well fellow hunters i joines the ranks of the crossbow hunters elite this past tuesday with a horton legend 175.on saturday evening i thought it was time to try it out.i went to my property and began to wonder where and how this should began.i found a trail coming into a small field away from everyone else and any chances of interruption.about 45 minutes before dark i caught movement to my right where the trail came into the field and out stepped a yearling.as i watched out came another,obviously twins,as they picked and ate mom shows up. she begans to feed and mill about,being on the ground and not behind a blind i was concerned the young ones would see me or wind me in the swirling winds,but i made it through.mom moved about and presented me with a nice broadside shot about 25 yards out.after about an hour we found her.we could not figure out why there was so little sign of blood to follow,one drop here and there very very little but we pressed on.upon finding her we rolled her over to check the exit wound and again we noticed very little blood on the ground.as we field dressed her we found that somehow the arrow had turned or delected on a bone and exited farther back and part of the entrails had actually been pulled up into the exit wound by the arrow upon exit.this explained then why we found so little blood.this i hope will serve as a lesson for younger hunters to always always look until you are certain the animal is dead or survived the hit.we owe the animal that much respect for giving his or her life for our tablefare.this being my first experience with a crossbow and the first trip with the new bow i learned a valuable lesson as well "don't mess with a crossbow you will loose". good hunting and be repsectable to the landowners that give you permission.