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Old 10-19-2004 | 01:13 PM
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hornbow
 
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I shot another doe on Saturday. Got down and found my arrow and saw it was covered with green slime; gut shot. No blood trail at all. It was getting dark fast so I walked in a little to see if she went down in sight but no such luck. Didn't want to push her so I backed out and came back in the morning. Fortunately, it was a narrow strip of woods so I just walked up the middle and found her maybe 60 yards from where I shot her. She was still warm and had no rigor mortis so she had only just died an hour or two before I found her. Poor thing likely died of sepsis. The ground was all torn up around her from her kicking in pain. I felt terrible. No blood even on the outside of her fur though, which explained the lack of a blood trail. The arrow went through the very tip of one lobe of her liver about 4 or 5" in back of the diaphram (sp?).
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