People are trying to tell you in not so many words that you made a very bad decision to shoot. You were motivated to achieve your own goals instead of thinking of the best interest of the game that you were taking.

The people that have "flamed" you are trying to make you a better, more ethical hunter. Take it for what it's worth.

Tom

Did it make the sound of an allerted deer that has spotted you in your treestand? What was the tail doing when it was circling you? Was the arrow found? If it was did it appear on track as if you missed?

Sounds like a cut windpipe, not much there to bleed. Hopefully somebody takes him before old man winter does. Broadside or quartering away, to my mind, are the only shots to take. Live and learn. Bummer situation any way you look at it.

I am not going to comment on your shot selection. Live and learn on that one.

I posted about a doe I shot recently and ended up being lucky.
My deer was quartering away and the shot went a little high. It looked to be dead on. I was hunting from the ground and ended up shooting her in the neck. I found the arrow but it did have blood on it. She ran like the dickens and I didn't find blood for about 70 yards I think and then just a drop. I kept trailing her and finally found more about 20-30 yards further. I could hear her gurgling and coughing further in and waited for awhile. I ended up finding her another 30 yards away.

My point is ....... you very well may have neck shot it but the absence of blood or anything puzzles me. May have deflected off the neck and just karate chopped it in the throat causing it to try and catch his breath. Who knows.

Good luck in the future.

Your hunting NYS lol??

The only question I have is When he was standing out there and walking in a twenty foot circle for five minutes why didn't you renock an send a better shot on the way when he was broadside? Alot of times a deer will bolt about twenty yards and stop after being shot. I always renock and have one ready for just that reason. I bet I have put a second arrow in a dozen deer over the years. Just food for thought. Chris

Well ive had some pretty weird occurences but ive at least found alittle blood, But you'd think there would be at least hair even if you just grazed his neck .
I dont know about this one

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Sounds like you nicked the windpipe which isn't too far under the skin in the throut area.The deer will be very uncomfortable if that is the case.

Wind pipe - or nose maybe even.

I don't understand the "wobbling legs" more than the lack of blood though.

Weird for sure.

FH

Well found my the deer this morning, alive and kicking about 80 yards from where I took the shot. He looked fine and was just grazing until something spooked him and he took of.I have done some research and it seems to me that the noise i heard was definitely an alert to other deer in thearea.I found a website where a hunter hadbeen busted bya doe and it made a very similiar noise. I went shooting last night to resight my bow and found that my mid range pin was slightly loosened and had moved. All my shots were low.

BTW. I never took a second shot because I figured he was hit and I was waiting for him to drop. I did not want to push him out of the field and into the woods and by that time it was laready past legal shooting light. Anyway I got a nice look at him. I know it is the same deer because he has a really cool tall rack. Probably about 10 inch spread but g2 and g3 are like 9 - 10 inches. I will continue to persue him as well as the other 11 point brute that I have seen.

I have given much thought to what many of you have said and that maty not have been thebest shot to take butprobably not as bad as many of you believe. Either way, lesson learned and both hunter and animal will be better off the next time.

Thanks