I haven't missed in a while (with a bow)anyway. I shot at a doe 5 times two years ago with my rifle and found out the scope had been knocked off somehow, but that's another story. I missed pretty regularly in my early bowhunting career. I used to shoot fixed pin sights, and I could stand at a set distance and stack a half dozen in a spot as big as a quarter. Then I would get in a deer stand and miss a 100 lb deer. I found out I had poor depth perception and cannot accurately judge distance up a tree. I bought a pendulum and haven't missed many since. I also attribute that to being very picky about what shot I take.
The first time I ever climbed up a tree while bow hunting, I had shot all my arrows by 7:30. I had to climb down and retrieve them. By 8:30 I had shot two more times and hadn't even come close to hitting one. I can't begin to tell you how many I missed that season.
