ORIGINAL: virginiashadow
This place helped me score my first archery deer years ago (2002)...a little 7 point. I came on here all distraught because I made a poor shot based on the angle of the deer, then coupled that with taking up the trail after only 30 minutes. I searched for 2 hours before dark, then came back the next day and searched for almost 6 hours. Finally something in me remembered what some of the guys said on here....I was about ready to give up, exhasuted from walking up and down steep hills the past two days when I heard this....." a gut shot deer sometimes runs downhill and will bed next to water". I turned around back into the woods and walked a good half mile back in on the creek. I spun around and backtracked, finding that buck laid up under a tree that was hanging over in the creek!
This thread is fantastic.
Thanks vs, if this thread finds only one deer a year then it's worth it. I think everyone gives some incredible advice because when it happens, it can be tough and disheartening. I wish I would have had this knowledge and information available to me when I was coming up through the ranks of bowhunting. It may very well have changed the outlook of my walls.