Missed?
1Just my luck I guess. A calm frosty 430am, it's probably just a squirrel and anyway I can't see shit yet. A glimps of first light and the crunch of last nights cold. I can't see in the distance so I wait and prepare for what I think is a 12 point, ah...squirrel. Along the briary trail he moves, while my breath flags a new beginning. 45 yards and everything is clear now, so, pluck... Whap! Killed a Hickory. My dad, who was sitting about 75 yards from me on the 6th tee heard the shot, the jump and the deer running in his directiontoo fast for a shot, but swore it was the 8 pointer we've been watching tear up the area. Moral to the story, I missed and it hurt. To this day I'm certain that because of distance and my lack of patients the prize got away, leaving that critter enough time to flinch and drop below the arrows path. We were not trophy hunting, but it would have turned out to be if I had waited a few more steps. This deer had beams on it the size of my "use imagination"! So here's my question: Anybody miss the opportunity of a lifetime? If so, please share...