Your missing the point that his stories keep contradicting themselves. It is hard to take someone serious and give honest advice when you don't know what to believe, right?

-I alread pointed out that first he says he saw the deer again with the arrow in, then says without the arrow.

- First he says "hardly giving me time to shoot" then he says the buck was "20yds broadside.front leg forward standing perfectly still. wind in favor."
- First he says "well went out today on the farm looking for him" (at 1303 hrs, so...how much time did he look?), then he says, just two hours later, "i went out checking fences today and working on my motorcross track."
- Plus, you gotta wonder when he says guts, but arrow stays in. He says looked but didn't find anything so doesn't know if he should look more, then says only looked for 30 yard radius.

I for one have not said anything about his mistake being stupid. It just doesn't sit right with me to see stuff changing as the post goes along.I dunno, maybe he is just young and getting the events mixed up in his head?

trailrider894, you said you been watching this buck all summer with trail cams, let's see him. I'll say this, if you were back on the net posting about it by 1:00, you didn't look long enough. If you really saw him long enough the next day to glass him as stated, you saw him long enough to know if he is hurt bad or not.