Tyler and I settled into our blind yesterday afternoon for a quick hunt. With the wind in our favor, we felt good about the evening's hunt and it wasn't long before a small doe stepped into the field. This is the same field that we have been seeing some decent bucks in so we decided to just sit tight and wait. Our patients payed off, well kinda. A the doe grazed in the beans 25 yards from us, the same buck that busted me last week stepped into the field and was walking straight at us. I told Tyler to get ready so he quietly stood up so that he could shoot with his compound. As the buck approached, I looked up at Tyler and saw a terrible sight. He was shaking uncontrollably, soaked with sweat and I could see his pulse pounding in his neck. This was not good ya'll. I told him to sit back down so that I could get close enough to whisper in his ear without spooking the buck. I whispered some words of confidence to him and did my best to get him to focus on me and not the buck. He finally calmed down a bit and said that he thought that he was ready and got back on his feet. He took a deep breath, let it out and began to draw his bow. Again, three years in a row, he could not calm himself enough to pull the bow back
. I felt completely helpless but then I had a thought. He was perfectly calm watching that doe just outside the blind so I whispered for him to forget the buck and shoot the doe. He calmed right down, came to full draw but when he did, the buck saw him and ran off about 10 yards taking the doe with him. She had stopped and turned broadside. I ranged her with the rangefinder and the reading came back at 39 yards. He had not practiced nor did he have a sight pin for that distance. In desperation, I did something that I will regret. I told him to hold right at her spine and let it fly. He took a deep breath again but this time he let his bow down and sat in his chair. Tears were streaming down his face and I told him that I was very proud of him for not taking the shot and admitted my poor judgement in telling him to take a risky shot. Folks' I am at a loss. This is the third time that this has happened. I really do feel that once he gets one under his belt he'll be ok but we just can't seem to get a doe to come in by herself. This only happens with his bow and bucks. The boy normally tags out on deer (5) and turkey (2) every year but seems to loose all of his strength when trying to shoot a buck with his bow. Before going to bed last night he came to me and asked me if we could hold off bowhunting anymore because he thinks that he just doesn't have what it takes to succeed. This is so out of character for him. In fact, when I got up this morning he was outside at the boat, cleaning up and charging the batteries. He saw me at the door and said that the weather was going to be good Saturday and we should go catch some flounder and trout. Any ideas or suggestions??????? I do not want to pressure him if he doesn't want to go but than again I don't want him to think that it's ok to just give up on something that he is so passionate about. He has spent a many a hour shooting his bow from his climber over the summer. He has no problem putting 6 arrows in a fist sized group at 25 yards. Do ya'll think that I should get him an adjustable sight (sightmaster) or a sight with multiple pins so that he can extend
his comfortable shooting range? Heck, I don't know what to do
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Relax, enjoy and he will too. He's got plenty of time to bowhunt in the years to come.
. Just a bump in the road folks and we will get through it like we alwasy do. With God's help, we will get through this 
. Thank you so much for your help guys and you too gal 