Hey strut, I feel your pain man, Sat 12-04 I missed the lost the biggest buck of my life. Like you a seventy fie yrd shot. Got hair, blood 40 yards later and bam then nothing. We tracked him for 2 mile and nothing, he was well over 200lbs and lost count after 10 so I FEEL YOU PAIN BRO

hey strut i had the same problem this year but i saw it was a clear miss i had missed a nice 10 ptr like the one in your pic with a bow..... talk about a grown man cry

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Thanks Y'all, I wish I could have found him earlier but I guess the yotes are hungary too. I had made a pretty good shot, Right thru the middle of the ribs, It did'nt exit and I guess thats the reason he did'nt leave much of a blood trail. I had just about wrote him off for a clean miss when I happened to stumble up on him. I was one happy camper when I saw him, I had hunted him all bow season, and firearms season, I thought he was gone by the time our firearm season was over cause I had not got any pictures of him in over a month, then the last day of our firearm season I got his pic again, so that fired me up for our ML season which opened in a couple days, I knew he was still around, I let several smaller bucks pass during the season and held out for the one I wanted and it finally paid off, I have had to eat tag soup several times in the past for holding off, but this is one year that I'm glad I did.

No shame in that. Nice buck!

WooHoo! Ya' got eem!

Grats Strut!

Glad you found him. That stinks about the yotes, he sure is a beautiful buck.

Congratulations, that is a fantastic deer. Do you know how old he was?

congrats on finding him. nice looking buck.

No not for sure, some of the guys that has looked at him has guessed him at 3 and 1/2 but I don't know if they know any more about it than I do LOL.