Killer,
Your way out of line. Why must you be so negative and ignorant in your own views of this hunters experience? There may have been other issues leading to his wifes miss. She could have flinched, hit a limb or numerous other circumstances. She may have made a perfect shot and was unable to recover the deer. This stuff does occur. The gun could be dead onfor all we know. Just this past weekend I saw footage of a 50 cal BP bullet bouncing right off the shoulder of a deer. It knocked the deer down just like a thru and thru. But the buck got up on his feet 20 seconds later and ran thru the woods with his tail between his legs. The PROFESSIONALhunter belived he made a great shot and could not belive that he was unable to locate this deer. He had to go back to the studio to verify what excatually happened in this case. No one is perfect and I can't believe that youra perfect hunter. For a father to be pissed a his son or daughter for missing a deer is a poor example of a father figure. Negative reinforcement does no goodfor teaching a young hunterabout the sport we love. Postivie reinforcement is the only way to teach someone to learn.


Merlin,
Best of luck to you and your wife. Hopefully, you performed a grid search in the direction in which the deer ran. You do need to look as long a possible, and come back if needed. You want to be 100% sure that it was a clean miss. This past weekend I shot a buck in a wide open fieldwith a 7mm mag and I had no sign of blood or hair anywhere. I eventually found the buck after performing a grid search within the woods in the direction he ran. I still found no blood, until the spot where he layed down. Hopefully, she get to harvest a deer with her new gun.