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Well I have to say my worse miss on game to date was in 2005 I was a shooting machine told the guys at the camp over a few beers I sould not miss a thing this year been shoting lots!
Well 2nd last day of the hunt 8:30 am been hearing this buck rut up about 200 yards in and coming down his trail about 50 yards and he would be out on the old skidding trail and close. This deer was inn slow motion guys i mean turtle speed I could have hit him with a rock LOL!
well 45 mins later here he comes slow steps out on the road, I am sitting dowm facing him a Whole 20 yards awayLOL! i picked up my 338 wm (ya its bid enought) and yet her roar! Well the next thing to hit me squre in the head was a 3" maple tree I blew clean off never seen it the buck looked at me and bailer her , I had to laugh but it was a nice 5x5 buck perfect rack 125-130 class lol!
Did i miss lol have no clue how i hit that tree never even seen it!

Later that after noon I took that gun to the range and shot a 1 inch group lol dead nuts at 100yards LOL Sure I will blame the gun.

Oh I forgot to mention a little buck feaver set in LOL!!! Gosh it gets me everytime i hear them come slow like that
 
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Too many to count, but the time a 6x7 bull elk poked it's head around a tree and looked at me from 3 yards away, I lifted the rifle to see a scope full of brown fuzz and jerked the trigger on a rifle with the safety on was pretty good.

Several 15 and 20 yard misses through a scope too.
 
I've had some of my own, but the most memorable actually happened this season. I've never shot a real huge WT buck in my entire life. I've now resolved myself to hunt and hold back until a real monster comes along. I was elk hunting with my buddy. After a long day's search we decided to head back into camp and travel through some good WT territory. As I was riding just inside a poplar stand, something caught my eye just to my left, it was a WT buck with a superb rack and he was only 35 or so yards away. I slowly dismounted, slid the .444 out of the scabbard and pleaded with my horse to be still. The buck just stood broadside and stared at me. I lifted the .444 and put the crosshairs a bit high on the front shoulder because the lower bolier room area was hidden behind some poplar branches. I let the .444 rip, horse stepped back a few steps. I figured that I had him for sure. My friend and I looked for blood or signs for a good two hours....nadda. Clean miss. On sunday, I checked and found out that the rifle was shooting 6" high at 100 yds. Made and adjustment and took a small bull elk the very next day.
 
I was shooting the Canuck IPSC National champs, a multi day event, and at the toy tables found a neat HARRTS Mercury filled gude rod that fit my .45 match gun.
NEATO!!

I test fired it a few times real slow and careful , point of aim seemed the same. I decided I couldn't really feel much difference in the recoil, but hey ... it was just another high quality full length guide rod, so I'd keep it in for the rest of the match.

Next stage, a quick and dirty, with 3 Bzone only above "hostage/noshoots" I hosed down the sage ... felt great.

Until I went to score and found three NO SHOOT hits.

Apparently that mercury guide rod actually does work to keep the second shot of a double tap a few inches lower than before.
OOOOPS!!!!
LAZ 1
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In 2005, I had hunted hard for a ram,,,19 days.

Long story:

On the last hour of the last day of the season, I took a shot at a beautiful ram. We spotted them, gave chase, and then I slithered down the rocks. I was perched in a cliff chimney, 400+ yards away from him. The angle was steep, very steep. He was with some other smaller rams and they were mingling together.

Just as I got a nice steady rest, one leg stretched across the chimney, rifle on a ledge with a sweater padding it, he stepped into the clear, and I had only a moment to shoot. I forgot abotu the angle, and shot over him. At the shot, he jumped into a depression, behind some brush. Thinking I had hit him, and he was laying down (my partner later told me he was standing, but I coudln't see him) I held the same and shot again, and he disspapeared behind the brush, and I thought I had him.

I climbed back up and my partner is yelling at me: You shot over him!! I snuck around the cornice he was on, and sure enough, he was mizxed in with the ewes again. I lay down, ready, but he never gave me a perfectly clear shot, and the risk of hitting a ewe was too high. Eventually they rounded the corner, and darkness came.

