Fatal Mistake

[blackhawk_archery]

Well I decided to hunt this evening,at about 5:30 pm I was looking out the window of my blind and here comes what appears to be a decent sized doe I draw back and wait for the deer to step in to my shooting lane and release the arrow making a complete pass thru at 10 yards I thought it was all great and a succesful hunt so I sat until dark and left the woods for around 2 hours and came back in and looked for blood found good blood where I shot the deer but because I made the complete pass there wasnt much blood after that holes sealed up,I found the deer 35 or so yards away what I thought was a doe turned out to be a button buck no more the 75 pounds

[fingerz42]

So BECAUSE you had a complete pass thru, you had less blood? Thats what you believe?

[deertale]

I wouldn't call that fatal, those button bucks are tough to see. shooting any deer with your bow is a major accomplishment. Many hunters on this forum eat tag soup. Don't beat yourself up on this one - honor the deers life and enjoy the wonderful meat!

[blackhawk_archery]

Im not going to beat myself up about it but would of liked to have seen him grow up to a big buck but everything happend so fast and being hungry for some deer meat didnt help the situation,but I will deal with it and enjoy the meat as far as the complete pass thru goes what happen in my case is i made a good shot but because the holes was straight across the blood didnt drain out it filled up in the chest which didnt matter to me I knew it wasnt going far.Thanks

[Bow-4-It]

It was a fatal mistake alright......for the deer. Don't worry about it. Sometimes the size of a deer is hard to judge if they are alone. Plus, I imagine it would be extremely difficult to see the nubs of a button buck at ground level.