How to get over missing the big one?

[Fdh]

Missed him about a minute after this video

 

[MallardSX2]

Good luck.....

I missed a deer when I was 17 years old with my bow. Got a bit of white hair off of him but that was it.

I think about that deer at least 4 times a day and that was almost 25 years ago. I still have not seen a buck in the wild that big while I was hunting, and I have done a $hit load of hunting since then.

 

[wyogoat]

I missed a solid 300ish bull the first year I moved to Wyoming over 20 years ago and I still think about it with that pit in my stomach a few times a year.
30 yards bugling and sent that arrow right over his back.
You’ll crush him when you get the next chance on him.

 

[Dos Perros]

I think about that deer at least 4 times a day and that was almost 25 years ago

 

[Tenstrike]

In September of 1987 I missed a double drop tine monster whitetail, I'm not over it.

 

[Nockemdwn]

Yeah … I know that feeling about 10 years ago during gun season.

I actually had 2 shots at the same buck but I miss judged the distance in a wide open LONG cut down corn field.

 

[kkp005]

You don’t get over it… lol.. it’ll haunt you forever unless you get another chance and kill him

 

[Laramie]

I am told that those missed can really fuel a guys fire for years and years... I haven't done it so can't speak from experience.

 

[Crowmangler]

 

[Gthar7]

It never goes away... lol

 

[PhotoHunter]

You will over it with time... Or after you miss another big one!

 

[Pharmseller]

Drink.

Heavily and often.





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[aron]

Read the Aram thread and remember it could of been worse and have the deer stolen from ya.

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[TaperPin]

As the sun got lower on the final day of the season - only two hours of legal light left, I smoked a decent buck, only to have a real wall hanger step out of a gully to see what was going on. That antelope was probably the largest one I had put eyes on in 10 years of hunting up to that point. That taught me to hunt hard until the very end of the last day and never shoot a small buck if you really want a big one. It still makes my gut hurt telling the story. Lol

 

[Mikido]

Realize you’re not hunting to survive and this is just a hobby…..

 

[kellyguinn]

Ya never really do but missing is always better than wounding. Now get out there and knock his daddy down

 

[Azone]

 

[Skerhunter]

With archery you need to have a short term memory, eventually something will go wrong and its horrible feeling. A miss is way better than a bad hit though! Use it to get better! What went wrong and practice how to not let it happen again.

 

[go_deep]

Kill a bigger one

 

[Reburn]

He isn't wounded and dying somewhere else.
Dont be a baby.
Get back out there and smoke him.