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Second sit. 6 does, 3 bucks. None worth shooting
 
tonybart55 said:
Well I was waiting for the end of the weekend to see if I could find this deer.

I understand the feeling man, just in a different way.

At ~8am Saturday morning, I shot what would've been the biggest buck of my hunting career. He wasn't massive, but a good mature buck. Maybe 15-16 ft up, about 10 yards away, just the slightest quartering away, I hit him high, up and down, but good, left to right. He freaked out, ran into my stand and broke the arrow off, ran out of the treeline and around the corner. I would've sworn I caught atleast one lung especially at the angle I was to him.

After about 45mins to an hour, I got down and looked at my arrow, the front 12" of it was missing, I'm assuming still in the buck. My father in law and I looked for blood, found the first sight of it about 100 yards away. We tracked this blood for about 450 yards total before it just stopped, not a drop more. Spent a total of maybe 6 hours looking for this guy. None of the blood was thick on the ground, it was mainly up high on the tops of beans and grass. Everything else was mainly just a drop her or drop there. I think I saw only 1 or 2 spots were there was a decent splotch of blood, maybe 3-4 inches in diameter on the ground, I'm guessing where he slowed down.

Today I checked for buzzards twice, once before church and then around 3pm. Nothing.

My father in law and my best buddy thinks that it must've missed vitals, that it was an nonlethal hit and that he'll live.

Feel sick to my stomach. I know it's bound to happen to hunters if they hunt long enough, but dang I wish it wasn't me. Wounding a deer is gut wrenching. It has felt like a long weekend.

I'm just praying that he got the arrow out somehow and that I see him on camera soon. Just want some closure.


The picture is one of him from earlier this season
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Below the spine and above the lungs is no man's land. Lost about 195" mule deer like that one time.
 
Hduke86 said:
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I just want to know why a man has so much sanitizer stocked away? @rem270 are you performing surgeries in there?
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It puts the lotion on the skin or it gets the hose again 🤣

My wife brought that up here because I don't have water lol.
@cbhunter will be proud of you for noticing stuff lol
 
Brokenbow said:
Below the spine and above the lungs is no man's land. Lost about 195" mule deer like that one time.
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That sucks man, I let buck fever get the best of me and I didn't relax and shoot like I normally doz rushed the shot because I didn't want him getting away. Ended up getting away anyways. The irony lol
 
tonybart55 said:
That sucks man, I let buck fever get the best of me and I didn't relax and shoot like I normally doz rushed the shot because I didn't want him getting away. Ended up getting away anyways. The irony lol
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I've been bow hunting for 40 years and still get excited when I have one come in. That's what's so much fun about it
 
Let one fly an hour ago near McMinnville. Had 3 bucks walk down the hill and the biggest gave me a broadside slightly quartering away shot at 10 yards. Made a pass through shot and fairly certain I heard him crash. Waiting on a buddy to get here for a hopefully easy track and recovery.
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