Shotgun season. I was sitting on the ground at the base of a tree and had a doe and a fawn come across a field and enter the woods about 50 yards away. I missed the doe (found where the slug hit a tree) but both deer never ran and didn' t even appear to be spooked. After milling around and feeding for a few minutes the fawn stepped into an opening and I dropped her with one shot. The doe ran about 20 yards towards me and then stopped to look back at her fawn. After watching her fawn she turned and continued to walk towards me. When she was about 10 yards away I noticed blood on her muzzle and a blood spot on her lower belly. Even though in Ohio you are supposed to have attached a tag to the first deer before shooting your second I couldn' t knowingly let her walk away wounded even though I knew that I hadn' t shot her. So after she passed by me at about 10 feet I swung my gun around and put her down. I tagged both deer and was home by noon.

As I was dragging the deer out I checked their tracks where they had crossed the field and found a few drops of blood in the snow from the doe which further verified my thought that I had not hit her with the first shot.