i was in my lil ol stand about 7-8 feet off the ground , i had a deer come in about 13 yds....i told myself, stop him right there and shoot,pick your spot and shoot, i even had time to ask myself if my form was right, bend my elbow , and make sure i had the right pin........perfect hunt...had time to do everything right, and i took that time, nothing was rushed.....i thought he went one way, so i looked for my arrow, in water and it had some green stomache looking matter on it, noooooooooooooo blood, we looked, nothing after awhile gave up, then fl got there and found the first sign of blood......man , if you would of seen the blood, youd think he would be right there....bright red,not watery, no gut stuff in it, just beautiful red blood.then it stopped, litterally,we looked for a few hours and then i decided to go get fl's hound...she found the blood, then out in the opening , there was one spec, so i told her to find the deer, she took me through the thickest nastiest palmetto's youve ever seen, at a high rate of speed i might add, lol.......we spooked it........i could never see it because it was so thick, but i got to where i thought it was layin'and there it was one drop of blood, about 60 yds from the first one ellie found...nothing that we saw in the middle of the two blood spots, so i went after it thinking it was up and running, blood will spurt out, but nothing, so i opted to back out because of the lack of blood after the intial blood trail, which was good.........i figured it wasnt wounded enough to die so i wouldnt make things worse by looking for it....this was about 4 :30, it happened around 8:00, waited til 9:30ish to go look, but it was a couple of hours before we found the blood and actually went looking in the right direction....it was like 8 hours and still alive...and no blood where it bedded down..do you think i should of kept after it, or let it go like i did....
when i took the shot i swear i was calm, confident and i didnt rush, i had a blk. line right behind the shoulder blade i was focused on , i knew had hit him by his reaction but i didnt see where, i actually thought it was close to the heart, obviously i was wrong....
there was a small myrtle in front of the deer i guess i just saw through it when i found my spot, thinking either the fletching caught it and bounced, or i just suck, lol........but it was the pefect everything...i saw a deer , i decided not to look for antlers just in case, i shot it thinking it was a real nice mature doe, but when it took off , i thought i saw a fork horn...so it could be a lil buck or a doe....i busted my rear end looking for it and when found it,i didnt think it would be alive but it was and it was too thick for me to see what it was......what happened? i feel it'll live and most everyone else thinks that too, but one person doesnt so now i have to wonder if i did the right thing....i am so disapointed and i cant for the life of me understand what happened to the shot and to the blood trail that was so good for about 20-25 yards, then 2 single drops in an 80 yard or better stratch....please help me understand.........