I work with, shoot with, and compete with the best shooters alive. Guess what? They all miss at times. They all miss really easy shots as well. It's the frequency of misses (and wounding in hunting) that tells something. It's a percentage game. If someone is consistently missing or is wounding animals frequently then we have a problem. If someone buys their gun halfway sights it in, and then starts slinging lead (they would be called average hunters) we have a problem. If some practices hard, shoots from odd positions, takes shots they are confident that they have a high probability to make, and misses an animal with the first and kills with the second, then we have high fives and hand grenades.
When someone makes such a big deal about one missed shot on an animal, that tells me that they haven't killed all that much. It's kind of like the average decent hunter that kills one or two big game animals a year for twenty years, only wounding and losing one or two in that time, getting on a soapbox because someone makes two bad shots a year..... Ignoring that the other guy kills more in a year than the first has in his entire lifetime.
Don't worry about it wildwyo. Practice hard and go hunt.
