One time - in 1992 - one of the guys made a bad shot on a nice buck. It was a Hind Quarter shot - an he knew he messed up on the shot. The deer ran into a swamp. Rather than follow it - he came back to camp to get help - and we set up 3 guys around the swamp while he and my uncle trailed it. There was alot blood, and they thought they would find it dead - but such was not the case and the deer jumped from its bed - and bolted. I was in a tall pine tree at the end of the swamp - and I heard them yell that they jumped it. When it came by me it was really moving and dodging - and it was thick - spindly willows mostly. We when I was clear to shoot - I shot one, two, three and my last...four shots at the deer. He never slowed down - then he stopped past me - when I was staring at my empty gun - and looked around - then tipped over dead. Ihit him (12ga) all 4 times behind the shoulder - but you never would have known. With all the thick trees - I assummed I could be missing, or hitting brush.
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