Opening Day
Well shot a 6 point buck late Saturday but, the loud bone crushing thump was a bad sound. He buckled and ran. I heard him crash twice and snort 3 times. Then all was quiet. Gave him some time to lay down. Found deep turning imprints but no blood. Followed path he ran and found broke arrow with blood on it. 200 grain broadhead and 1 1/2 of arrow are still in him. Arrow has a good 3 1/2 inches of red blood on it. So my two options are I hit shoulder on side I was aiming at since he was slightly hunkered down eating or I hit heart and lodges arrow in opposite shoulder. Giving crashes and buckled take off. I am gonna assume the latter. Of course to make it worse it started raining immediately after I shot him. So after about 3 hours of searching in the rain I called it a night. I am going back in the morning to hopefully find rack at least. On the bright side Mother Nature will eat well tonight.