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Own a freakin flashlight?

After all of these posts about lost deer and going back in the morning, I got to thinking about the deer I have shot and lost (4 in all). I looked for each of them until the wee hours of the morning with flashlights. I have found many deer bloodtrailing with my flashlight but have never gone back the next morning and found the deer after exhausting the search the night before.

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Spent all their money bows and bullets I guess.[:o] Fraid of the dark perhaps?:D

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Some deer need to be left until the next morning.........gut shot deer for example.

But the others need to tracked until found, I agree.


Best way not to need a flashlight to track with.................just shoot em in the morning, you have a ll day if you need it.

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or shoot em in the neck:D

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Oh no![:o] I sure hope we aren' t going to get into another neck shot debate[X(]

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Heard this one didn' t travel far.

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Ok , everyone forget that someone said anything about a neck shot.

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that' s a whole ' nuther story;)

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ha was you aiming there????

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Is that an optical illusion? That looks like one freaking long arrow.

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After the last fiasco, I bought a 3M candle recharchable light. With the extra ports on that thing, I could start a car [8D]

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I' ve shot a lot of evening deer. Yep, own lots of flash lights. Recovered a lot of deer. Some at night, some the next morning. One, the coyotes got. In a perfect world, every shot would be at 15 yards, a double lunger with a complete pass through. The critter would go about 20 steps and crash.[:-] In reality, folks get excited, critters move or jump the string, a branch or whatnot deflects your arrow, or whatever and you have to trail them. Sometimes pushing an animal that taken a marginal hit will only push him into the next zip code. Let him relax and lay up, and you' ll find him the next morning.:D

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I totally agree.:D

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We cantall be perfect!!!!!!!

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long arrow or small deer?

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if thats the same picture i think it is its just a small deer, i remember readin the stroy with it

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Sorry guys, I don' t have any info other than the pic.

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If you are gonna track after dark a double mantle propane lantern works better than anything I' ve found so far. It is a little more ungainly than handling a flashlight but works pretty good when hung in a tree for illuminating your gutting area. The light from a propane lantern also seems to help illuminate a larger area at once so you can see the differences between the false red spots on the leaves and the real blood.
I ususally carry a lantern in one hand but have a 3-4 cell maglite in it' s holster. If I need more than the lantern I break out the maglite to help.

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Another great pic nub, thanks

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The arrows not long, the deer appears small. You can almost see the spots on it.:) Or is that a WV deer???:D
It also appears that it is shot from below or had its head turn up and twisted as if feeding off a overhead branch or some such thing?????