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Author Topic: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?  (Read 1452 times)

Offline Over&Under

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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #20 on: March 28, 2011, 10:36:00 PM »
2 years ago spot and stalk on a big muley right after a rain storm and he was out feeding....snuck right up on him broadside at 20yds, right over his back.....kills me!!!
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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #21 on: March 28, 2011, 10:38:00 PM »
For me it was the really nice buck I double lungged this past season. Hit him perfect left/right but real high. No blood trail & 1.5" rain storm that night. Looked all day the next day. Nothing. I guess 5 yards was just to close.

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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #22 on: March 28, 2011, 10:47:00 PM »
Very first shot I ever took at a deer. OLD 9 pointer down in south Texas from 10 yards...dead on broadside and went right over his back about an inch. Deer walked off. He didn't even flinch. I should have reloaded and nailed him.

Replayed that one about a million times....
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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #23 on: March 28, 2011, 10:53:00 PM »
in 2001 the shot I didnt take at a world class woodland bou in Newfound, the shot over a P & Y Bou in Quebec in 2006, the monster 12 point non typical buck in Iowa in  2008 that I knocked hair off of
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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #24 on: March 28, 2011, 11:08:00 PM »
Two years ago, we were pushing a narrow strip of woods. I was on the ground, on stand hoping to ambush a deer. All of a sudden a buck came running over a small ridge. I had to lean out of the way to not get run into. I instinctively drew to anchor and released as he went by. I think I hit him on the leg bone, because the arrow bounced back and lay one step away from me.
Literally a couple inches back and he would have been mine, I think.
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Offline Xavier

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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #25 on: March 28, 2011, 11:09:00 PM »
A few months back I was shooting at about 30 yds at a coffee to-go top with a fellow trad gang member. We shot one after the other and matched each others shot for 3 shots honing in, at first nicking the top, then nailing it. It was sweet sharing the experience - and uncanny how our shots were matched.

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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #26 on: March 28, 2011, 11:17:00 PM »
Shot a propane cylinder 2 years ago in the garage, I'd like to redo that one an hit the target this time.
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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #27 on: March 28, 2011, 11:56:00 PM »
Last fall I was getting down from my treestand. Soon as my foot hit the ground, a doe came hauling butt right in front of me. She took off then I heard grunt..grunt...grunt.
 A MASSIVE buck that had at least 8 points came bounding through the swamp and stopped 12yds away. He had a very thick chest and shoulders along with the headgear.
 When he stopped, he looked at me with this very intimidating look I had never seen from a deer before. Almost like a, "I'm going to hurt you" look. Buck fever got the best of me and I shot right over his back!!! A squirrel at that distance would have been in trouble but I managed to miss that swamp monster.  :knothead:  

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Offline Ken Taylor

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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #28 on: March 29, 2011, 12:11:00 AM »
Hmmmm, I can remember a certain moose... come to think of it there was this incredible bedded caribou that I stood beside with bow ready for about an hour too.... or maybe that old bear with only stubs for ears... oh yeah, that dark heavy beamed ten pointer that I watched make a scrape was really nice too.... hmmmm... tough question.

But then, what the heck, on the positive side, I know for sure that there will be less of those shots in the future since I passed the "half way mark" quite a while back. LOL
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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #29 on: March 29, 2011, 12:18:00 AM »
I took a shot at a doe in Vermont years ago, straight down.Just missed the spine and only took out one lung the deer went a very long ways and rain over night washed away the blood trail...Lost it:(  I felt awful, I've never taken another shot where I could not take out both lungs.....hey this is my 100th post I think. finally something good came from that shot.
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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #30 on: March 29, 2011, 12:28:00 AM »
A teenager....a black widow recurve.....a beautiful Alaskan barren ground bull caribou at under 10 yds......an arrow shot harmlessly under the vitals and buried in the tundra.....nope, I don't know nothin' about it!

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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #31 on: March 29, 2011, 12:39:00 AM »
If I could redo any of them, it would be the one where I killed my first buck with a bow.  I should have invited my dad along on that outing so he could have seen it happen.

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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #32 on: March 29, 2011, 02:34:00 AM »
The one when my Bro-in-law missed his 6pt elk in '03. Sure wish he had it in his living room. I got my 5pt that trip and I am "camp boy" till he does.
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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #33 on: March 29, 2011, 08:33:00 AM »
The one in which I shot the biggest whitetail buck I've ever drawn on... in the antlers.
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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #34 on: March 29, 2011, 08:40:00 AM »
Hmmmm.....this is a great question....one I'll have to think about....if I could have ONE back.

Oh, it wouldn't be a target shot I can tell ya that....
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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #35 on: March 29, 2011, 08:43:00 AM »
1996 first arrow of season. Still a haunting day.
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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #36 on: March 29, 2011, 08:46:00 AM »
OK...didn't take near as long as I thought.

It was a shot that I actually have no regrets on still to this day.  The arrow went exactly where it was suppose to go, right where I was looking....I was evidently looking in the wrong place.

Black Bear in the Cohutta Wilderness.  I can still see it plain as day.  Hi-backed flo-yellow nanners stobbing in a 250+ pounder at 12 yards.  I was just looking too far forward.  Like to have that shot a couple of inches to the right.

Yep...that's the one.
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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #37 on: March 29, 2011, 08:53:00 AM »
Doe I shot at 22yds uphill went just over her back,I was pumped and didn't pick a spot.
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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #38 on: March 29, 2011, 08:55:00 AM »
I have a few but the one that sticks in my mind was a P&Y class 12 point whitetail in 1972. I watched him bed down with about a dozen smaller bucks and does. Then the whole procession of deer got up, turned 45 degrees and were going to pass my tree stand. I had chip shots at some real nice bucks but the big one was at the rear. He passed by about 25-30 yards and I took my shot with a 50# Howatt Super Diablo. The shot looked GREAT but I heard a loud crack and I hit him too far forward in the shoulder bone. I saw the arrow flip out and when I recovered it it had only penetrated about 1/2 the length of the Bear Razorhead. What a great buck.
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Re: If you could redo one shot which one would it be?
« Reply #39 on: March 29, 2011, 09:03:00 AM »
Opening morning of NY's '96 southern zone.  Had a beauty of either a 9 or 10 pt(he had 5 pts on his left side) at about 20-25 yrds.  He came in at dark and hung around well into shooting light. I shot under him, total miss.
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