Undershoot v.

[UNDER-¹ 10 a.] trans. and intr. To shoot short (of) or too low (for). Also fig.

a. 1661.  Fuller, Worthies, Lincoln., II. (1662), 151. I believe they overshoot the Mark, who make it a Miracle, they undershoot it who make it Magick.

1874.  J. W. Long, Amer. Wild-fowl, i. 24. The rib should be … sufficiently elevated at breech to prevent under-shooting.

1883.  Cent. Mag., Aug., 492/1. The sportsman of unsteady nerve … is apt to undershoot.

1885.  Hornaday, 2 Yrs. in Jungle, xviii. 199. I … fired at his temple…. Fool that I was, I undershot the brain because the elephant was below me.