I honestly was considering turning the rifle on myself the whole journey home.:p
 
My worst miss was on my first buck. I was much younger then and much like JasonYuke, I felt that I was well-practiced and ready to shoot the nuts off a gnat at 500 yards;) So, while the young buck stood broadside in a wide-open meadow at 50 yards, I took careful aim and squeezed off a shot with my scoped .270. To my utter disbelief he did not fall, flinch or otherwise move a muscle :eek:. The hunting gods were on my side that morning because, rather than run for cover, the buck stood (probably waiting for the ringing in his ears to stop:rolleyes:) and let me put my 2nd shot into his boiler room :) I still have no idea where that first shot might have went:redface:

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I had a Win M-670 in 30-06 many yrs ago to hunt moose with. Used to leave it every night at the house of a guy I hunted with to save draggin it back & force in the evening & mornin in the truck. Snuck up on a nice young bull one afternoon in a dry marsh & at about 175 yds open fire, thought I had that guy easy :) I fired 1-2-3 times & that moose never even looked at me :confused: OK it farther away than I thought says I :rolleyes:, I'll elevate to the level of the top of it's back, bang.....bang...:confused:...hmmm still never even startled the moose! Well somethings seriously wrong, fired one shot probably 6' high! Well that done something!! I got one shell left & it's now decided it;s way to noisy around here & wanders off the marsh. So I head back to the highway & the house. Sure enough I come over a steep little hill & there stands a cow & calf at 75 yds! I'm as close as I can get because they know I'm there so I take careful aim on the calf & bang! off they both go never to be seen again.
I get back to the house grab a couple shells & fire at a piece of plywood, sure enough 2' high at fairly close range like 75 yds. As it turns out the night before someone had run the ramp up to the top of the rear site :mad:
Never did find out who, no-one would own up to it, but I made enough ruckious no-one ever touched another guys gun again!
 
Mule deer hunt a few year back.

1) Spot buck at 150 yds broadside. shoot miss
2) Same buck cornered in a field at 80-90 yrds broadside shoot miss.
3) Buck runs by me at 40 yrds. shoot twice miss and miss

By this time my buddy was laughing so hard I just gave up. I don't know what the hell happened that day the carma gods were crapping all over me. The next day a doe walks out at 200 yrds and I was in a mood so I shot. Bang flop. Filled my tag and said goodbye to the mulie bucks for that year. It sure as hell wasn't the gun.

I got my chance to laugh at my buddy next year. He was hidden in some tall grass and a big white tail 5X5 walks right up to him. At 15 yrds he stands and fires his muzzle loader right into the dirt at the bucks feet. I watched the whole thing.:D Pay back is a b***tch
 
Deer hunting 3 years ago. Buddy shot a deer and we headed in a long swale of dogwood etc to find her. Walked all the way to the end of the swale and couldnt find her. Started walking back and about half way the deer ran 10 feet in front of us (4 guys). I am not sure how many rounds went off but it was well over 12 :D and you guessed it, no deer. It wasnt until the deer ran out the side of the swale and one of the flankers got the job done.
 
October of 04, I missed a 160 class whitetail at 150 yards as he walked away into the timber. Went for the neck shot, I should of put a 160 grain Accubond into his #######.
 
Pheasant hunting a few years ago with 3 other guys. 2 of us with breaking guns, 1 with a pump, the fourth with a semi-auto. A very large rooster flushed about 40 yards away and came back towards the line right over us. Ten shots in all and we didn't knock a feather off him. :eek:
 
last week, embarassing as hell, shooting grouse out of trees in the evening, missed 3 in a row (the second one let me get in a second shot) and that shooting a 20 gauge at 30 yds. But wehn the light gets low, your eyes can fool you I guess.
 
A big buck(12pts +)standing about 40yds away with a Rem 7600 open sights.I only remember looking at the the deer,and not the sights.That old buck fever is quite the thing.
 
4 Years ago hunting this same section of public land for previous 3-4 years chasing this Big buck. Posting in a slash and out comes the monster, he has no clue i am even there. I calmed my buck fever used a nice steady sapling for a rest. I estimated him at 125-150 yds so i placed cross hairs for a perfect heart lung shot and squeezed the trigger. Bang.....Dammit he is still standing there, quickly reload bringing the gun to my shoulder.. what the hell...Where did my scope go? This had to be the worst and funniest thing that happened to me during hunting. I had just bought this rifle before season taken it out to the range sighted all in etc. I guess previous owner didnt tighten the rings to the base very well.

In the end i never did see or get another shot at that Buck, but he deserved to be the one that got away.
 
