9 1/2 hrs. and someone stoled her
 

last night i set up an ambush for a buck i have been seeing but he was to smart for me this time but ten minutes later i stuck a doe. it was a low shot, thought i had missed. waited 15 min got down went to find my arrow and there was a very faint tint of red on it and white hair on the ground. i figured i graised the brisket so i went and found blood within 20 yards bright red and a lot of it. so i went back packed up my stuf went to the truck and waited an hour (normal routeen) so to make a long story short awsome blood trail hardly had to bend over there was so much bright red blood every where. i am starting to think a heart shot. but i tracked it 3 tenth of a mile so the gps said and lost the blood. so i went home and this morning i went back took about 1 houre to get back on her. the last 50 yards i was on my hands, knees, and belly going through the thickest briar patch ever and expecting to find her at any moment. well the trail ended in a big and i mean big patch of blood along a creek ( sm. river) i circled the area 4 times and no more blood so i go back to the blood patch and i notice 2 foot from where she was laying there was evidence of where a jon boat had recently parked and 20 yards away across the creek was a jon boat. the doe would of been easily seen from there back door. so after 8 years of bowhunting i have lost my first deer and i am pisssseeeedddd. so i do one more loop around and find nothing not a drip. so i tell the gps to take me home it says 1/2 mile as a bird flies. and 9 1/2 houres later i am going home empty handed at least the deer is not being wasted. boy i wish i had a way across the creek or even knew how to get to that houes.

RE: 9 1/2 hrs. and someone stoled her
 

jimmy I understand you being POed, but I will be honest and say that I may have taken your deer if I was in that land owners place, I would hate to see her go to waste, however I would have left a note, just in case it was an ethical hunter like you who was trying to finish what he started. I understand the frustration of getting your first bow kill and then losing it to someone else, I just killed my first with a bow yesterday after 3 seasons bow hunting.

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club

RE: 9 1/2 hrs. and someone stoled her
 

ya Taz you had a pretty good storie just read it.
it was not my first bow kill it was the first deer i did not bring home. that is why i am bummen. i would of at least liked to know where i hit her man there was a lot of blood



Edited by - jimmya on 11/02/2002 17:40:38

RE: 9 1/2 hrs. and someone stoled her
 

A few years ago I shot a big 10 pointer right at dark.I new the shot was good but could have only caught one lung do to the angle.I decide to wait and get the deer in the morning.A friend and I returned to my uncles farm and found the blood trail right away.He followed it for about 80 yards and you could see where the deer fell and rolled down a hill to a fence.The fence could not have been more than 16 inches high and the buck crawled under it.Than no more blood nothing.We looked all day and never found another drop.I found out a week or so later that a friend of my cousins was coon hunting and found and took the deer.What really ticks me off was my cousin even said he figured it was my deer being I was the only person that bowhunted on the farm. So I know how you feel.