Opening weekend miss

[DavisHollow]

2010 Oct 03 opening weekend miss


Feeder is 37 yards, I guestimate the buck was 31 yards. I used 25 yard pin but shot went high, I noticed later it went through the "shoot through" mesh, you can see the shot fishtailing so I don't know if that was a factor. That was not intentional, I had an edge of the mesh pealed down, but the shot went through the mesh twice since it caught the folded down corner.

Lucky day for that ugly 5-pt. Of course most deer are safe with a bow in my hands.

[mchildress]

I rather have a clean miss than a bad hit. Great video

[Caldwell]

Happens to the best of us. Good luck next time

[Br'er_Henry]

Great vid.. what's your camera and editing software?
Thanks for sharing!

[CountryJunky]

Nice video! As said, rather have the clean miss than bad hit

[jcar]

nice video, keep shooting

[SOLID EAGLE]

Great video. That buck felt the wind from that arrow.

[Oneway]

At least you are getting to hunt!

[DavisHollow]

True, I had a great time regardless.

To answer tech questions. Camera is a Sony HDR-SR1, I think their first HD (1440i anyway) HDD camera. Probably 4 years old but still shoots well. I used Sony Vegas (Movie Studio v9 I think) to put the clips together, didn't do any special processing except a little slow-mo and pan/zoom, nothing fancy at all. Tripod is a sturdy Bogen 3221G. Only gripe is that Vegas only allows you to slow down 4x, so I had to slow clip down 4X, save it, import it back in and slow it down again, so slowest shot is 1/16th normal speed.

Helpful in that you can see the shot porpoising, you can see the tail porpoise down as it approached the buck and the arrow floats. I'm convinced the "shoot though" mesh messed it up. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. I should videotape some shots at a target to see if this is happening a lot, could be I need to adjust the string nocking point.

Or move the blind closer to the feeder.

Or wait until rifle season.

[cz52man]

This is double-edged. It's definitely a downer to not get your deer but it sure is nice to see the reality of hunting...and I agree with you, he was a bit on the "ugly" side.

[Porterhouse]

I rather have a clean miss than a bad hit. Great video

Yep. I'd blame the mesh too

[jcso139]

you should try putting a chain-on stand in the tree behind you feeder. looks like you would be concealed and closer to your feeder. and you would not have the mesh prob.

[Big Spec]

nice video, hopefully you get another shot at him

[Hunting Consult]

Sorry about the miss. But great video

[stx bowhunter]

Great video!!!! You barely missed him. Looked like you would had spine him if he wouldn't of jump the string.