lucky shots

[wooddamon1]

Great stuff. Once while toting my bow along for small game on a fishing trip, I spotted a bunny under a rock overhang about 25 yards away. I told my buddy "Well, here goes this arrow..."

I had about a 5 inch horizontal opening and centered the bunny's chest from a kneeling position. I thought my buddy was gonna have a coronary he was so excited. The next weekend I missed the biggest mountain cottontail I've ever seen from 15 yards in front of 4 buddies.

At Compton last year I was shooting with a couple guys and pulled a shot. My arrow struck a glancing blow off a small tree and the fletched end went flying. When we walked up to the deer target, my tip with about 6" of the DF shaft was sticking out of the center of the ten-ring or bulls-eye or whatever it's called on a 3D deer. That was worth the broken arrow.

[gringol]

Hit a ping-pong ball three times in a row at ~20 yds.  A week later I completely missed a 150 lb boar at 15 yds.  Go figure.

[Matthew Bolton]

I was shooting in the yard one day in shorts and a white t-shirt and I spied this fella on the other side of my yard. 60 yard stalk and a 15 yard shot. He was facing straight away and the arrow took him at the base of the tail and passed out of the back of his neck with a field point.  

I honestly didn't think I could have hit him

[gordydog]

That nuthatch was many years ago and was an impossible shot,  I thought. I felt bad about that one.  I had a bobwhite running at 25 yards with only his head showing above the grass.  I could not believe it when my arrow connected with his head.  The smaller the target the better your focus.
  Once while rabbit hunting as a group we came up to our casted arrows we shot for distance.  At 30 yards we bet who could come "closest" to hitting the nock of one of the arrows.  Shooting last of 5 hunters I hit and break the nock off the arrow.  Missed several rabbits that day though.

[Tedd]

I was about 10 years old shot a pigeon off the barn roof. Shot distance was probably 40 yards with a 20lb bear fiblerglass kids bow and a mismatched arrow.

Tedd

[Tedd]

While hunting ground hogs in a bare soybean field in early spring. One spooked and ran at a distance of about 50 yards. I drew and shot as the ground hog went over a small rise running as fast as he could. I saw arrow going over the rise out of sight. Then the fletching popped up and shook. The arrow hit and killed the groundhog out of my sight! Of course the was no one around to see me jumping up and down!
Tedd

[Gdpolk]

I shot a yellow jacket in half at about 10 yards on the first shot once.  My buddy calls me the insect slayer.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I have shot many carp that had 3 on an arrow but never 4 Charlie.

This carp was all of 23 or 25 yards.  (never stepped it off lol)  I had to aim quite a bit over it.  The funny part is, my buddy ken just thinks it was a good shot.

 

[S.C. Hunter]

I got a robin hood at 35 yards, shooting at a target on a hay bale. I missed the target about 6" low of where I wanted to hit. The guys were giving me grief. I told them I hit my spot, my eyes just shifted lower at the release of the arrow. I told them to watch I'll hit the same spot again, sure enough I put one right into the back of the GT. Went to the indoor range the next day with my wheelie bow when I still owned it and got another one with that bow. That is about as lucky as it gets. I made one other robin hood about 3 months later while warming up for a 3D shoot.

[Thumper Dunker]

All my shots are lucky shots. Was walking in an orchard for squirrels and this quail pops up and flys I Thought how close I could get to it. It flew right into the arrow.
 

[Shinken]

Way to go TD!

Shoot straight, Shinken

   

[South MS Bowhunter]

Here one of many (every shot I make I think is lucky).

When I was still in the USAF stationed at Little Rock AFB and just getting into Traditional Archery I was at the base archery range with my brother who was visiting.  

While there and shooting from the elevated platform about 15’ up my hunting buddy Ted Blake who was a compound guy came by with another friend.

While introducing my brother Ted at the spur of the moment yank his camouflage jungle hat off and flung it into the air like a frisbee while saying “All right, I hear you Trad guys can shoot instinctive, shoot this and i’ll eat my hat”.

Without missing a beat I swung on the hat like leading with a shotgun and preceded to put an arrow through the center of his hat     It was fun watching him chew on his old cotton hat  

[joe skipp]

Shooting with an old hunting buddy Charlie at his house, his father had a problem with a large woodchuck eating up the garden.

We took a break from shooting and there in the garden this big chuck stands up. He was milling around but we couldn't sneak in on him. I grabbed my bow, a broadhead arrow and waited. The chuck finally walked out down a row and I shot.

Distance was probably 60 yds..the arc looked good and when the arrow hit the ground, it moved. Ran down to see my arrow centered in his body. Needless to say I never ran out of tomatoes all summer long.

[joe skipp]

My wife likes to throw bread out in the backyard for the chickadees and smaller birds. Had a problem with 2 Blue Jays that would come in and run the smaller birds off.

This one "Jay" would grab a piece of bread, then fly back to my large pine, sit on the lower limb and eat. Then fly back and repeat the process. I grabbed the bow, went outside quietly and waited.

Sure enough, the jay came in, took the bread and as he reached the limb, I was at full draw waiting. I released and the judo smacked him taking his head off. My wife knocked on the window because she happened to be watching...I just gave her that look and said.."Was there any doubt?"....She gave me one of those high signs and walked away laughing....roughly a 35 yd shot.

[Horserod]

Ya'll laugh at this one.  I was creeping up on this big ground hog in a drainage ditch while my wife was 80 yards away watching thru binoculars and giving me hand signals as to where I had to go to get a shot on this critter.  She starts waving and pointing for me to stop.  I did and started raising slowly up with my 47# Bear T.D. and Bear Razorhead ready.  What my wife couldn't indicate to me was the critter was right in front of me at the edge of the ditch which when I stood up we were face to face at 12".  I don't know who was more surprised, but, he took off for his hole like a rocket.  I quickly drew the arrow back and led him as fast as I could....he and his hole was 10 yds straight away from me.  My arrow caught him right before the hole and entered lengthwise from his butt forword.  The problem was he took the arrow and broadhead down his hole!  Now this was a good aluminum arrow with an old Bear head.  No way was I going to loose that!  While my wife was yelling and clapping her hands I yelled at her to go get me a shovel......Can ya'll see where this is going?  That's right!  I dug up what seemed to be a bomb crater in that field and never found a Ground Hog or my stinking arrow!  I was mad and flat wore out. While my wife couldn't quit laughing! I'll never do that again!    :mad:    Horserod

[BWD]

I'd have to say the shot where I got a little hung up on the string and slightly missed my target. Much to my horror, my arrow passed thru the very small cracks in two back to back wooden privacy fences, one with horizional and the other with vertical slats, before smacking the k-rap out of the trash can, that was right in front of my neighbor's Porsche.

[joe skipp]

I was young in this pic but I found a photo of the woodchuck I got "Lucky" on with that 60 yd shot in the tomato garden....   :eek:

 

[misfire]

While stump shooting with my buddy, Rodney, he put his arrow in this small broken stump at around 15-20 yds. He challanged me to hit it as well. So I did, wedging the tip of my arrow (blue one) in the same hole as his.

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