RE: Just out of curiousity how many of you have ..... ?
 

I shot a 7 pointer about this time last year with my bow setup he jumped a hair of a second before I hit the release but brain couldn' t stop the shot. Caught the deer in his right hind leg. Muzzy 3 blade cut artery and the buck ran off and of course it was just at dusk. My partner and I hunted all night following the blood trails til it ran dry. We did a grid search, shoulder to shoulder, walked in circles we did everything that we knew to do and still couldn' t find the buck. It made me really sick at heart that I had wounded an animal and could not finish the job. My partner doing a preseason scout this past August found the 7 pointer about 200 yds below my stand in a clump of black berry bushes right on the edge of a creek bank. I still feel really bad about not finding him that night but I do take solace that he did go down within a reasonable distance and from the position of the skeleton which ironically had not even been disturbed by coyotes it appears that the buck just simply ran out of fluid in his radiator and laid down. Long and short of it is that I learned a very hard lesson from that and it is a mistake that I do my very best not to make ever again.

RE: Just out of curiousity how many of you have ..... ?
 

Just so you guys know, I have been hunting for 8 years, 5 with bow. I have killed a total of around 15 deer or so.

Like I said, I am not perfect, but, I will not apologize for these mistakes. Yes, I feel bad about them, but, I learned from them and I have moved on.

Just so everyone knows, I have no problem with CharlieP here. He has his opinion and I have mine. Personally, I would be willing to bet that he is a great guy, and the reason he ribs me is the reason I have got ribbed before, they want to help me learn. Anytime he was ever in PA and wanted to hunt, my land would be open!