I was at a function recently and talking with a friend. He introduced me to a friend, and as usual the talk quickly went to hunting, bowhunting.
I live on the Indiana/Illinois line. I'm in IN, he was from IL.
He told me of a time when he went out hunting with 5 arrows and arrowed 5 does as they passed by.
Some he said were clean pass-throughs, and others he said he saw running off with shafts sticking out.
He then said, if he found more deer than he had tags, he could go purchase more, since you have 48 hours (I think he said) to check them in. I don't know IL laws, so I'm just repeating his words.
Obviously, he didn't expect to find all 5 deer and check them all in.
The worst part of the story was, he told me that he couldn't find any of them.

I was so taken back, and with his friend there too, I couldn't say a word.
I've heard of guys poaching a bunch of deer, but at least they got the deer.
In my mind this is the worst of the worst...to shoot each deer that walks by and then not find any.

Not to brag, but I've never shot a deer that I didn't recover, no matter how long it took me.
Hope I don't eat those words.
But I would never shoot multiple deer at the same time.
How could you not find 5 shot deer? The woods should have looked like a blood bath.