I found my doe this morning fellows!! I'm as happy as a pig in s%&t!! All the details are on the "bowhunting" forum so I don't have to do all that typing again. Thanks for all the helpful advice and encouragement guys. It really helped!

Cool, great job on the recovery, glad you found her.


Mitch

congrats on your find,bet it was a long night,again great job![8D]

Some how early in, I knew you were going to find her. You had the right attitude and you knew better what to do. Congratutlations, you deserve it!

I read your post already and all I can say is great job!I am glad you found her and she did not run far also. What you did is the key, not pushing her! Congrats on your kill!!!

Thank again guys, all I can say is I learned more on how to deal with a less than perfectly hit deer this time. Judging by the stomach fluid and lack of blood on my arrow, I had no idea that I actually got one lung. Until I found that blood where I last saw her leave my sight, I would have thought that I had gotten only a gut shot.
She had gone about 70 yrds before shestarted to bleed, I've heard stomach material can actually help seal up a wound. I'm always learning new things with this sport we call deer hunting. I do love it!

super job bro....very happy for you.

I found her! I went in this morning at first light and started where I last saw her yesterday evening. To my amazement I found some blood! Not alot but enough to get me started in the direction she traveled. I was on my hands and knees at times following through briars and mile a minute. Then the blood stopped![&o]But the route she was on was leading down hill towards the little creek I mentioned yesterday.
I had to go through some thick stuff to access the creek and there she lay right on the creek embankment! Right on!!! I was soooo happy I recovered her and it only took a little more than an hour. She only really went about 100yrds. The trick was leaving the woods after I saw that arrow with no blood on it and realized I hit her in the gut!
As it turned out my shot hit her center body and angled forward and through one lung, hence the minimal blood lose. I had heard that a gut shot can leave no blood evidence on the arrow even though it hits something major like a lung. When I gutted her there was steam coming from her insides. The meat will be fine!
I want to thank all of you guys for your advice and confident replys reguarding this bad shot. I sure hope it doesn't happen again any time soon. But like a couple guys said, this is hunting and I LOVE it.
Again, thanks for all the support!!!

Glad to hear that you didn't lose it!

Grats Early, you did good following some good advice on tracking right away, or I should say not tracking right away.