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My second of the year

Jeremy Holden

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Northeast IL
Early season in WI I wounded a doe. I was sitting on the ground and didn't account for the limb tips of my longbow. At the shot the bottom limb tip struck the tree next to me and the arrow hit her in the neck. I immediately backed out and came back the next morning. Found blood and then lost it shortly there after. Looked for 4 hours for her. The drive home was miserable.

Today was my second saddle sit, felt great! At about 0730 I shot a buck who walked right to me. Couldn't have been better. Well, this time I'm not sure what happened other than me not doing my part. I shot and hit the buck in the right front shoulder. The arrow stuck and he turned and ran. After a few bounds the arrow fell out. When I got down to inspect the arrow I found everything intact except for the tip, maybe an 1/4", of the single bevel broad head. Again, found blood and followed him into a swamp. At that point I lost blood. My son and I grid searched that swamp and came up wet and muddy.

So, I'm done for the season. I've tagged out in my opinion and will wait until next season. I will be back, but after much more practice.
 
I shot an 8-point one year in the shoulder with a rage Broadhead and a completely bent the tip of the Broadhead. I had about an inch and a half of penetration into the muscle of the front shoulder. I felt horrible. It couldn't hardly sleep. At the time I was using game cameras and about a week later he showed back up with a wound on the shoulder, just fine. These animals are tough even a neck shot that didn't cut an artery they can survive. Don't give up. If you didn't hang a tag on an animal you still got two tags as far as I'm concerned. No matter how much you practice it's not going to make you ready to shoot a live animal. I just started shooting a recurve this year and at 15 yards I'm good. I put a bad shot on hog(moving target) and a bad shot on a spike this year at 10 yards. The Earth reabsorbs all that it produces. Nothing goes to waste, don't let it let it get you down too bad.

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Seen a few broadheads, buckshot, and bird shot in deer over the years when cleaning them. They can handle a lot. It always sucks to make an animal suffer but he could become a beautiful non typical next year. Lol
 
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