a buck in the neck at 12 yards, after he made the change, then when he shot at a buck with his gifted recurve from his tree stand, "The easiest thing that i have ever done." I do not know why it is so difficult for so many to understand that shots out hunting are not the same as shots at a target on level static situations.