I had a doe and two fawns come in this morning. I took a 20 yard broadside shot with her quartering away just the slightest bit. I hit low about 2 inches behind shoulders. The arrow passed through hitting a tree on the back side. she took of and the arrow broke and both pieces fell out. There was an immediate blood trail from the point of impact. Massive amounts of bright red blood...no bubbles. We tracked her for about 100 yds and the blood just disappeared. It took us about 15 minutes to track her 100 yards. then we spent 2.5- 3 hours searching. There is no doubt that she is dead and this bothers me immensely. This is the first deer that i have not been able to recover.
I would still be looking for her except she crossed the property line onto a property that the owner WILL not permit anyone on for any reason. I guess what i want to know is did i take a ill advised shot. I have only been bowhunting for 2 years and arrowed 6 deer and never have a deer travel over 50 yards from the impact site.