hokiehunter373
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Hoping we've got an update coming in a couple hours
I appreciate your opinion, but my hope is to get another shot in him. it's raining here and he ran up a 20-30acre finger that's about a 1/4mile long that has bedding, food and water. I got no movement on any cams today. I got from 12pm tomorrow until Sunday night to slowly work up it. if he's dead I can zig zag on my way out each day and find him. I'll have some high quality dog food ingredients and the head. but if he's alive I have a chance to finish it. running a dog up it might yield me a dead deer, but it will push him somewhere I can't find him again. there are big deer all over the place but this 1 is 1 I want to tag out on, and my best chance is to go slowWith all due respect, lots of ridiculous assumptions going on in this post and apparently the original. Did you actually let the dog track him? If the deers dead, he ain’t going anywhere, and the dog finds him. If he’s not dead, who cares about blowing him out, you owe it to the animal to do what you can to find him, make a follow up, or conclude he’s healthy. You worry about the rest after. If you initially assumed his guts were hanging out but now think it was nothing close to that why would you think you could pinpoint where he died at? Deer make all kinds of decisions we don’t understand. He could have been bumped by coyotes or even another buck this time of year and went somewhere else. People like to think deer go to water or the path of least resistance after poor shots and that’s not always true. You’ve got a dog available, use it and figure out what happened.
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It sounds like an interesting situation you found your self in. Please provide the full story so others can learn from it. Being caught a full draw has happened to many bowhunters. Don't beat yourself up too bad.25ft up and monster at under 10 ft. been holding full draw and was at my limit. now I got a beautiful animal running around with his guts hanging out that might be dead tomorrow with about a 25% chance of being found. guys don't hunt with a butthole, especially when you're by yourself.
wow thats a shame.Well I was wrong. Was convinced I shot over him and raked his side, and that he was pushed up in that finger but still alive. My arrow being dry with just a 3inch film of fat on 1 side threw me off. apparently I must of hit him pretty good. shot him at 8am 2 days ago and found (well dog did) him at 11am today, so 50hrs later. this is what was left
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yeah gonna try to have a setup next yearIncredible story. Makes me want to film my hunts so I'll know for sure where the deer was shot. Crazy how much practice and training I do personally, almost all of it is forgotten when I shoot a deer.
yeah I'm tagged out in NC, but bought an SC license a minute ago (I'm 5min from the line)thanks for sharing, glad you found him even if it wasn't the way we were all hoping. did you shoot your other antlered deer for the season yet or no?