I had my truck packed with all of my hunting gear yesterday morning. I had my ground blind, my hunting clothes, my bow, and everything else I would need for a Saturday morning hunt. My plan was to drive to western Maryland yesterday evening so that I could finally do some bowhunting on Saturday morning. Before I left for work yesterday, I pulled up weather.com and saw that they were calling for four to six inches of rain, so I bagged the whole idea and thought I'd put it off another week and hope for better weather next weekend...

Which leads me to my question: I've done a lot of rifle hunting in the rain, but how do you guys feel about bowhunting in the rain? When you gun hunt, there's typicallynot a lot of tracking that needs to be done because the deer don't normally run very far after the shot. But when bowhunting, how in the heck would you find a blood trail if it was raining steadily? In no time flat, I would think that whatever blood the deer has left behind would get washed away. It seems to reason that bowhunting in anything more than a slight drizzle or shower would be a stupidthing to do because of the likelihood of losing the deer. What does everybody else think?