Mixed Emotions...
10-25-2007, 08:32 PM
#11
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Indiana
Posts: 99
RE: Mixed Emotions...
Yah i rushed my second shot and put it in her shoulder, once again, a bad decision and a bad angle, she bleated super loud and just struggled to get up. Thanks for all the support guys, i just love being out there and being so close to em, it just kinda got to me.
10-25-2007, 08:43 PM
#13
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Indiana
Posts: 99
RE: Mixed Emotions...
Yah i guess i've learned quite a bit from my experience last night. I made it a goal to take my first deer with my dads old bow, and now i have. So now im lookin at some new ones. When i called my mom to tell her i had shot a deer, she told me that my father never even shot a deer with that bow, so it made me feel good. The bow is well past its prime at about 25 to 30 years old. I have put a new sight, arrow rest and some other stuff on her. She shoots straight, i guess thats all that matters.
10-25-2007, 08:57 PM
#14
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Portage WI/Racine WI
Posts: 2,320
RE: Mixed Emotions...
I've always told people that if you don't feel at least some kind of remorse for taking a life, you shouldn't be hunting. That's just my opinion obviously. I feel we as hunters owe it to the game we pursue, to treat that life we take with some respect.
10-26-2007, 04:53 AM
#18
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Roanoke, Va
Posts: 3,562
RE: Mixed Emotions...
Congrats on your first bow kill! 
I agree that a second shot should have been in order but I'll even go farther than that. "I" would have let her get out a little farther from my tree to reduce the steep angle. Straight down or almost straight down shots should not be attemtped IMO. The odds of "spining" a deer under these conditions will increase greatly. Sure the deer will not go anywherebut I'm like you and hate seeing the deerin a paralyzed state.Just constructive critism. We've all made bad decisions but what makes a bowhunter a good bowhunteris the fact we learn from those mistakes.
I agree that a second shot should have been in order but I'll even go farther than that. "I" would have let her get out a little farther from my tree to reduce the steep angle. Straight down or almost straight down shots should not be attemtped IMO. The odds of "spining" a deer under these conditions will increase greatly. Sure the deer will not go anywherebut I'm like you and hate seeing the deerin a paralyzed state.Just constructive critism. We've all made bad decisions but what makes a bowhunter a good bowhunteris the fact we learn from those mistakes.
10-26-2007, 07:19 AM
#19
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: SOUTH Carolina--I've moved!
Posts: 2,760
RE: Mixed Emotions...
ORIGINAL: ducsauce
Congrats on your first bow kill!
I agree that a second shot should have been in order but I'll even go farther than that. "I" would have let her get out a little farther from my tree to reduce the steep angle. Straight down or almost straight down shots should not be attemtped IMO. The odds of "spining" a deer under these conditions will increase greatly. Sure the deer will not go anywherebut I'm like you and hate seeing the deerin a paralyzed state.Just constructive critism. We've all made bad decisions but what makes a bowhunter a good bowhunteris the fact we learn from those mistakes.
Congrats on your first bow kill!
I agree that a second shot should have been in order but I'll even go farther than that. "I" would have let her get out a little farther from my tree to reduce the steep angle. Straight down or almost straight down shots should not be attemtped IMO. The odds of "spining" a deer under these conditions will increase greatly. Sure the deer will not go anywherebut I'm like you and hate seeing the deerin a paralyzed state.Just constructive critism. We've all made bad decisions but what makes a bowhunter a good bowhunteris the fact we learn from those mistakes.
