I'm feeling the pain right now of not finding my buck. This is the second year in a row for me. Each year I took a doe as well with awesome bone snapping passthroughs. Both bucks were standing, fully broadside, inside of 30 yards and I never got a pass through on either one. I want to know why I didn't get a pass through, so I can learn from it. I'm not done looking for this years buck, but rain ruined all of my tracking efforts. As I stated in my original post I will quit hunting for the rest of the season if I do not find this buck. IMO.It isn't fair to the deer or the other hunters in the woods for me to shoot another one without recovering the first.
I've had to help track, never to find many bucks shot by gun hunters. All in all I would say that bowhunters as a whole care much more about finding their buck than do gun hunters based on the extra amount of time and effort needed to harvest one and that we understand that it is very unusual for a deer to just drop in its tracks. Thus