Went back out this morning and picked up where I had left off. After taking a few steps along the trail, two coyotes took off from a fence frow about 70 yards away. I went straight there and found my doe, or what was left or her. They pretty much had her picked clean.

I couldn't really tell where the shot hit her. From the looks of the hide it was foward and went through the shoulder blade on the right side, but I couldn't tell where it had exited. Where she laid was about 200 yards from where she had been shot.

This is the second deer in two years that I've lost to the yotes. Last year I waited till morning before I did any tracking. This year I waited a few hours then attempted to track her. But I feel I made the right decision back backing out aftering finding where she had bedded. The blood was fresh where I found the bed. I didn't want to continue on and jump her. She could have went on all night then. It just make me feel awful to know that the meat went to waste instead of in my freezer.