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Old 08-07-2007 | 05:22 PM
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Default RE: Matrix deer and high shot?

definently looks high to begin with...atleast it was a clean miss...looks like he gave her a hair cut...

i hate to admit it...last year i shot an alert buck...my lighted nock told me i sent it home perfect...till he dropped like a sack of rocks...he took it really high...probably in the back bone...he busted my shaft and took 3 inches with him. a 400yd SPARSE trail of pindrops and a 7 or 8man grid search for most of a day came up fruitless. im sure he lived to see another day. pretty sure he got killed in flintlock season...someone killed a 14" wide high, thick 9pt in the area...that describes him nicely....

i never really knew NOT to shoot an alert deer...he came through chasing does...i stopped him and the second he stopped i let the arrow fly...i should just let him run and hoped he came back...plenty of daylight and i saw the does twice that hunt...

just a lesson we gotta learn...i learned the hard way...
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