arrow32 Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 If you read my post about hunting above the bow shop well Wensday night me and my buddy headed out we got in the stand and sat about 20 minutes and there were deer everywhere!! I had them in front of me and everything then these 2 doe start walking down off the hill towards us and this one doe was a monster she was about 4 years old we thought. Anyway She came right under neath the pine we was in and stopped. It was a pretty angled shot because we were up hill a little as well. I made the shot and thwack she went down and it looked like a good shot little high but a good shot. And then she fell over in the creek and then went up around the side of the hill. That night we tracked her till 9:00 and never found here. Yesterday they looked all morning becuase I couldn't get out of school tracked her to some huge brush. Then last night I crawled through all this brush with my buddy looking for her its just so thick you can't get through it. We all know she is dead we just can't find her. Made me sick 1. Because I was hunting up above the shop and really hated to lose one with him letting me hunt there. 2. Just because I hate to lose deer. Put in over 10 hours of looking and I have enough scratchs on my face and hands to show worked for that thing. Good news tho he asked when I was coming back to hunt. Last night them deer were back under my stand. I'm going to go shoot my BH's today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 I'm going to go shoot my BH's today. What do you mean by that Cody, were you shooting mechanicals? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kid Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 if you hunt long enough and hard enough, no matter how you prep for your shot, somethings just happen like this, its happends to me and i'm like you i get upset and get that sickfeeling in my stomach, keep practicing, and good luck to you on your next hunt!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonLester Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 Were you finding much blood? I hate loosing them too. But unfortunatly it sometimes happens. You'll learn to take less low margin shots and learn to track better the more you hunt. It just happens over time. Sorry you can't find her. I've spent days looking only to find out the deer wasn't dead. I hit one in the shoulder years ago and ended up seeing him trailing does a month later. Deer are tuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrow32 Posted December 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 What do you mean by that Cody, were you shooting mechanicals? No William I was shooting a Thunder Head XP 100 gr. I just needed my confidence still there that it was just me not the bow. Looks good. We found good lung blood and everything but the 5 of us ain't got a clue on what happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 maybe she is hidden the that "thick" stuff you guys was searching and you just didn't see her..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 I just needed my confidence still there that it was just me not the bow. Looks good. OK, makes sense. Think Todd is probably right, you probably overlooked the deer in the thick stuff Cody. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrow32 Posted December 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 I think we did as well. But we looked high and low and kept going back and forth over the places we had already looked after we looked the whole area. Its just so thick you could be right beside her and not know it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earnhardts12000 Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 i hate that but it happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonLester Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 if its legal take a tracking dog out to see if it can find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 That's too bad...it happens...we've all lost one at some point. Andy shot a doe this year during archery, he had a good angled shot because it was almost under his stand, he said the arrow went in by it's shoulders but didn't come out. We found a few pieces of the arrow but not the broadhead end and we never found the deer... he was sure she had to be dead and while there was blood, not a great amount of it. It's hard when you can't figure out what went wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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