ORIGINAL: wholelottagobble
..I held at full draw for at least a minute and finally decided to take the shot with him facing me at 25 yards, his head was down while he fed. I picked out a spot where his neck met his body and let the arrow fly... It is the first deer I haven't shot broadside and I don't want to make a habit of doing so. Do others of you often shoot deer that arent broadside with your bow?????
Iwould never take that shot, no matter how big or small the deer is. I do volunteer tracking on a military base, and quartering-on shotsoftenresult in a lost deer.I do wish you luck in finding yourdeer.
ORIGINAL: wholelottagobble
...A combination of fast approaching darkness, fatigue from holding my draw, and flat out just wanting to run an arrow through the vitals of that buck helped me decide to squeeze that release...I sure hope I made the right call!
What you've saidcannever justify taking a poor or "hopeful" shot at a deer. The choice to shoot was not the best choice you could have made. Part of the mystique of bowhunting is having deer in range that you would like to get a shot off at;if the good shot never presents, you learn to suck it up and hope, maybe next time... It's always too late
after the fact to be wishing you had passed ona particularshot. Again I wish you well in the recovery effort.
I'll get off my "high horse" for now, but it seemsa lot of folks won't accept the collective wisdom of what constitutes apoor shot, and have to learnfrom their own personal experience.
-fsh