Email from the hunter, Dan Perez Loggy Bayou Pro-Staffer,

Back in November I ran an arrow through the left lung of a buck I've been trying to kill for 3-years, trailed him for 400 yards and lost blood. I've since searched for him at least once every week. Believe it or not, I found him less than 60-yds from where I'd lost blood. I found him in a rip ( a drainage 60-yds long, 3-ft wide and 7-ft deep.) When fell in the rip he fell through quite a bit of brush that sprung back into place and obscured his presence. In fact we probably jumped over him at least 25 times searching for blood.

Last week when I found him, first I broke the whisper of wilderness with a long shrilling owl hoot, thanked God, called my son, called my wife and then called the conservation officer. The conservation officer met me in the woods the next morning and since my arrow was still imbedded in his ribs he gave me a regular season tag to put around his antler. He said that was a special tag that would allow me to enter this animal in the record books if chose. He said the critter has your arrow in him, he is still on your property and by the looks of the carcass you shot him during the season. Open and shut case.

Never stop looking
Dan

They say the buck cannot be entered into P&Y because of the time between shooting and recovering and because he didn't quit hunting after he lost it. Check out the thread on AT:
http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showth...ght=huge+point