What's the camp penalty for a missed shot ?

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So we put out a guest on our very best watch.
Tower stand, overlooking a half acre food plot, right at the waters edge of a 10 acre pond.

At 8:15 on a string, The big bull, cow and calf, filter out of a hinge cut area; left side, 75 yards away from the stand. Calf stays tight to mom, but presents a shot just before they get in behind the big birch.
BANG !!!
Missed >>>

The bull, cow and calf slowly walk away into the bush.
We scoured the area, and up into the woods for 20 minutes just to make sure it was a clean miss and didn't find a drop of blood.

So what's the penalty, apart from some good ribbing, for missing that shot in your camp ??
I assume he is now sentenced to last choice when stands come up......

Camp penalties are never the same for everyone and because of this I would never give one out. The guys who ran the camp never wore the hat or admitted that they missed but rather would blame everyone else or everything else.

Camp penalties caused people to not shoot when they were not 100% sure of the shot and claim they never saw a deer, less BS that way.

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Originally Posted by Fox

Camp penalties are never the same for everyone and because of this I would never give one out. The guys who ran the camp never wore the hat or admitted that they missed but rather would blame everyone else or everything else.

Camp penalties caused people to not shoot when they were not 100% sure of the shot and claim they never saw a deer, less BS that way.

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Was really half joking; but didn't know if there was a ritual; like the opposite a hole-in-one.
This is our first year adding moose; usually just deer hunters.

Skeet shooting; they toss your hat in the air and shoot it the first time you break 25.
Didn't know if missing had any fun ritual

We don't really have a penalty...but the place will be named after you if it doesn't already have a name.
For the first 10 years or so, it will be called "the stand where Steve missed the buck".
If you're lucky, at some point it will be shortened to "Steve's stand", and maybe 20 years later, people *might* forget that you missed the buck there.

LOL Werner-
I think our poor beggar was still shaking 10 minutes after he fired the gun.
Nobody expects that kind of action, on opening day.
Major Buck Fever

Mike's Stand it is..........

This is why I like bow hunting.

If I miss I can say I didn't see a thing... LOL

All in good fun but Mike should be buying the first round tonight.

I know around our camp table the stories aren't about the miss...but the best 'excuses' used to defend the miss...some time honoured ones still get a good for a laugh at the expense of a few red cheeks....:)

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Originally Posted by Horridfiber101

Was really half joking; but didn't know if there was a ritual; like the opposite a hole-in-one.
This is our first year adding moose; usually just deer hunters.

Skeet shooting; they toss your hat in the air and shoot it the first time you break 25.
Didn't know if missing had any fun ritual

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If everyone was cool it would be great, we actually had a hat with antlers.

If we were seeing deer and getting deer then nobody had a problem wearing the hat for the night of a miss but if it was Thursday and we had no deer on the pole a miss meant you were ripped apart for 3 days.

I hunt now with a bunch of guys who laugh everything off, we used to say the guy who missed the solo goose paid for breakfast but since we generally all miss one it cannot be enforced.

Weve got a goofy hat to wear for the evening.

Its the story of the miss for years afterwords thats the funner things

Lol