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Old 11-02-2007 | 08:46 AM
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Moebedda
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From: Little Chute, WI
Default RE: Clean miss vs. wounded deer

ORIGINAL: GMMAT

Just had some more time to think about this.

It is and it isn't. Let's take a shot where a deer ducks. Arrow flies right over it's back. The SHOT is EXACTLY where the archer aimed. The TARGET moved. Can't blame the archer for that.....unless there's an issue with shooting at a deer that's already on high alert.

It CAN be a worse shot (clean miss)....and it can be a GREAT shot. The target dictates much of how we perceive the outcome of the shot. I jus think that the guy who wounds a deer gets unfairly POUNDED, sometimes.....when he's done nothing worse than the guy who missed, clean (as far as execution).....and sometimes put a better shot on the animal.

I see both sides.
I had one move on me a couple weeks ago. I did learn a lesson about the whole thing. The 8 point was chasing a doe. I used my mouth to grunt to try and stop them, and then did it again. They both stopped on the 2nd louder mouth grunt. By then the buck was about 43 yards away. I let the 281FPS 420 grain Hammerhead tipped arrow go, it looked like it was heading right for the goods. It seemed that Both deer ran immediately after the shot. My Allegiance is super quiet, but the slighest noise on an alert deer will send them running. The deer ran about 50 yards and stopped, stood there for a minute wobbleing with the doe looking at him and fell over in the bean field. I saw his legs go up in the air. I figured him for dead. I waited, and about 10 minutes later, I saw this deer try to get up. He couldn't. It was a light rain, so the beans were quiet. I started to stalk to where I last saw him. It took me about 15 minutes to get within 15 yards of him. I saw his neck, pulled back and let one go on his neck. The deer, jumped up, ran about 100 yards into the woods, where i saw him stop and fall over again.

End result was, I hit the deer with the 1st shot in the back leg half way between the knee and the rump. While buthering the deer, I found the broadhead logged up by the hind quarter ball socket. The Hammerhead hit the back leg and slid all the way up the bone to the socket taking out the femoral artery and causing massive damage. This was the worst shot I have ever seen on a deer, and if I would have let him lay, he would have died in that spot.

Deer moved, Horrible shot, great broadhead, recovered deer, lesson learned. Don't shoot alert deer at that range. They will dodge your arrow even on the fastest of bows.

I shoot 4 inch groups at 50 yards.
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