The last deer I didn’t recover was hit just a bit behind and above the entry hole on this doe I killed a couple weeks ago. The buck showed back up on camera 3 days later on the same food plot. I pondered every scenario I could come up with and finally decided the only viable explanation was that I shot over the spine. This doe above pretty much confirmed those thoughts because the doe above is spine shot.
You can see by the angle of the shaft the deer was slightly quartered too so I held tight to the front end. You can clearly see by the first pic the shot was not high. When she reacted to the shot her chest dropped between her shoulders and front legs resulting in a shot that looked about perfect but wasn’t. This season is my 40th bowhunting and I still learn new stuff about every hunt. I normally trust my eyes on shots, especially when I feel the shot was executed well on a relaxed deer. Bottom line though is your eyes will deceive you sometimes and sometimes your eyes are correct but we just don’t fully understand or appreciate all that can happen with a deers body when a shot is released.
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