Well, selection of a piss poor broadhead would be the shooters fault I guess. Some are junk... no two ways about it. The tried and true few should be first on everyones list. We never hear repeated bad stories of Thunderheads or Muzzy etc(except Bowdacious and his latest hunt). There have been more wounding stories on the internet this year than I ever remember seeing and the season is young. Folks may be able to smoke dots, 3D animals and targets but there seems to be an awful lot of choking going on in the tree tops or people are pushing the limits of their abilities. It only takes a minute to think first, but days to get over the heart ache. I see all kinds of people tell of searching for a day or 2 for a wounded deer with several friends... well I think they' re just walking and not tracking a lot of time. Maybe the internet has given people a false sense of I' m the great white hunter, or maybe the 3D ranges have.... there seems to be a lot of floundering going on with all the buzz words used but a lot of unrecovered deer. I' m not going to say it hasn' t happened to me, but if you put an arrow in the rib cage the deer should be found a whole lot more often than not. How does that saying go about walk the walk and talk the talk and all that stuff. We need less walkin' and talkin' and more slowing down and doing.

It doesn' t make you any more a great white hunter to add your name to the shot, hit and lost list. It' s OK not to take a shot or to miss altogether. You' re just a failure which can be rectified with one clean shot the next day. Stacking up and bragging on wounded and lost figures puts you on the list of Blooming Yahoo Failures.