Weird shot question and story

[Chef]

So for those of you that read my story over the weekend, this dumb ass left my verizon hot spot that I need for work at my girlfriends place in liberty, so today around two we drove back up there to get it, right before we left I decided to pull the truck forward and take a peek into the apple trees, there was a lone doe feeding in there, I decided f$/@ it, backed up, reached into the back seat put on my release grabbed my bow and creator out of the truck, I sneaked around the corner of the house and walked up the embankment to the top of the garage, that's when my eyes met hers standing about 35 to 40 yards away and about 9 feet below me, I froze wearing a bright red dress shirt and dress pants, she went back to feeding and I drew while taking another 5 big steps putting me at what I estimate to be 28 yards she looks up as I squeeze the release I watch the arrow head stright for her and about 5 yards in front of her nose dive and hit the ground right under her, I'm wondering what would make my arrow do that, a really sharp nose dive out of no where, 2nd fun and cool expirence on this property in less than two days, can't wait to go back in two weeks'n

Edited October 21, 2014 by chefhunter86

[Renegade Hunter]

Hit a limb you didn't see? I don't foresee anything else deflecting an arrow that bad. Not even a mechanical broadhead malfunction.

[Chef]

I didn't think it did but that is more than possible it really took a hard dive like it just ran out of gas

[ncountry]

I have seen mechanicals that would miss a 3x3' target if the opened premature. If one blade opened they could severely swerve..

[Chef]

Could be it was a reaper so that really shouldn't happen but also very possible

[Jeremy K]

Did you catch your sleeve ?

[Chef]

It war rolled up did that when I put the release on! Just really weird and bugging me bad! I wanted that deer and would have been cool with the gf watching, first weekend hunting her family's place

[Lawdwaz]

Who was wearing the dress?

 

Oh, you might want to edit the F bomb..........

[Chef]

Edited don't want to offend anyone!

[Lawdwaz]

Edited don't want to offend anyone!

 

So you had the dress on?  I do like red.........

[Chef]

So you had the dress on? I do like red.........

It says dress shirt! But I do look dam sexy in red!

[Lawdwaz]

I knew that.

So maybe I didn't. It's been a long day in the kitchen.

[Chef]

In the kitchen, are you a chef?

[growalot]

The shot I took on a doe last week did the same thing..I thought 30 to 35 yrds...aimed accordingly.....no range finder...well I later hunted that stand with RF...43 yrs shot...arrow ran out of gas...

[Lawdwaz]

In the kitchen, are you a chef?

I butchered a deer yesterday solo and spent hours grinding, wrapping then canning 7 quart of venison. It wouldn't have been too bad but around 3:30 my wife was called into work and I had to get dinner together for the kids & I: breaded pork chops, mashed potatoes (when I mashed them I worked in a wad of crumbly blue cheese and light sour cream!!) and a butternut squash.

Then toss in all the cleaning of knives, cutting boards, grinder parts, pans, dinner dishes then the canning jars, lids, canner etc and my arse was wupped.

No chef but I do enjoy my cooking!

Edited October 21, 2014 by Lawdwaz

[biggamefish]

I would take the arrow and another and recreate the shot and see if it does the same thing at 28-30 yards.  Make sure you are in the wide open where you can't hit a limb or something to deflect the arrow.  That will tell the truth of what is going on.

 

  Some arrows shoot great short distances but you will see there flaws at longer distance if there are any.  Specially with broadheads.  That is why tuning your arrow to your bow is critical. 

[jjb4900]

I used to shoot a specific fixed broadhead that up to 20 yards shot perfect..........25-30 yards it would do crazy things, did you practice at this range with your broadheads?