anyone admit to making a terrible shot

Double barrel shorty at the range. Shooting slugs for coffee at 20 feet at a 2'X2' target. Fired both shots separately. Missed the target, twice!
I hate shotguns

My first deer I hit high in the spine. I had a 10 year old's buck fever and a flinch to thank for that one.

I make 'bad' hits on dove every year, but those aren't as easy to avoid.

I had a brother-in-law that grew up in Jackson Hole Wy back in the 30's and 40's time frame. He taught me so much that I could write a book if I could remember everything I learned from him. Shooting rifles were never an issue again because of the drilling and training from brother-in-law. However first year I decided to try BOW hunting is a whole different story. Day break in tree stand on feed plot, nice doe walks to the edge about 30 yrs away. Let's back up one day. Day before hunt my friend suggested that we try a new attachment for the bow that pays out a nylon string so it would be easy to track. Now back to the day of shot. Doe was standing facing me with as picture perfect shot you could ask for. Sighted in released arrow and watched what seemed to be slow motion, the arrow heading perfectly to the chest area. Less than 10 ft from the Doe for some reason the String tracing gizmo litterly stopped the arrow in flight, it hit ground about 3ft in front of deer, she jumped up and turned broad side. Words that I used can not be used here, knife came out cutting string, restrung second arrow. Doe still standing broadside to me, let loose the second shot, again tracking perfectly and unseen by me a branch about the size of a finger deflected the arrow right over her back. Ok by now the heart rate was up and I expected that anyone within a mile could hear it. Strung the third (yes 3rd) arrow and just as I let loose she flagged me and that was the last I saw of that deer. Bad shots yes but learned a few things for sure, and had a decent story to share at campfire.

I missed a buck, with a crossbow, at 6 yards.

Took the skin off of the top of a doe's back with an arrow at 20 yards. Rush shot, bad judgement from the tree stand (elevation and yardage) and she walked.

Not a bad shot but didn't recover her.....put an arrow in the sweet spot on a doe at 35 yards and watched her run off. Waited for over an hour and went to look for her. Lost the blood trail in the swamp and walked around the water the rest of the afternoon. Never did find her. Month later a guy shot a spike out of the same tree stand and while recovering him, he found what was left of her.

Lloyd, that was my first and last experience with the "STRING TRACKER". After that episode I made sure my broad head would create a wound channel that would allow best loss of blood and quicker downing of deer. Push come to shove I gave thought of using one of my Dachshunds as a tracker. Had one that was great at tracking and no mater how excited she got always responded to my call and she would break off and return. Now I own two cross bows and if I still hunted all I need to do is open the back door and basically choose which one I want to take.

Yep. I took my first shot at a buck this season. 60 yards, off hand, deer at a run, me shaking like a leaf. I shot well over his back and he lived another day.

I was out duck/goose hunting yesterday, made a bad shot but that's besides the point.

In the same area, back in '95 opening morning of Deer Season. The night before I had pin-pointed a really nice buck and was back at first light. 200-225 yards with a 7mm Rem mag.

I rushed the shot as it was a public area and didn't want someone to come spooking him off. Took the shot, later found on tiny drop of blood and a tuff of hair. Figure I just grazed his belly.

Still makes me sick thinking about it.

Anytime I cannot recover a hog that I have shot, it is a terrible shot. Even if the shot looks good on video but the hog is not recovered, it is a terrible shot.

I have 3 outright misses since 2008. Two of those were offhand shots. I have spent time working on offhand shots so that such does not happen again.

Here is one of my favorite videos. This guy, the hunter, just doesn't get it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiq8uVMTaBY&noredirect=1

I've heard a lot of bad shots. The ranch next to our lease was leased by the North America Hunt Club. Talk about bad shots! It was fairly regular: Bang, swish. Bang, swish. Sometimes three or four misses. Very rarely, Bang, whop.

I took a terrible shot at the first deer I ever shot at years ago. I was hunting
behind a ground blind and watching a patch of mushrooms and a ten point
buck popped out of the woods nearby and started feeding on them. After
putting my jaw back in place after it dropped, I raised the Browning Light
12 Gauge that I was using at the time and fired! The buck looked at me
like I was crazy and disappeared. The only damage my slug did was to the
top of my ground blind. Since then, I have learned that rifles are better
tools for deer hunting and to relax before taking a shot when I get antler
fever.

Well...

Last deer season I shot a doe a little further back than I intended to... She approached me from my left and presented me with an almost perfect broadside, slightly quartering to me. Problem was, she was moving from left to right across my shooting lane at a leisurely pace. I whistled and managed to make her stop, but I let her stand too long. Just as I was pulling the trigger, she turned her head and started moving again, so my shot landed about 6 inches back in her gut. She didn't stagger or lurch at first, so I thought I had missed- I rechambered and the second round went through the bottom of her heart and messed up her lungs pretty well. She stumbled a few yards and dropped.

I was using my Mosin with 203 grain soft points, and the two bullets did a fair number on her. My first shot, unfortunately, made one heck of a mess, and field dressing her was more of a chore than usual. The exit wound was large enough that some organs had slipped out- I almost didn't have to cut her open... I console myself with the fact that the second shot ended things fairly quickly, and that she probably didn't suffer due to the extreme shock.

The next day I made up for it with a one-shot on a nice 8-pointer that destroyed both lungs, with that deer expiring in virtually the same spot as the doe. No tracking required.

The other two deer I have shot were both clean, one-shot kills. I have missed one or two others, but my 'ratio' is still good seeing as I haven't been hunting terribly long.