Need Help from the Deer Gods!!!!

I’m about to scream…just a little though!!

I need a little prayer/help from the deer gods on this one guys. My son still has his youth tag. He chose not to fill it during the youth season because all he had reasonable shots on were fawns and he did not feel comfortable with taking one. He makes the call on what to shoot or not shoot, not me.  So now we go into the regular season and a guy in 2B offered up some primo land to him to hunt. We accepted and the first night out, at any given time after about 4o’clock, we were always watching 19+ deer. Well two does come into us at about 50 yds but we were elevated also about 20 feet+ in a really nice house he put us in. He pulled the trigger and missed, pulled again and missed, pulled again and missed. OUCHY!!!! I figured it was the downward shooting that got him because we did not practice that during the summer fun shooting 101. I videotaped the whole thing though.  We called it a night and went back to watch the video and discovered he was “pulling” the trigger, you seen the barrel raise before the gun went off. So with a snap cap, we practiced “squezzing” the trigger instead of “pulling”. Took him back out to shot targets, which I hate doing during the season but needed him to get some extra trigger time. He is a crazy good shooter…..at paper! So we go out again and do a ground hunt where there are about 8 does transitioning from CRP to a potato field. We watched the first two does cross, fawns, and he held out for a bigger one. Well out of the blue, right in front of us is a VERY nice buck. 4X4 way outside his ears and VERY tall, didn’t have the basket shape. He decides he will take it, but we have been busted by him yet he continues to just stand there, proud, broadside, 40 yds from us. Son gets a good bead, shots, misses AGAIN!!!! At this point I am ready to pull my hair out but SOMEHOW remained VERY calm.  At this point the life has been beat out of the kid so I have spent the better part of this week building him back up and we are heading back out to hunt Friday-Sunday.

Do me a favor and ask the deer gods, gun gods, or whomever to shed a little light on him…. Or possibly on me to stay sain!!!!!!