What's the camp penalty for a missed shot ?

Honestly a "penalty" or ridicule for missing a shot is perhaps the stupidest thing I have ever heard of.

Everyone will or has missed. Misses can happen for a million of different reasons. Some of which the shooter can't even control. Most people, when they miss already feel regretful or will be angry with themselves for missing. Why exaggerate those negative feelings and emotions? Why put more stress on the shooter with the thought of what will happen if they miss? As a shooter you already have enough to think about including emotions going through your mind too! Why add more?

Misses should be taken for what it is; a learning experience! Misses are a time for learning and growing as a hunter/marksman. Try and go through your mind and think about what you could have done different? Ask some more experienced guys what they would do in that situation? Maybe even go and fire a test shot to see if your scope was bumped off. Other guys at camp should be giving advice and being positive.

They could also pour the shooter a stiff drink too :)

I'd argue that the joking and jesting is a way to get rid of those negative feelings. Seeing shirttails on that wall from hunters through the years is a good way of reminding the hunter who missed that it happens to everybody at one point. As long as it's good natured ribbing and not meant cruelly, but that's up to the hunt camp to enforce too. Nothing says that there won't be advice and extra range time just because of some good natured fun. I agree on the drink though!!


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Based on what I've seen and what I've read, the outcome is determined by the person involved. Most guys will shrug it off and accept the consequences, whereas a few will see it as a challenge to never be in that position again. We've never shamed the guys that have missed because the next miss may be yours.

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Originally Posted by allaroundhunter

Honestly a "penalty" or ridicule for missing a shot is perhaps the stupidest thing I have ever heard of.

Everyone will or has missed. Misses can happen for a million of different reasons. Some of which the shooter can't even control. Most people, when they miss already feel regretful or will be angry with themselves for missing. Why exaggerate those negative feelings and emotions? Why put more stress on the shooter with the thought of what will happen if they miss? As a shooter you already have enough to think about including emotions going through your mind too! Why add more?

Misses should be taken for what it is; a learning experience! Misses are a time for learning and growing as a hunter/marksman. Try and go through your mind and think about what you could have done different? Ask some more experienced guys what they would do in that situation? Maybe even go and fire a test shot to see if your scope was bumped off. Other guys at camp should be giving advice and being positive.

They could also pour the shooter a stiff drink too :)

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Are you serious? As long as it is a clean miss, who cares? Have some fun with it!!!

Clearly some of these guys who don't get the camaraderie and all around good fun that happens in a week at deer camp don't get the shirt tail thing. A tail lost is not some personal attack its a way of laughing off what most hunters eventually experience. Hunt deer every year in a traditional big woods camp and you will eventually miss a deer no matter how good you think you are. Then again not everybody is a good fit for an organized deer camp.

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Originally Posted by terrym

Clearly some of these guys who don't get the camaraderie and all around good fun that happens in a week at deer camp don't get the shirt tail thing. A tail lost is not some personal attack its a way of laughing off what most hunters eventually experience. Hunt deer every year in a traditional big woods camp and you will eventually miss a deer no matter how good you think you are. Then again not everybody is a good fit for an organized deer camp.

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It appears some people are wound pretty tight. Maybe,they're better suited to still hunting,quietly.....alone.

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Originally Posted by terrym

Clearly some of these guys who don't get the camaraderie and all around good fun that happens in a week at deer camp don't get the shirt tail thing. A tail lost is not some personal attack its a way of laughing off what most hunters eventually experience. Hunt deer every year in a traditional big woods camp and you will eventually miss a deer no matter how good you think you are. Then again not everybody is a good fit for an organized deer camp.

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So true, that is why it is important to have a compatible group in camp.

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Originally Posted by terrym

Clearly some of these guys who don't get the camaraderie and all around good fun that happens in a week at deer camp don't get the shirt tail thing. A tail lost is not some personal attack its a way of laughing off what most hunters eventually experience. Hunt deer every year in a traditional big woods camp and you will eventually miss a deer no matter how good you think you are. Then again not everybody is a good fit for an organized deer camp.

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Sometimes these things are meant as a personal attack. I am glad you hunt in a camp where people laugh things off but that is not always the case. I hunted with a gang where 2 guys ruined it for me and I left the family camp along with my dad and uncle. Now I hunt with my dad and uncle along with dads friends and we love it, we have a great time and if someone missed we make sure to take them out to the range to see how bad they shoot. We rip people more for their Euchre playing ability more than their inability to shoot a running deer at 100 yards through thick bush.

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Originally Posted by maximum chaos

thats the response the OP was asking for lol. way to go D7, sometimes people just dont get it

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Another tail on the wall monday morning donated by the camp captain. He doesn't miss often and couldn't blame the gun because he was at the range on sunday. Sometimes these things happen and to be honest we weren't upset as it was quite warm and we would have had to make a trip to town. We had a discussion about our wall of shame on sunday and we all agreed that we enjoy those stories more than the 2 ontario records that have come from our camp in the last few years.

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A hunting buddy of mine once said that if you don't get overly excited just before you pull the trigger, whats the point of going hunting. Wisdom from an 80 yr old.