Many years ago while Elk hunting in late September, I was sitting on a bit of a ridge overlooking a nice meadow area. A bit of fog rolled in, obscuring everything further out than about 40 yards. I hung in, knowing the fog would lift. When it lifted a bit, just about 75 yards above me on the same ridge, stood a very nice muley buck. (Also legal at the time) I swung my rifle around and slipped the safety off, just as I was about to squeeze the trigger, a bank of fog obscured the buck. I held my rifle ready, and sure enough, the fog began to clear just enough to see his outline. I put the crosshairs on his chest, and squeezed one off. He stolted out of there right promptly. I checked carefully....no hair, no blood, no deer. To this day I have no idea what happened, since when I checked my rifle later, it was still dead on. I believe I did get that buck in the same season, on December 15. At least a very similar one, in the same area, so all was not lost. Regards, Eagleye.
 
My first deer. I had a Savage 308 and he was standing on a cutline and after I had finished, the deer was gone and I was standing knee-deep in empty brass. I spent alot of money on that deer that day.

I think I was 10 or 11 yrs old. My dad came driving up and had heard all the shooting and thought the Germans had invaded.
 
I've got one similar to JY's thread starter post.

I was sitting on a blowdown with relatively good visibility compared to the nasty,thick bedding type cover that surrounded me at first light planning to do some rattling using the roots as a makeshift blind. I had barely settled when I hear deer feet coming through the frosty leaves in the distance.Eventually a doe appears weaving her way through the fir and spruce thicket,then another,and a kid. I see there gonna pass through a clear lane at about 35 yards upwind of me and though I have no intention of shooting them,I'm just hoping they don't bust me.A few seconds behind them another doe and kid follow along.Finally I see another deer coming and catch a flash of antlers.Yep,not bad at all i'm thinking,a smallish 10 point but plenty of buck to make me happy and he's gonna pass through the same 3' wide lane as the previous 5 just did@ 35 yards.

A few more steps and he's mine,this one's a gimme.Gun ready and head down he steps into the narrow lane,moving a lil faster than I'd anticipated but I just held the crosshairs on his shoulder,swung with him and sent a 150 from my 7600 30-06.One jump and he's outta sight,and of course all hell breaks loose,tails going everywhere.i walk over to collect my prize amd can't find any sign of a hit?No biggee,I had double-lunged a deer a few years previous where I woulda swore I'd missed had I not been only 80 yards away as there was no hair or blood to be found for the first 50 yards.Turns out I had shot between ribs on both sides and left a .30 cal exit wound.I assumed this was the same scenario,even though I had lightened up from 180's to 150gr CXPs since then.I tracked those deer for a few hundred yards with no sign of blood and actually jumped them twice,the second time catching a glimpse of my buck,apparently no worse for wear?I went back to my blowdown to collect my rattling antlers and re-live the shot just as the sun was coming through the treetops.Looking down the lane to the east with the sun at just the right angle now,I could see a ray of light shining through a 4" birch about ten feet from where the deer stood.NO WAY!!!Sure enough,I hit the only piece of wood between me and him,punched a 30 cal hole clean through it,and I guess deflected the bullet harmlessly away.:mad:
 
A few years back I was out hunting with a friend I shoot with on a regular basis and have great respect for. With all the shooting we had done together, we had never been out hunting together and decided to go looking for a spring bear or two. We headed to an area that I have frequented many times over the years as I knew there were some good bears in the area.

It was early afternoon as we rounded a bend on an old overgrown logging road. Sure enough about 200-225 yards away there is a big blackie having a sh*t on the side of trail. I hit the ground and took aim trying to steady my rifle. It seemed like an eternity before I did get comfortable enough that I thought I could make the shot and while my buddy checked with his bino's to make sure there were no cubs around. By the time we confirmed the shot was clear and there were no cubs around, the bear decided he was going to take off as I could tell he must have sensed something was not right. Just as he started walking I took the shot and missed him clean. By the time I cycled the bolt, he was gone. After that all I remember is my buddy saying "you shot just over him".

Not really a big deal as far as hunting goes, but for some reason that one "miss" stands out in my mind like it was yesterday.
 
Opening day of deer season. I bolted on a HI-Viz loop sight to my smoooth bore gun. As I was watching a buck work his way towards my other hunting buddies I heard a thump to my left. I glance over and a large doe is standing 15 yards away and is watching me. I raise and fire. She runs off ears ringing but otherwise unscathed. I realize I sighted down the barrel along the top of the loop sight and didn't look through it. Sure enough the slug hit a tree about a foot under the doe. Learned from the mistake and a few days later I dropped an 8 point buck.
 
Matane park, 2006. Shot clean over what must have been at least a 50" bull. It's hard to keep your mind on shooting after you've just s**t your pants.
 
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