View Poll Results: Have you ever, for any reason, lost a game animal?
Yes
37
88.10%
No
5
11.90%
Voters: 42. You may not vote on this poll
Unrecovered Game?
12-21-2014, 08:09 AM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Virginia / West Virginia
Posts: 4,906
I have. Thankfully, not in a good while. Most that I have lost was when I was young and learning to bowhunt. I don't know how many deer I've taken exactly, definitely over 100, probably closer to 120. I think I've lost 5 or 6 best I can recall.
These days I try and take high percentage shots pretty much every time. The other thing is I've learned to track deer much better over the years, which has helped me find a few that would probably have been lost in my earlier years.
These days I try and take high percentage shots pretty much every time. The other thing is I've learned to track deer much better over the years, which has helped me find a few that would probably have been lost in my earlier years.
12-21-2014, 08:16 AM
#3
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 9,557
To make this fair. I'll put this poll on other hunting forums that are more active to get a better average. This is just a black powder forum which is limited to how many take the poll, plus it's leaving out the majority of hunters which are bow and rifle hunters.
12-21-2014, 08:25 AM
#4
Typical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: The "empire" state-NY
Posts: 583
Good idea; thanks!
12-21-2014, 08:45 AM
#5
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 21,193
I have never lost one to a muzzleloader. But many many years ago I shot a buck and waited for it to go lay down. And someone beat me to it. Never fired a shot mind you, but took the deer.
I only had one muzzleloader deer that almost beat my odds. But a friend and I tracked it all night with flashlights. No guns mind you. We finally found it in a bed. And I will leave it at that... It was a nice deer though.
I only had one muzzleloader deer that almost beat my odds. But a friend and I tracked it all night with flashlights. No guns mind you. We finally found it in a bed. And I will leave it at that... It was a nice deer though.
12-21-2014, 08:50 AM
#6
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 9,557
I have never lost one to a muzzleloader. But many many years ago I shot a buck and waited for it to go lay down. And someone beat me to it. Never fired a shot mind you, but took the deer.
I only had one muzzleloader deer that almost beat my odds. But a friend and I tracked it all night with flashlights. No guns mind you. We finally found it in a bed. And I will leave it at that... It was a nice deer though.
I only had one muzzleloader deer that almost beat my odds. But a friend and I tracked it all night with flashlights. No guns mind you. We finally found it in a bed. And I will leave it at that... It was a nice deer though.
12-21-2014, 09:11 AM
#7
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 21,193
I have to disagree with that. I did not recover it as much as I found where it was recovered. Granted if the person that took the deer had not, I would have recovered it. But unless I am eating off that deer I shot, I did not recover it.
12-22-2014, 05:28 AM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Hayes, Va.
Posts: 2,332
I've lost a deer once. I spent 26 yrs. in the USAF and qualified expert marksman every year!!! So it is possible that schmidt happens!!!!
Muley you need to take up a hobby to calm down that old mind of yours. Or here is a novel thought, how about just reading a post and not posting an annoying response??
Merry Christmas Mr. Scrooge!!!!!!!
Muley you need to take up a hobby to calm down that old mind of yours. Or here is a novel thought, how about just reading a post and not posting an annoying response??
Merry Christmas Mr. Scrooge!!!!!!!