HuntingNet.com Forums - View Single Post - Bad shot
Thread: Bad shot
View Single Post
Old 10-24-2008 | 02:55 PM
  #13  
ScottF2345's Avatar
ScottF2345
Fork Horn
 
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 158
Likes: 0
From:
Default RE: Bad shot

Don't beat yourself up over it. Keep looking, because she is down somewhere. I put a bad shot on my very first buck that gave me a shot opportunity last week. I hit him in the shoulder, and I was shooting the Rage's. I guess shoulder shots aren't their specialty. I tracked mine for quite some time, until we could hardly see with a flashlight and ran out of blood. I figured he was down somewhere, so I let him go overnight.

Just my luck, it rained. No blood trail anymore. My uncle and grandpa went out that morning while I was at school. I skipped my second class to try to comb through the area to look for him. I looked through the area for almost 5 hours, and I even asked the neighbor if I could check his property and I looked around there for a while, just in case he jumped the road. I only stopped because I looked everywhere possible for this deer.

Keep looking, until you know that you have put all your effort into finding your deer. If you don't find her, you at least know you tried as hard as possible to find her. You owe it to her and yourself.
ScottF2345 is offline  
Reply