I should tell the story behind this. I shot the buck, spine shot [never do it again]
it ran off so I waited about ahalf hr before trailing it, I followed it about a 100 yrds
and then backed off deciding to come back in the morning. Myself and two kids got
on the blood trail the next moring, we followed it about another 150 yrds making
it about 250 yrds from my stand we ran out of blood and tracks and no arrow
yet. we did a 150 yrd circle search around the last blood nothing. Well I gun hunt
the same area, while walking some of the fire lanes I ran into a young guy and we started talking about his group and how they were doing, he was telling me that they only got a small buck and a few does. Then he said he found a 6 pt buck on a drive earlier that day and he thought it must of got hit by acar because it has been there for awhile. I asked him to show it to me, sure enough it was my buck
there was a 4 blade broadhead hole 1 inch to the left of the spine. I back tracked from the deer to the last spot of blood area, I found the arrow 50 yrds from the deer the deer was 250 yrds from the last blood trail area. Do I claim the buck?
My arrow killed him, I got the horns, the rearend was eaten and the meat was
no good which is a sad thing.