Why do you want everyone to bash you?? What good will it do? You already KNEW it was wrong when you did it and that didn' t stop you.

How do you think the deer feels?


If you hunt long enough it will happen.............the shame about this story is a little patience on your part would have prevented it.

Also..........a lost animal is a lost animal. The size of the horns on it' s head doesn' t make it any more or less tragic. If you had lost a doe you should feel the same way.

I know you don' t care about what I am saying so I will stop wasting my time now

I think some people just need to talk about things, some more then others I guess. Personally, I don' t see anything wrong with sharing something like this. Hopefully, it will teach someone something. I didn' t see anyone bragging. I got the impression that slice is feeling very badly about it.

Yes, this shot is possible, however, it is very, very low percentage, and should not be tried. There is substantial bone to get through before you get to the heart. Deflection, and penetration are real problems with trying to get to the heart with this type of shot.

Slice, on the other side of this, if the arrow did not hit anything else besides the one lung, there is a chance that the deer can survive this hit.

As mentioned....bad angle. You should have waited
for a better shot and/or have let him walk if the
right shot didn' t present itself.

A grid search with as many people as you could get
together, would have been a good choice for locating
your buck, including the grass field.

You start a thread about your poor shot and invite people to " Let you have it" and now you are upset??

LOL

Calling someone on a stupid, poor shot that was made by a hunter who obviously KNEW it was marginal at best is not High and Mighty.

Maybe you will learn something from this and not take a shot like that in the future................and if not, at least try not to sound like you are bragging about taking a poor shot when you KNOW it was a poor shot.

slicendice some may be playing high & mighty, but the point they are trying to make is that you should have let him walk rather than taking the shot you took. I do not doubt that you got lucky and hit the heart on a shot like that once, heck I spined a doe and dropped her like a ton of lead bricks, but you can bet your sweet bippy I would never try for the spine. We all make mistakes and learn from them, you got lucky the first time you tried this shot and as a result you figured if it worked before it will work again. The results have proven that this was a low percentage shot. This to me does not sound real good, if you saw no blood and the arrow was a pass through at that angle you would have had blood considering the exit was almost right out the bottom of the deer.

A brain shot is possible from almost ANY angle.............That doesn' t make it a good idea.


Why would anyone shoot at a deer that is right under your stand?? It has to leave in some direction right?? Wait for it to wander out 10 yards and take a quartering away or broadside shot. It is very unlikely that a deer that is right under your stand will be able to escape without presenting a shot opportunity better then what you described........and if he does...........Oh well, that' s why they call it hunting and not killing.

Hopefully, maybe someone out there reads this post and decides to let ' em walk next time, when presented with a low percentage shot. I think learning from other' s mistakes is a whole lot easier than learning from one' s own.

How long have you been hunting and how many have you hit ?

OK, I' ll second the notion it' s a poor percentage shot. Two, you have to aim back more than just behind the sholuder blades to get the biggest kill area. Besides confirming it' s a bad shot I' d like to give you or anyone else a little hint about a deer like this. It may be true he' s a little nervous or up tight, but with each passing moment of nothing happening he will usually get a little calmer. Even if he decides it' s not right and decides to leave, he will, 99 times out of 100, offer you several opportunities as he leaves. Unless he pinpoints the danager he' s just going to slink back where he came from or high step... but not run. Yup, you should have waited. A smart hunter will learn from his mistakes. You haven' t yet as obvious by your decision to take the shot even though you knew it wasn' t the best. A lost dead deer will never be anything else. Even if you choose to wait for a better shot that never happens you at least have the chance for another opportunity another day. A one lunger always has the possibility of a lost deer. A double lunger is always a dead deer you can find. If you take a shot that may or will give you a one lunger cuts your odds in half. It just isn' t worth it over the long haul. It may get you a deer now and then, but you' re going to loose some... and probably the ones you loose are the best, biggest and strongest. YUP, the weather man sure did screw up in a major way. I too sat in a Md tree getting soaked Saturday. We choose to hunt the morning and not the afternoon.... and of course the afternoon was beautiful. Sorry about your lost deer.... it' s one more that will never get a chance to come by MY TREE.[:' (]

P.S. Don' t feel like we' re picking on you. I' ll be the first one to criticise my own failures and point out bad shots to the guys I hunt with all the time. It' s real easy to get a little cocky with ourselves and take a low percentage shot when we' ve had a string of successes... I' ve done it my self.

I think some of you guys should take a look at another topic where folks believe that this type of shot is a high percentage shot.


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