No deer goes to waste.
Coyotes gotta eat too. And nothing is ever dead solid perfect.
The last deer I missed was a doe I was trying to shoot between the eyes from 125 yards. I had my Ruger #1 with a Leupold cranked up to 9 power. I was in a box blind, sitting, using the window ledge as a rest. Had a good zero. but I was having a hard time getting a knee high enough to rest an elbow on. I dry fired a few times and then loaded the rifle. Every time I was 1/4 lb of trigger pressure off breaking the shot she would move her head, swap ends, eat on different tuft of grass, et. I was going through a shot program so every time she moved I had to start over with breathing, focus, trigger pressure. Finally she lifted her head and was looking right at me and I broke the shot. I swear she must have seen the bullet trace from the wrong end. When I came out of recoil she was GONE. No deer on the ground, no deer in the sky, no deer left or right, no doe anywhere. I sat tight.
5 minutes later she came back out and I quit screwing around and shot her in the flat side of the head.