If you could redo one shot which one would it be?

[Birdbow]

Mine came on a Maine moose hunt. A young bull came in to the calls on a woods road to a whopping 4 yds.!! Was kneeling on the roadside slightly downhill from him as he left the road broadside. I dutifully waited for the near leg to swing forward and buried the arrow at an upward angle about 8" up, tight behind the leg. Sure it was a heart shot - proved to be brisket. Learned much about moose anatomy that day.

[longarrow]

If I could have one shot to do over, it wouldn't be one that I took. Avery good friend of mine, whom I invite to my place every year....Had a shot at a 150+ class WT @ 17 yards a couple of years ago. The shot was about 4" over his back! I was sittin' in a ground blind about 40 yards aways. When Bill took the shot and missed, I saw his quiver come flying from the tree stand, then his fanny pack! I was waitin' for the bow to be next!

[wixwood]

I've had a few but found that I learned something from ea. experience that made me a better hunter.

But, the one that I really hope to get a second chance on is the 2006 do it yourself trip w/ 3 friends to the Haul Road. I had a Caribou Bull (not huge or even real big but still a do it yourself caribou in Alaska!) at 25 yds broadside. Rushed the shot and put it 2' over his back. Just writing this brings back that damn "inner ouch" feeling.

[Lechwe]

3 years ago went right under a 130 class piebald at 13 yards. Would really like to try that one again.

[Dusty Nethery]

Painful memories, huh?

My story:

Had a very, very big eight point magically appear 15 yards downwind. Hurried needlessly and shot under him. I felt physically ill.

Did not nock another arrow and proceeded to hang my head and pout. Two minutes later I hear a guttural grunt northwest of my position. Two does, followed by a spike raced past. Forty yards behind is the big eight.

"You messed up this time. You are not gonna get by me twice," I thought. HA!

Missed the same buck twice in two minutes.

[Friend]

Hopefully, not my next.

[Chad Duit]

I had a big non typical whitetail come by me one morning at a fast walk and about 25 yards out. I shot right in front of his chest, if I had it to do again I wouldn't have taken the shot . I was confident to 20 yards , but 25 was too far for me. I missed him clean, but I learned a lesson that morning!

[KSdan]

14 yards- 175"+ Non-typ buck.  Was sure I had him. Checkmate!!!  As I drew I looked at the whole shoulder. . . over his back!  I will forever be sick.        

[L. E. Carroll]

The 5x5 Roosevelt Bull I shot under last fall... I had him quickly figured at about 23-26 yards.. His size and the size of his rack, was very decieving!!! After pacing it off while going to retrieve the arrow that had just passed 1/2" or so under his chest on a slightly down hill shot... I took 32 long paces to get to it.      

Gene   :rolleyes:

[Phillip Fields]

July 2003, Limpopo Province, South Africa. My first day in a blind in Africa. I had been watching two kudu bulls out in the bush and the bigger one finally came in. He gave me a broadside shot and I hit him low in the brisket.He was farther away than I thought.

[YORNOC]

Monsterous woodland caribou in Newfoundland. Went against all my instincts and practice and took a 38 yard shot at a moving animal. Never found him, the guide wanted to move on the next day to hunt another. I said no, my tag was filled, tipped him and looked for my animal the remaining three days of the hunt. Rained every day, blood was long gone.

  HARD lesson for me.

[paperenginner]

Last year was my first year using my recurve all season.  I still have my compound but was hoping to use my recurve on a doe early for my first traditional harvest.  Well instead of a mature doe I had this 5 1/2 yr old 8 pointer that probably grosses 150's.  I have watched him for the past two years.  The good part was my first shot went exactly where I was looking as it should since I shoot instictively.  The part that I would like to redo is to stare at his shoulder and not his rack!  It rattled around and lodged behind the other side.  The best part is he ran past my trail camera and gave me this picture as my only trophy.  I am still waiting on my first traditional harvest.

 

[CRS]

1994 Archery elk season.

I had been shooting compounds and was going to switch to traditional.  I ended up drawing an archery elk tag and fell back on my compound.

What a fantastic season, hunt of a lifetime.  I had a raghorn elk broadside at 12 yards.  I muffed the shot, went high and spent three days looking for him.  Never found him.

So my redo would have been to switch traditional and have that first Browning recurve in my hands at the moment of truth.  I still remember that dang pin buried on the spot tight and low behind the front leg.  I can't figure out how I shot 18" high.  

After the elk season I switched to tradtional and have not looked back.  Just wish I would have had the confidence to convert a couple months earlier.

[Bonebuster]

Jackson county Michigan...November 5th, 1995.

I had shared permission with my brother in law on a small tract of private land. 20 acres.

I was on the ground in some thick stuff near a deep drainage ditch. Soybeans, and corn EVERYWHERE around us. I could see across a field to a woodlot, and I could actually see another bowhunter in a treestand on the neighborring property.

A doe walks out of the timber right under the bowhunter in the treestand. I actually WATCHED him draw and miss the doe. She bolts and runs straight towards me. Suddenly, a mass of deer hide and antlers busts out of the woodlot, and is following the doe. They are on the beaten path through the soybeans that leads straight to me.

The doe jumps the fence, goes down into the deep ditch and seems to wait for the buck. She is ten yards from me. The buck follows. They come up and filter past me.

Using my Super Diablo, I put my Zwickey tipped arrow through both lungs. When he spun, I could see blood flying. Back down into the ditch, over the fence, and about eighty yards into the field...he goes down. The other "bowhunter" is almost already to "my" deer. To my surprise, he begins screaming that I cannot come onto that property to get my deer, as he continues all the way to the fence. The beans are too tall to see the deer, but I know right where it is. I just can`t go get it. Physically, the "bowhunter" would NEVER be able to stop me from getting my deer, but I decided to use my head and do it the "right" way.

Instead of causing a problem, I decided to call the county sherrif for help. On the phone I was told that I indeed cannot retrieve my deer without the landowners permission. The next day a Conservation officer responded, and I was able to finally get ahold of the landowner and DID get permission. The deer was gone.

That is the ONE shot I wish I could redo, and turn it into the shot that never was.

[straitera]

Kingwood was being developed (not one house built as yet, 1977?) & my bud was surveying through the Big Thicket. Deer everywhere he said. LSS, before daylight we started walking down a survey road w/barbed wire fence border. Stopped & set my portable stool 10-15 yards off the road behind a big bush not expecting to see much & not even trying to be quiet. A flicker above my eyes (my head was down) revealed a BIG buck walking away other side of the fence. Soon, he turned & walked straight towards me to the fence. Heart was beating jackhammers! That's where I saw his Monster rack! Bosses like BB bats. Easy largest I've ever shot at. Like a small elk. He went UNDER the fence onto the lane broadside at 13 yards. Drew the alum arrow. It squealed when drawn on the hard plastic covered flipper rest. WHAT..RUBSNme!!? Hit anchor & released what I knew to be perfect heart shot. This Monster deer dipped 2' easy completely to the ground! His torso actually hit the dirt! The arrow cut tophairs just high over his dipped backbone at 13 yards! Impossible! He snorted, farted, & high stepped (not ran) straight away down the lane quartering away. Could have shot again...didn't. Too flustered. Made every mistake in the book. TYL for this experience!

[Arrowhead80]

I shot over a huge 4x4 heavy horned tall tined bull elk at 30 yards with my compound in 2000 and still get pissed thinking of it. He was walking and i rushed the shot.