Originally Posted by
Mr. Deer Hunter
I think that someone here does not have a lot of experience hunting deer and wants us to look into our crystal balls and tell him where that deer is at and if he killed it or not.
My guess is that if he got it, he should have stayed in that spot for a hour and then went to look for it. If it was hit in the lungs - it might go 300 yards max.
If you hit it in the guts - it will probably suffer a long slow death.
That is the one thing that I hate about archery hunting, those guys with stick n string that goes out and wounds a bunch of nice deer.
Then when rifle season rolls around, you find nice bucks laying dead in some old grapevines - where no one thought of looking for him.
Or shooting a nice trophy buck and when you go to gut him out, he is all full of puss from a arrow that has been sticking in his guts for the past 4 weeks.
Where I live at, my opinion is that they ought to put archery season after rifle season.
It has nothing to do with hunting with a bow and arrow, it is just as effective as a rifle at close range if you put it where it needs to be..I've seen many deer lost during the firearm season because of poor shot placement..Found dead deer with slug holes in them, and I can honestly say I have never found one with an arrow in them (not saying that doesn't happen), but it goes both ways
