After a miss...

[Deertick]

Yep, 4 shots from a muzzleloader as the deer actually walked closer to me, confused, I think, by the echos in the trees. I have no idea how that happened ...

 

[cnelk]

I have witnessed that too. ML \'booms\' dont seem to bother elk/deer.
I believe they think its thunder

 

[Bob Frapples]

That and lead chunk tearing trees/ground up on opposite side of boom. With 4 shots least you were hidden out of sight in smoke for a while

 

[Deertick]

I hate to tell the whole truth about that \"hunt\" ... but I wasn\'t far away ... and the deer had company ... and I was never busted.

At one point the deer was standing 5 yards from my stand as I reloaded! (And cussed!)

I think my buddy must\'ve replaced my powder with firecrackers or something.

 

[rudyc]

Good idea about calling to see if you can stop the elk of have it return. Last year, after my mmmmmisssss, I was kinda unhappy with myself the bull kind of just wandered off, not knowing what was going on.
With my \"whitetail hunter\" mentality, I never even thought about giving a call, even though I had read about it several times.

Oh yeah, with this mmmmissss, I spent some time digging the arrow out of a tree, did not have to worry about if I hit him or not.

 

[Billy Goat]

I found my first arrow miss 3 years after the actual miss!

shot fired: 2008

arrow found: 2011

no lie. crazy.