smo Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Didn't get to hunt this morning, but took my boy out bow hunting this evening. Got a double stand set up and while we were setting up saw a doe. A 4 pt. started chasing does making the time pass. Finally about 7 a doe came out giving my boy a 20 yd broadside shot. Unfortunately he hit her in the shoulder blade. We waited about 10 min. and decided to get down and look at the arrow. As we were letting the bow down a deer snorted and we looked out and 2 nice 8 pts. were headed our way. They snorted and were gone. We got down and checked the arrow and the arrow was broken off just behind where the broadhead screws in. Checked for blood and didn't find any. Hated he lost the deer, but still a good hunt with plenty of action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N8J Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Good day in stand Keep his head up happens to everyone did same thing to a 130 last year!!! :-/ keep getting in a tree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowhunter97 Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Exactly what N8J said keep his head up it happens to the best of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WStreblo Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 Good day in stand I took my gifriends two boys out last year in the youth gun season for their first time ever hunting. Worked on shooting the 410 I bought for them and both were really good. The morning of... The youngest popped three shots off at a big doe missed by about an inch on all three and he was devastated. Did the best I could to tell him it happens to us all and that he will get a chance again... He's a perfectionist so he's still down about it. The oldest boy went with me the same after noon, hit a doe at least 60 yds away and rolled her. I was more excited than he was. After a wait for me to recover from the heart attack I knew i just lived thru we went to claim his first deer... Low and behold blood everywhere where she fell, small blood trail petering out to small drops every 30 yds or so. I searched all day the next day and had a search party the second afternoon and never did find her. Both took it hard but I'm glad it happened the way it did because both now understand that killing a deer isn't a guarantee and they both respect what die hard hunters go thru, the strength of the deer, and the amount of effort they have to put into something to find success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbHunterNY Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 sounds like the deer will probably make it.... make sure he knows what might have happened to cause his shot to be off. if he doesn't get him shooting in the yard before you go out again to build confidence back up. get him back out there and have another great hunt. that's all you can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowhunter97 Posted October 10, 2012 Report Share Posted October 10, 2012 That is all you can do. The first deer i shot at with a bow i missed and that was rough. Putting in all the time and effort into shooting then to have that happen is just devastating but we all live and learn. My favorite saying is one my buddy told me and it is "success in when oppurtunity meets preparation" and that is exactly true i believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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