Several years ago I took a shot on a doe I should have passed on. She was walking down an old atv trail that ran 30yrds front of my stand and started to veer off to the left back into the briars. She was about 40 yards and just starting to change direction. She stopped so I took the shot. Though I could still see her clearly she was just off the open part of the trail where there was some very light brush at the edge. I was still convinced I had a clear line on the shot but nicked a small branch and hit low. I got lucky and found her like 500 yards from where she was standing when hit. No snow yet and only some light blood and tissue where she was standing. Waited a couple hours then started looking in the direction she ran. After looking for a few hours of backtracking, starting over, and repeating, I finally found her laying in the root depression of a big blowdown. Definitely learned from that one.
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