Don't ya just hate it when.....

[SuperK]

All deer season it seems like every deer I have dropped a string on was wired like they were on a caffine/chocolate high.  Ya'll know what I mean..the arrows going right there but they ain't there when the arrow gets there. Jumping the string; ducking, what ever you want to call it, they are getting out-of-the way of the arrow.  Every shot I'm missing high.  Now, I must confess; some of them have been my fault...but not all of them.  Even the deer that I have gotten this year have been hit high. Well, I read some threads here on Tradgang where some others were having the same problems.  Most of ya'll stated that you aim lower on the deer.  I do that also.  I guess not low enough though.  Then I read where Terry Green aims at the very bottom of the chest on Texas deer.  Makes sense to me. Well this afternoon, here comes a pretty doe slipping through the woods towards me.  When I see that it looks like I'm going to get a shot, I remind myself to aim at the chest line.  Yes sir, I ain't going to airmail one over this gals back.  She comes in like I had her on a string.  She hits my shooting lane, stops and looks the other way.  Perfect quartering away angle.  I focus on the very bottom of her chest,  pull'er back and cut it loose.  You'll never guess what happened.  She didn't move a muscle.  No dropping, no dipping, no squating, no nothing.  She stood there like a beatiful brown statue.  My arrow just missed under her chest.  

[bowhunterfrompast]

Just when you get it figured out, look what happens    and have fun.

[trapperDave]

[Brian Krebs]

nervous muledeer will slide ~forward~ instead of dropping down. Then there are hybrid whitetail/muledeer.... I figure tomorrow I will find out what they do...  

[toot]

The hybrid whitetail/muledeer just "freeze.."

Expecting you to anticipate the ol' "duck, bob, n slide"..

They've learned that if they stand still they are safe..

Toot

[Eric Krewson]

I think deer hear the arrow coming and act accordingly.

I had one under my tree once. I took the shot and she made a quick U shape out of her body letting the arrow pass through the center of the U with out touching a hair.

[Orion]

The same thing cost my hunting partner a very large buck a few years ago.  I try to shoot low in the chest, but never hold on the brisket or lower, which will still get the deer if it drops down to run.  I think at least as many high hits and misses are caused by the bowhunter shooting high as by the deer dropping to run.  At least that's my case.  I try to shoot low on the animal, but sometime I just don't get it done.

[SoNevada Archer]

That's why I'm still an advocate of shooting a slightly lighter arrow and gaining the extra speed that comes with it.
Sorry to hear about your miss dude!