blindsquirel I really do not feel you did anything wrong, although I have not had my first bow kill from talking to a lot of bowhunters occasionaly you will lose one. The whole thing is you did what any ethical hunter would do, you busted your butt trying to recover this deer, you looked for two days in pouring rain, I don't know what else you could have done. The important thing is you did not just blow it off and continue to hunt. Considering I have not had my first bow kill I would hesitate hunting if I thought heavy rain was coming, but how the heck can anyone predict something like that. You tried, that is what is important.

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club