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Old 12-05-2006 | 06:38 PM
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Rob/PA Bowyer
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One thing I've surely learned in over 80 bowkills is that what we think we see is not always so.
Amen! A truer statement has never been written, an example, okay...

I've written this before. I have on video a buck that I shot. When I pulled the trigger at 19 yards, I know for a fact that I saw my arrow pass through this buck just above the heart, both lungs....I know that's what I saw. I couldn't believe when I watched the deer run down the field and my camera man turned the camera on me. I wanted to yell at him and tell him to film the deer go down but I just notioned that to him and he shook his head no...you missed, my eyes popped out "what", I saw a double lung....he handed me the camera and I watched the footage and realized what I didn't see was the deer dropped on the release and my arrow glanced off his back passing under the hide but over the spine. I wouldn't have believed it and if I didn't have it on video I would have been in for a very long fruitless track job and heart break.

We shot that buck in late muzzleloader, 6 weeks later with a huge gash across his back and yes, on video...

I'm shocked at the thinking that there is a void area, I don't understand this thinking for reasons mentioned from davidmil not to mention what we've learned over the years.
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