ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Let's be honest, Atlas. That thread's been erased from the system....or I'd go back and cut/paste your initial reply.
http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=1694383&mpage=1&key=hit&#169 4383
Your remark to Davidmil was "David: I respect you as a person and as an experienced hunter.....but you have NO IDEA of how much my buck was quartering. With all due respect (and I mean that)....your statement is unfounded."
My reply.
" Where have we all heard this before??
If you are just going to dismiss every option that you don't agree with based soley on the fact that we weren't sitting in the tree with you........then I don't see the point in posting. You already have your mind made up and no one will convince you otherwise because of your old standby excuse of "You were the only one there" so therefore are the only one who could possibly know what happened.
What you fail to realize is that many guys here HAVE been in your EXACT shoes on MANY occasions. They are trying to help you by giving you advice on years and years of experience. Were they in YOUR tree?? Of course not.........have they "Been there, and done that"??? YES.......and in many cases for years and years and years.
Why not lower your defenses a little bit and actually learn something from all the people here and the vast knowledge they have to share. Instead of going on the offensive every time someone questions your story.
You have been hunting DEER for 1 whole year (and a couple days). In that short amount of time you have been busted and blamed your equipment and REFUSED to accept any other possible explanation........now you have put a bad shot on a deer that you don't know where you hit, are unsure of what the blood sign meant, and you got down too fast and probably pushed him into the next county. I am having a hard time finding anything in your story that you did right (except the valiant search effort). Perhaps most alarming is this all happened when presented with the BEST kill shot available. Quartering away at 12 yards??? That should be a slam dunk unless a MAJOR problem was involved. Your point of aim was wrong as David mentioned which also suggests you don't know a deer's anatomy (I guess that post WAS needed).
Your attempts to recover the deer are admirable and I don't envy the feeling yu have in your gut over the outcome of this mess..........BUT, it's time to face the facts that you screwed up HUGE and on MANY levels.............I know it's hard for you to accept the fact that you are a novice because you have hunted for many years..........but you are.......this thread should have a big red ROOKIE MISTAKE stamp on it.
The sooner you realize this and open yourself up to advice, and the help of others the sooner you will not be making so many mistakes.
I really hope you start listening to advice soon because it sounds like you have deer all over the place by you and these "I hit one and can't find him" threads get old really fast."
You interjected SO MANY things into your response that had NO reality to them....all in an attempt to make what i did look even worse.
Really??
It was simply inuendo and false pretenses that had no business being interjected.
Really?
A likely explanation? If you weren't there....can you positively tell me what spooked my deer? Can you tell me what did? I'd never claim to tell you what went wrong in one of your deer hunting scenarios......simply because I hadn't experienced the same troubles. I wasn't there.
I have no trouble admitting when I do something wrong. Ask my wife
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Could the noise from my WBhave affected my deer, that day? If the answer is YES......then why is that so hard to believe?
You are hopeless.