ORIGINAL: NY Bowhunter
I'm surprised not more people said that it was wrong to shoot at a running deer, a few people said it, but not as many as I would have thought.
Because it's not worth it.
Saying to only take a shot you are 100% sure will quickly kill the deer is just talk.
Just talk? An arrow doesn't leave my rest or a bullet leave my gun unless I'm 110% sure the deer is dead. What is your percentage 50/50 or so?
It is what we all hope for but not realistic.
Why not?
Because it just doesn't happen. I have killed 7 this year, no wounded deer, but that doesn't mean I have not wounded one before or that I will never wound one again. In my originalpost that you picked a couple of sentences from to take out of context, I implied that it is the shooters call. There are too many variables for a question like this to be realistic. Lets be specific, is the deer running full speed, flat or bounding, how many deer are there, is it open woods, a cutover, a field, what is the weapon, the distance, and on and on and on and on.