I got my son up at 4:00 am this morning and took him out into the woods to bow hunt.Found the perfect place for his stand which I have watched deer cross every day.My son is 12 and is a very competant shot out to 25 yards.
Well after I get him set up I move to my stand about a hundred yards away but could still see him my neighbor (the one that ruined my hunting last year)Showed up and put his stand 15 yards from my son (this hobo is 25 years old and dumb as a box of rocks).
It' s 7:00am and beginning to get light enough to shoot and the deer start to make thier rounds and my son saw the deer and stupidly pointed out to the guy who swung around and shot an arrow going under the deer.The buck a 3 point jumped and ran about 5 yards and stopped to investigate he and two other deer started towards my son. Before my son could get a shot off, the guy shot again and wounded one of the 3 point bucks.It ran straight in my direction and stopped under a tree I was in and immediatly the guy jumped out of his stand and began stomping around looking for both his arrows.
I told my son on the radio to tell him to sit still and in 30 minutes I would come help him track the deer.Mainly because he scared it into running further.After about 45 minutes I went and got him and began to ttrack it.What hacked me off was everytime I would find a spot of blood he would run ahead of me trying to see the deer and wiped blood off the leaves and onto his clothing .
After about three times of this I said he needed to get someone else to help him because he was making it to difficult to follow the trails.I helped him for 2 hours and them he got two other guys to help him in which he did the same to them until they gave up.
The trail was followed over 300 yards with him still swearing it was a lung shot.I saw only bright red blood and no bubbles.I figured he hit him in the brisket.I figured he looked for a total of 4 hours and gave up.
Saw him leaving the woods tonight and asked if he found any more blood and he said " Aw he' ll feed the coyotes because he won' t be found but Im gonna get the other one tomorrow" .I then told him that if I was' nt going to look no harder than that I dang shure would' nt try and shoot another.He thought that was funny I guess .got in his truck and said tomorrow.
People like this I dont mind helping out but when they dont want to work for it then stay home and let us more responsible hunters have the woods to ourselves.
lesson to the new hunters,If someone has a little experiance and offer there assistance set back and learn.I know the excitment is overwelming but thats when experiance comes in handy and you might even learn something.