Lazyarcher great point about listening as well as watching for the animal. Look with your ears so to speak.

Nic Excellent, I like to refer to that as picking a hair. Don't just be satisfied at hitting the vital area, pick a hair and nail that hair and you'll have an easy time of the recovering, more time for quality pictures....but that's another post.

Sisk that brings up a good lesson for us all. Your right, many times the animal doesn't know it's hit and really doesn't know what happened. Take the buck in my post above. After running off from the initial noise and whack....he stopped and was looking back over his trail wondering what happened, I softly grunted and estrous doe bleated to calm him. This is when he entered the woods and layed down. Had I made alot of noise, movement, I might of spooked him farther off......thanks for bringing up that point.

Cloud 9 waiting is the name of the game and more successful recoveries are because the hunter waited the appropriate amount of time. Time is our friend after the shot.

Matt thank you for the H.R.A.O.P., I'll have to bring that around again. All great points. Are you going to post the quality picture topic or should I. I, like you find it to be very important.

Moosehead that is a very interesting thought on marking the departure site with an extra arrow. Everything does look different once on the ground.

Rad Your right, follow through is an important part of the shot execution. Peeking too soon can throw off the shot. Make it count and then look and watch and listen.

JayCrayford That is sound advice and simply put....Slow Down.



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Edited by - Rob/PA Bowyer on 09/04/2002 08:24:38