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Ok guys If you shoot 3D also with your hunting bow and can put it in the kill zone at 60yrds. would you attempt a 55 or 60 yrd. shot on a deer in the field, open land 8 pt. buck lite cross wind....
See I jumped a injured 8 pt. saturday morning someone else had shot and gave up on. was going to finnish him off but he grunted and lunged away, was at full draw I "macked" til he stopped broadside at about 60 yrds. I held my shot but my hunting buddy has been wearing me out on How I could have and should have taken the shot, to put him out of his suffering from a hip shot. I was willing to use up one of my 3 buck tags for it...and I only questioned my self for a second on if I could hit him.
 
No one can make that decision but you. You know your capablities. A twice wounded buck could be worse off than a once wounded one.
Many a deer has recovered from a wound /poor shot.
I think your "Buddy" is wrong questioning "Your" decision.A pretty good chance the deer is still in the area. You are likely to get a better shot on another day.
Don't feel guilty about it. Just try to learn from the experence.Consider it part of your devolpment as a hunter.Learn from it. If we are lucky we can learn something from almost every trip to the woods.
 
bsl said:
If it was already wounded I would have slung an arrow.i agree with your buddy.Try to put it down since it was injured.
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Yep , no question on ethics there . I would make every attempt to put a deer down if it was already wounded . I have taken a few longer shots to finish deer off that I probably wouldn't have taken on the initial shot , but it was the right thing to do in each situation .
 
I think it is a matter of what you felt was comfortable during those few seconds. If you didn't take the shot, clearly you weren't comfortable. Accept this and you won't beat yourself up over it. I still think about an 8 pt buck that popped out 175 yards away opening day gun last year. I still wonder why I didn't take that shot, but during those few seconds I wasn't confident I could lay the animal down. The buck was injured, but you could have made his suffereing even worse by adding another non-lethal wound. He'll get taken out or die soon.
 
I think you made the right decision. You didn't initially wound the deer and if he was hit in the ham but not the femoral artery, he'll probably survive that wound.

A 60 yard shot at a whitetail is just a Hail Mary shot. Even if you can drive tacks at that distance, the deer can and will react to the shot so you have no way of controlling where you will hit the deer.

How would you have felt if you gut shot that deer? Then he'd be dead for sure....a slow miserable death. Just as much chance you'd have gut shot him as put him down cleanly.

If a shot doesn't feel right to you, don't let somebody else talk you into it. Only time I would advocate a 60 yard bow shot is if you had just hit him in the gut. Hard to make that worse with a Hail Mary follow up.
 
I ussually go on the "once they are shot. shoot'em f you think you have a chance" rule, but thats me, not you, you should do what feels right for you...

I once had a hunting buddy seriously get mad at me cause he shot a little buck straight down through the back with a fixed blade, it ran 400 yds and stood by my tree, blood all over it, staggering around, so heck I shot it trough the lounds and killed it...he came along trailing later, and I yelled he's here...He got all pissy saying I shouldn't shoot another mans deer, i told him I shot it in no intention of it being mine, I was just helping him get it down, and I still stand by that decision...
 
neutral88 said:
I ussually go on the "once they are shot. shoot'em f you think you have a chance" rule, but thats me, not you, you should do what feels right for you...

I once had a hunting buddy seriously get mad at me cause he shot a little buck straight down through the back with a fixed blade, it ran 400 yds and stood by my tree, blood all over it, staggering around, so heck I shot it trough the lounds and killed it...he came along trailing later, and I yelled he's here...He got all pissy saying I shouldn't shoot another mans deer, i told him I shot it in no intention of it being mine, I was just helping him get it down, and I still stand by that decision...
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Doesn't sound like much of a buddy.
 
If you know that you can stack arrows at 50 and 60yrds in a target...then why second guess yourself in the field? Just make sure your lanes are clear...
 

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