Happened to me today with a red deer but got two more diamonds today and landed clean shots so at least i made up for it… but in the moment i was pretty sad.. it happens though. Got mine just above the lung in the vertebrae. Instant kill but not a vital organ
It happens and it sucks. I harvested two 48 lions back-to-back and one was a 48.45--0.05 away from diamond. Both were "Legendary" when I spotted them. I couldn't believe it. I thought I was going to get back-to-back diamonds. I've been anywhere from 0.1-0.01 away since then on about a dozen others.
Happens to the best of us my dude, you’ll get it eventually