Your doing great JCS on you traditional journey!
I missed my first shot at a doe this year on the 19th :(
First I got caught sleeping and then I didn't bear down on picking a spot and shot over her back.
If I had been paying attention and not napping I would have had a shot at 15' or so, but instead I woke up to the sound of grass being pulled up and there stands a doe right in my shooting window of my natural ground blind set. I wasn't ready.
I watched her for the next 10 minutes as she moved farther away in the food plot, she also had a yearling with her on the other side of the field.
Something spooked her and she ran back pass me but on the opposite side and I thought she was gone, but she stopped and started feeding again. I drew back and waited for her to turn broadside and then proceeded to not pick a spot and shot high.
That seems to be the story of my life
Glad you guys are having a better go at it then me, and I love reading your stories and seeing the pics.
And oh by the way Travis (Swinestalker) needs to post those recent pic's of his beautiful buck on this thread for historical purposes