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Post by piercings4u on Nov 16, 2014 20:46:00 GMT -5
So how do you come to terms with it when you wound a deer and cant find it?
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Post by nfalls116 on Nov 16, 2014 20:49:51 GMT -5
Go back and look for it again.
And go to "the range" and find out if it was me or the gun... and work on both as a team anyway.
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Post by piercings4u on Nov 16, 2014 21:08:47 GMT -5
It jumped a fence to neighboring property and we aren't allowed to cross it ..
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Post by saltydog on Nov 16, 2014 21:11:54 GMT -5
Contact your CO he could help get you access to look for the deer.....
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Post by jdaily on Nov 16, 2014 21:19:17 GMT -5
When it goes where you can't, you have to tell yourself, You did the best you could do. If it was a bad hit, get to the range and practice. I arrowed a doe 2 weeks ago in the left front shoulder at last light on a Saturday. Sunday, after the hunt, I spent the rest of the day looking for that doe. Had some blood for about 70 yrds and then occasional blood for a bit, then nothing. But I walked that whole woods looking in every honeysuckle patch and dead fall. It happens! Prepare, so it doesn't happen again.
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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 16, 2014 21:44:32 GMT -5
Contact your CO he could help get you access to look for the deer..... ^^^^ THIS If the CO can't convince the landowner to allow you to track and recover the deer you have done all that you can do. Better luck next time |
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Post by esshup on Nov 17, 2014 0:14:31 GMT -5
So how do you come to terms with it when you wound a deer and cant find it? I lost one in 1998. Resolved never to do it again, and resolved to spend more time at the range knowing the trajectory of my gun and load. Also resolved never to take a shot that I didn't have 100% confidence in making. I also learned (since then) never to take someone else's estimate on a range to an animal, even if they are a professional guide. That's why the laser rangefinder stays in my pack. If the shot is iffy, don't take it. It's not like it is the only deer around and you need it to feed the family or they'll starve. For your situation, I agree, call the CO and see if they can get you permission to recover the deer. I have the local CO's business card in my wallet, with his cell phone # on it. If the possibility of the deer going off the property and I can't recover it, I either take a head shot or a high shoulder shot. Either drops the deer in it's tracks. |
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Post by parson on Nov 17, 2014 5:33:51 GMT -5
We ought to feel bad when we lose one, but most who hunt much will experience it. Years ago I had an arrow deflected by a small branch, tracked the deer through fields and brush until there was no trail to follow.
Almost gave up hunting, but after a while decided to improve my skills and try to limit shots to eliminate as many variables as possible.
Those who lose one and immediately look for another one to shoot are the ones that concern me.
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Post by swilk on Nov 17, 2014 6:32:56 GMT -5
It happens to everyone..... anyone who believes they can ensure that it never happens will be proven wrong sooner or later.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 17, 2014 6:47:03 GMT -5
There's always the possibilty that it lived. I put two arrows in 10-pointer the first week of November 2010, and swore he had to have been down within 50 yards. I sat in the tree at least 45 minutes after the shot, then slipped out and went home to get tracking help.
We tracked that buck all over the place until we came to a bloody bed and backed out until the next morning. We resumed the trail and found two or three bloody beds over hundreds of yards on the next ridge over, then nothing. The buck was killed by a vehicle on a snowy night in January, and still had one of my broken arrows and broadhead in it. I would have bet money that it had died the night I shot it...
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Post by sakorifle on Nov 17, 2014 9:16:48 GMT -5
Greetings
Anyone that tells me they have not lost or wounded a deer simply have not shot many deer.
It happen,practice so the chance of it happening again are minimised, that is about all one can do.
Above all visualise why it happened, check your gear, then go get a deer.
Regards
Billy
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Post by windingwinds on Nov 17, 2014 12:53:51 GMT -5
If you remember from my posts, last year I lost a buck same way to same kind of neighbor. It sucked. It still bothers me. It's not something I will ever be comfortable with. We try to stay to the middle or farther from that south fenceline when hunting, which I was in middle when I shot him. He just went farther than he should've. Had to be a bad shot. Practice practice, my favorite time to work out kinks is the off season, which is why I stopped bowhunting this year.
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Post by boonechaser on Nov 17, 2014 13:17:12 GMT -5
Yotes will appreciate it. (It's part of hunting.) Get back out there and hunt for another one.
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Post by chubwub on Nov 17, 2014 14:45:40 GMT -5
I got a more powerful weapon...
I lost my first kill to a jerky neighbor. It was my first season, first deer, first bowkill. Allegedly the shot I took was badly botched and upset the entire neighborhood but I will never know for sure what the real story is with the flight of my arrow since a competing hunter took the deer and processed it and then spread rumors to everyone that I had shot it in the neck with a .22 rifle. I also took a personal oath that I would make my shots ever more lethal next time and do my best to drop the deer in its tracks so that I would never risk losing one again to a jerk and give them that satisfaction.
When crossbows became legal I went ahead and upgraded to one to take advantage of having a heavier poundage. My draw for a compound was only 48lbs and would only penetrate a target about 3/4s of the way through. My crossbow accidentally went through a foam target intended for crossbows and completely through a metal gate behind it. I am accurate enough with it that I can robinhood some of my bolts while on a stationary rest at 20 yards if I am not careful.
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