Lessons from our Misses?

He came in 25 yards above me broadside but stopped between 2 trees. I had a 4'' gap to his vitals between the trees which at 25yds is a dead bull every day on the range, but I centered one of the trees.
I was working a bull in 2014 one evening. He was up on a plateau with a bunch of dog hair aspens and I was working my way up the slope on a trail. He popped up out of nowhere on me and I was stuck in the open. I froze, and he kept coming down the winding trail. There was one big tree between him and I, and I tried to draw as soon as his head passed behind the tree. He caught the movement of the last inch of my draw and stopped at 35 yards. The tree was covering most of his vital area, but I quickly studied his body and if I hugged close to the tree I had a good shot close to the <. I released and watched my arrow skip off the side of that tree, and right between his gorgeous 6x6 antlers. An inch left and he would have been down quickly.
 
Most my bad shots on critters have been from an elevated position.

Make sure your 3rd axis is good, and make sure you pull into the backwall, the bow feels like it can hold itself on the steep shots but you'll miss if you don't pull into it.
 
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