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Old 10-13-2009 | 12:04 PM
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Hes right. you guys are very lucky as always on the internet, everyone guns shoot under an inch, deer are alway recovered with a bow.

I know better I have a lot of friends, a lot, we all gun hunt and bow hunt and with out a doubt deer are lost bowhunting. Its a fact. It just seems that things go wrong way to easy with a bow.
If your just a little off with a bow hes gone, shure hes dead but where.
A little off with a gun, doesnt matter he dieing quick.
I have killed quite a few with a bow and when that shot is perfect they dont go far at all, but be a tad low or a tad back and your going to have trouble.
Then theres equipment failure, I had some mechanicals that worked some times and sometime they crumpled on impact giving very little penetration. Then theres the deer that jump the string and the shot ends up being placed poorly.
I have lost 7 deer in 20 years with a bow and have recovered about 14. and in 25+ years with a gun and over 200 big game kills zero lost
Put a newbie behind a bow and odds are hes wounding one.
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