Before I piss everyone off I want to say that I have hit and lost a few deer myself. I feel completely terrible when it happens and I have compasion for others when it happens to them but let's all be honest. A good hitthrough the boiler room will result in a dead deer in a manner of seconds not hours. Usually the deer won't get out of your sight or if you can't see very far you will likely hear the crash in the distance. If the deer is alivean hourafter you shoot it, you got a bad hit not a good one. You may indeed recover the deer but even if you do your arrow or bullet was defininely not placed as good as it could have or dare I say should have been. I wouldn't make an issue out of this but I think a lot of guys need to face up to the reality that they are not as good as they may think they are and it is the animal that suffers for it. I think when you get a bad hit you need to think about what you did wrong, accept it, andthen think abouthow to avoid it happening again. If we just try and justify our mistakes by calling bad hits good ones we don't improve. Just my 2 cents. Sorry if I offended anyone.