Having been there...(not my shot) the first thing I did was contact the game warden the following morning and informed them of what had happened and what I wanted to do. Then I asked what I should do to satisify the state laws. I was informed that I had a couple of options...1) it was after the season close and to leave things as they were 2) go and follow up the blood trail and see ifwe could find the animal and if it was dead then recover it. These were the only optionswe were given. The Game Warden didn't want someone out with a bow shooting at a deer with the possibility that the wrong deer might be shot and and you know where that leads, plus the season was closed.

We went looking and never found the deer.