If anyone has ever watched Bill Jordan try to shoot a deer than I would say YES, there are probably a ton of animals either gut shot or mamed severly by so called pro's. I'm not just picking on him but mainly him for his poor shot selection and his boasting after a bad or inhumane shot. Knight & Hale or two of the most informative hunters to ever have a video production and they even show poor shot selection over and over again. Tom Miranda some 10 years ago was the gut shot king in those older videos.

I have in upwards up 200 diffrent hunting films and there are many that should not have the previlegde to harvest animalsin my oppinion and these are the peoplethat get paid to do the greatest job in the world. I understand mother nature doesnt always present the perfect shot and I'm also not saying that I am a perfect hunter either but, if a man is going to kill a animal he should at least try to do it quickly and effectively. The Drury's and Primos family of videos are the only ones that have filmed the shot and told about the loss of a great buck that couldnt be found and they did it as honestly as they could.

When i was just getting into hunting 10 years ago I probably lost 7 or 8 deer, yes I felt terrible about not recovering that animal but now that I look back at it, thats what made me a better archer, tracker and all around hunter. Mistakes happen, but its how you learn from them that changes you into a real sportsman. Now, a after a bad shot I just go home and replay everything that happened up to the time I released the arrow and I wait and then I go back and try to find the animal unlike when I was a kid and just rush in. I never had anyone to teach me the rights and wrongs of hunting and maybe thats why I get so pissed off when a movie star still consistently makes bad decisions. They are the ones alot of us hunters wish we could grow up to be. Who wouldnt want to hunt for a livin?