Going to look for one this morning

[TN Larry]

Yeah if he crashed I'd be down immediately looking where I heard the crash. Dead is dead. I only wait if I'm unsure. Flashlights and headlamps are made for seeing in the dark. I don't use them walking in and out but I sure use them if I've got a deer down and it gets dark.

Agree with @TNLynn and @Ski. I'm not leaving one if I think I heard it crash and pretty sure I made a good shot. In the case of @philsanchez76 yesterday, I would have waited bc the arrow told a gut hit.

Either way, good luck and hope you found him.

 

[Tenntrapper]

Good luck finding him. I am the same way, I avoid evening (last light) hunting, I usually come off stand about 30 minutes before that.

Around here, my best hunting is about 15 minutes before end of legal shooting.

 

[UTGrad]

A good hit and a crash has me retrieving the deer that night.

 

[CliffordN]

It's midday... An update?

 

[Gravey]

Good luck finding him. I am the same way, I avoid evening (last light) hunting, I usually come off stand about 30 minutes before that.

I do also,get down 30 minutes before dark!

That's the magic time. The last 2 bucks I've killed have been with a muzzleloader literally at the last minute of legal shooting light.

Hope you found him. Not to pile on but as others have said, if you heard him crash I'd be after him. Good luck!

 

[philsanchez76]

Shot one right before dark yesterday evening. I'm pretty sure it was a good shot and I think I heard him crash, but left him overnight just to be sure. Hopefully I will find him quickly this morning. I don't like evening hunting for this very reason, but you just have to go when you get the chance.

Oh man here we go again! I hope you found him already and are just making us wait cuz youre draggin or skinnin! mine from 2 days ago ended up being a perfect shot, just no blood and he went into an unbelievable thicket. the only meat I lost after 20 hours was the tenderloins. GL man!

 

[UTGrad]

I guess the hit wasn't good and the crash was a coon falling out of a tree.

 

[C1295]

I have had to many Coyotes destroy them over night... my butts taking them with me or aint leaving.

 

[Omega]

Around here, my best hunting is about 15 minutes before end of legal shooting.

That's the magic time. The last 2 bucks I've killed have been with a muzzleloader literally at the last minute of legal shooting light.

Hope you found him. Not to pile on but as others have said, if you heard him crash I'd be after him. Good luck!

Yea, I have been caught climbing down a few times. But after leaving a doe suffer all night after a bad shot some 23 years ago, I have avoided hunting last light unless I can stay out looking and field dressing. If I can't, or just don't feel like it, I get down and go home. I am not OCD, but if I have an animal down, I feel it is my responsibility to keep looking until I have exhausted every means to go after it. I have only lost one animal, which a hunting partner shot, a hog, tracked it for an hour or so at night until we came upon a creek that it went into, which was also the property line. With as much as I hear yotes at night at both of the places I currently hunt, there is no way they wouldn't find a deer if left over night.

 

[philsanchez76]

Update?

 

[Rebels20]

If you felt the huge need to let us all know your situation but do not bother updating what was the point???

 

[knightrider]

Counted the chickens before the eggs hatched ?

 

[gasman]

Maybe necks year @RUGER @rem270 @cbhunter

 

[rem270]

Maybe necks year @RUGER @rem270 @cbhunter

Did he get a pic of it before it ran off?

 

[Vince]

Glad I just saw this, else would have been checking all day for an update. Hope OP found the deer he shot.

Like few others mentioned, most of my luck has been that last 15 minutes minutes before sunset. I hate having to go after the deer with a flashlight after sun light is gone but that's the time most of the deer showed up for me. I am so tempted to get out before I have to use a flashlight but last Fri, I had full intent to sit the full legal 30 min after sunset. And that paid off.

 

[Ski]

 

[megalomaniac]

I made a bad shot on a deer a few years ago. Had to wait overnight as well.

That it. no rest of the story.

 

[CliffordN]

It was a great story... With no ending....

 

[rem270]

As Paul Harvey would say, That's the rest of the story.

 

[philsanchez76]

Alright this is my last check in