If I were you I would make sure my rifle was sighted in just in case. I had no idea a straight down shot was that tricky, I've made a few and the deer drop stone dead.


On the light side, a death in a few hours/minutes whatever is still alot faster than the way the deer would die naturaly by old age, a car, or sickness. It is rare someone comes to this board with this kind of honesty telling it just how it was. And I'm glad you did. Now because of you HUNDREDS of people can learn from this experience.I'm not going to chew you out for this, others here will have no problem with that. I don't disagree with you hunting does, it is an important part of whitetail manegment. What I do diagree with was that you saw one deer go down in it's tracks, why didn't you go tag it when you got out of your stand? The deer wouldn't have suffered as much, you could have finished her right then.
Just out of curiosity, what kind of gun were you shooting?

I'm sure if you will do things different from now on. The meat from that one gut shot doe is ruined, the deer died mostly in vein. Pick your shots better in the future, we owe it to the deer.

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