RE: SAD LOSS, Found wounded BUCK
 

As long as itwas agood shot gone bad and the shooter feels poorly then such is life. Major Bummer though.

RE: SAD LOSS, Found wounded BUCK
 

I agree. We sure don't know the story on this deer. Anybody that has taken more than 30 deer know, bad things can happen. It makes you sick. I know in my life, I have been up all night thinking about a bad hit a deer. It happens. Can't say I ever screwed up a shot this bad. But I sure won't say it can't happen. I have hit twigs and branches and watched an arrow that was going straight to the vitals head right into the hinds. Dropped on the spot, but not my prefered hit.

RE: SAD LOSS, Found wounded BUCK
 

That is a shame. Hopefully it was just a bad shot and not intentionally hit there, but that is a pretty bad miss.

RE: SAD LOSS, Found wounded BUCK
 

I still can't believe some of you guys are getting pissed at the shooter, just ASSUMING that he meant to hit the deer in the neck.

RE: SAD LOSS, Found wounded BUCK
 

If the loser had been using a rage 2 blade none of us would be having this discussion.

RE: SAD LOSS, Found wounded BUCK
 

very sad

RE: SAD LOSS, Found wounded BUCK
 

We're not the ethics police right??? As long as it is legal we shouldn't question what other hunters do, right???

RE: SAD LOSS, Found wounded BUCK
 

Looks good shots go bad, but look at the angle. And we're not the ethics police, but we do have to say something is wrong when it's wrong. It takes 1000 good things hunter do to erase one bad thing. In the eye's of most of the public,a shot like that is what gets the anti-hunters ammo to come after hunters. It's hard enough to win over a land owner so you can hunt their land, without things like this. Now am I saying that this just wasn't a good shot gone bad, .....,...no. But why would you take a shot like that?

RE: SAD LOSS, Found wounded BUCK
 

I understand badass. I just want to make sure that everyone understands that "as long as it is legal it is ok" should either apply to all situations or none, and that we should be allowed and concerned with applying an ethical standard tohunting situations that may exceed what the law allows. Canned hunting, high fence, unethical shots, etc. If there is a standard above what is legal then obviously that standard applies everywhere.

RE: SAD LOSS, Found wounded BUCK
 

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