ccwhitey Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Bad luck that is. My season has not been one to brag about. I could literally count the number of deer I have seen on my hands and toes up to Il shotgun season. During both seasons I saw a total of 8 deer. I wasn't having any luck at home so I decided to make my way 2.5 hrs south to effingham county where I have always seen atleast 10 deer each sitting. I hunted all this pass weekend and all I saw was 5 deer sat morning. I went home empty hearted and disapointed at my dismal weekend. Parkergirl convinced me to try to hunt behind my house. I haven't hunted there in a while so I thought that I would give it a try. I actually couldn't believe it when I saw several does come out of the timber and started to walk my way. I had only one window and the closest distance was 40 yrds. I was going to wait for them to get a little closer but they started to feed away for me so I was forced to take a 45 yrd shot sending my 2-blade rage broad heads sailing through the air. I shot her right in the shoulder slightly quartering away going though both shoulders. Tracked the deer last night for 40 yrds not finding much blood and decided to wait till the morning. Went back out this morning and could not find any blood past where I stopped:mad: I really don't know why the rage didn't do more damage. I found part of my arrow with good blood on it leaving 4 inches of the arrow in the deer. I didn't search all of my timber because a big ten was seen last night walking into my timber and I didn't want to push him out. Heading back out tonight to see if I can hopefully change my luck around. Thanks for listening to my ranting and wish me luck. Jared Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirkV Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 If you shot that doe through bith shoulders with a 2 bladew rage she will NOT go too far. I had one run 200 yards on a dead run in open ground and that was out of the ordinary. Usually they only go 40 yards tops with a double lung shot. Hope you find her and you should. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrow32 Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 I think she is piled up in there somewhere and you should check around some. Best of luck on bagging one before season is out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccwhitey Posted January 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 I ended up searching over 150ydrs with no blood just body searching, but found nothing. Don't know what happened to her, guess I will have to try again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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