Well although I lost my bow, we still had a pretty decent trip. All three of the guys that had their bows killed deer.

This pic is a buck that was shot around 7am opening morning. It was a pretty hard quartering away shot and my buddy only got one lung. We waited for a long time then trailed him about 300 yards where we found him piled up.

The buck on the left in this picture is a different deer that the guy holding the head shot around 7:30am. He made a very poor shot on this deer (about 7 inches below the spine just behind the rib cage)but we made the correct decision in letting him go. I insisted that we wait at least 10 hours before attempting to find him. I also told them that he was going to water. The property that we hunt has a decent size river running through it. So after 10 hours, we began the search, one person on each side of the river walking upwind. My buddy spotted him on my side of the river just up ahead. He was still alive bedded down, so we backed out. Trey and I put on our leafy wear and began the stock. At fifteen yards he put another arrow in the lungs and that was that.

If anything can be learned from this, "IF YOU MAKE A POOR SHOT, BACK OUT AND COME BACK LATER!!!!!"

Sounds like 2 poor shots saved by some calm and smart follow up.


Thankfully you knew what to do and had the willpower to stick to it.


Congrats on recovering both deer.


Sorry about your bow.......that sucks something awful.

Congrates

Congratulations to some smart hunters!

Schweet!

Congratulations. How did you loose your bow?

Nice deer, good job taking your time and recoving the deer. Sorry to hear that you lost your bow.

Congratulations to them. Those are some very nice bucks and some smart thinking on your part.

Congrats indeed. Sounds like experience really paid off on these hunts.