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    • Sam86
        September 28, 2011 at 2:43 am
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        #5975

        got into my blind late like 6:30 late but i thought i would be better then not going at all. in the blind(and i mean behind a tree blind lol) for maybe 20 minute and here comes a doe taking a stroll done my trail… so i wait into she gets into my shooting window, I stop her, pull back and let her have it. 21 yard shot and she ran off with the arrow a little over half way in her ( kind of in the shoulder) i see her run off into a field and cut back to the wood line stumbling as she goes in 100 yards away, and this is when the BS starts… i go to the last place i seen(waited 20 minutes) her and see good blood, follow the trail for 20 or so yards and find my blood soaked arrow, follow that blood trail now for over 100 yards (over 200 total so far) and its bleeding good but it’s bright red, so i know its not a great shot, but… then it stops, no more blood at all, nothing, zip!!! it stopped in a small thicket, i search it for ever, made 3 large circles around it since it stopped in the thicket and she was not there, i mean like on my hands and knees search with a flash light 3 times around, and nothing. i looked high and low for hours and nothing, the blood trail just stopped and no deer!!!:(

      • David Petersen
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          September 28, 2011 at 2:53 am
          Post count: 2749
          #46469

          Sam– go back in the morning at first light and look some more. With luck you’ll find her before the coyotes do. I had a similar experience once and it took four major trips: two alone, one with my wife and dog, and a fourth with an expert tracker friend. I found the buck a quarter-mile past the last speck of blood, down in a bottom where they tend to head when hurt badly but the coyotes had gotten there first. Still, it’s the only way to ease your conscience a bit. Good luck.

        • Sam86
            September 28, 2011 at 3:02 am
            Post count: 51
            #46478

            i wish i could and i couldnt agree more Dave but i have to work tomorrow at 7am and there is no way i can take off or come in late i have to give a meeting at 7:30 am… i will go back out straight after work though, the thing i’m worried about besides the coyotes is the heat, it is still getting into the 80’s in the mid day here in Kansas…. this sucks! i mean i’m going to find her no matter what but i got a bad feeling she aint gonna be any good….

          • bruc
            Member
              September 28, 2011 at 12:15 pm
              Post count: 476
              #46893

              Hey Sam have another look after work to see if you can find her. Other than that, you have done the very best that you can do. It’s just the way it works sometime.
              Bruce

            • trapperDave
                September 28, 2011 at 2:17 pm
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                #47011

                You likely bumped her looking so soon. Once jumped…they can go aloooooong ways.

                In the futue, if you dont SEE it go down wait a couple hours. More if you know its a bad or marginal hit. A dead deer isnt going anywhere, and an injured deer wont go far if it doesnt feel threatened or pursued.

                Good luck with your search. It happens to all of us.

              • Nate Bailey
                  September 28, 2011 at 2:25 pm
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                  #47021

                  sorry to hear

                • Sam86
                    September 28, 2011 at 9:46 pm
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                    #47380

                    well i looked for just over 3 hours, it was driving me nuts at work so i took off at 12:30 and went looking… i dont understand where she went off to… however i did find a huge shed, 6 points (only found one antler) and i cant touch my finger tip to my thumb at the base!!!

                  • strait-aero
                      September 28, 2011 at 9:59 pm
                      Post count: 350
                      #47386

                      Sam that’s just the way it happens sometimes, but like Dave said, you’ve got to ease your conscience by giving it your best effort at trying to recover it. I’m sure you’ll have more opportunities. Just stay at it. Wayne

                    • anointedarcher
                        September 29, 2011 at 11:18 am
                        Post count: 29
                        #48023

                        That is a bummer Sam and it happens to the best of us, Good luck with the rest of the season.

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