I can't believe the responses that I have gotten from this story. Do any of you actually think that I wanted to leave a deer in the woods to rot. Let me explain a little more for you. I had just finished a 12 hour shift. It was already 65 degress when I stopped looking. Even if I had gone and got a couple of guys to help me look, which by the way would have been a mircale since everyone that I know has to work for a living, the meat would have probably not have been any good anyway.
I felt bad enough shooting an animal and not knowing if it layed in the cut-over and suffered or not. And now, I find out that I am the only person in the world to ever have this happen to.
You people are pathetic!!
I guess none of you have ever had this to happen to you? If it hasn't yet, I promise you, it will.
By-the-way, this is what I was searching through:
This will probably be my last post on Hunting.net not that any of you professional hunters give a rat's ass!