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need some perking up!! - 11/6/2009 11:16:48 PM
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burnnurse1
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Managed to squeeze in an evening hunt today. Had been on stand about hour and a half when I had to big does come out about 50 yds. Had already planned on taking a doe for the freezer so this was setting up perfect. Got turned around, picked out the bigger of the 2 and squeezed. Both deer take off. Get down to go find my deer and find nothing but gray hair on the ground. No blood, bone nothing. At that point I get that sinking feeling in my gut. After thorough search for blood to no avail, I take out walking a grid covering a lot of ground, and find nothing. At this point I'm really getting down on myself because now not only have I just whiffed on a 50 yd shot, but now I got a wounded animal that I can't find. Now I've missed before, but haven't wounded one and not found it since I was a kid. Right now the feeling I have about a wounded animal out there is just making me sick. As much as I hate to think about it , the deer looked hurt when it ran off. But I shoot a 300 win mag so I figured that if I hit anything with any mass I should have got more than just hair. I don't know, but right now I'm really down on myself. I have noone to blame but myself because gun was dead on (shot it when got back to camp). I guess the shot was just "too easy" and I pulled it. Anyway pretty bummed right now!!
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RE: need some perking up!! - 11/6/2009 11:44:30 PM
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jrobinson91
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I did something similar a couple of years ago. I shot a doe with my shot gun. Using slugs. I know i hit her because she was only 40-50 yards away and she mule kicked and stumbled pretty good when she started to run. I gave her about 15 minutes before i got out of my stand. I found some hair and like 2 drops of blood on the ground. We searched the area for about an hour or so with no such luck. The owner of the hunt club was doing some work in a field the following summer that was about 30 yards from where i shot the doe and found a skeleton of a doe laying in some THICK stuff. WE WALKED RIGHT OVER HER!!! It still bothers me to this day.
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RE: need some perking up!! - 11/7/2009 8:08:58 AM
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timeinandout
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Same thing here. Sunday night, I wanted to shoot a doe. I had one come in to 15 yards. It seemed like my arrow hit just perfect; just behind the shoulder. I got down and found very little blood. I tracked what I could find in the dark and jumped a deer. I headed back out and took the next day off work to look for her(I usually only take one or two days off to hunt and I was confident I would find her). After looking for 3 hours I found nothing. My dad found the carcass with a hole in the top of her shoulder on Wed. Sucks! The deer had made it about a mile. By wed. morning it was completely destroyed by the coyotes. I will never look for a deer from now on without good blood even if I think the shot is perfect.
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RE: need some perking up!! - 11/7/2009 8:38:12 AM
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Mac
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Perk up:
Come on buddy! You can do it! Get back out there and don't give up! 
These things happen bud. Don't get down on yourself to bad.
Just because they don't show the hunts, it even happens to the pros.
I know the sick feeling tho.
I shot at a doe last year right at dark - this was the last day and the only deer I saw all year.
When my dad goes hunting with me he takes my 30.06 and leaves me with my nail driver .223.
I shoot matchs with this gun so there was no reason that I would've missed.
The doe bolted like it hadn't been hit.
I looked for about 3 hours that night, then 6 hours the next day.
I didn't find hair, blood, bone, piss, poop, nothing.
I went back to camp and shot my gun and the damn screw had fallen out of my scope mount and my scope was off by about 3 feet at 50 yards.
I knew that I had missed then and that sick feeling went away.
In your case,,,, You'll probably never lose that feeling but as I said before.
Just remember that it happens to everyone if they hunt long enough.
Keep your head up man and keep hunting.
My daughter went down a slide yesterday and hit pretty hard when she hit the ground.
She didn't want to go down it anymore, so you know what daddy did!
I sent her butt right back up there and she went again, she saw that it was fun again so she went again, and again, and again.
That's my advise.
Get back out there ASAP and do it again, and waste some shoulder meat this time.
Drop one hard thru the shoulders and get yours balls back. lol
It'll help that feeling a little bit.
Good luck with your next hunt.
< Message edited by Mac -- 11/7/2009 8:42:13 AM >
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RE: need some perking up!! - 11/7/2009 1:44:00 PM
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burnnurse1
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Thanks guys. I know that stuff happens and we all mess up. Just sucks Knowing theres a wounded critter out there because of my errant shot. I'll be back out, hopefully next week and hopefully with better results
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RE: need some perking up!! - 11/7/2009 1:46:36 PM
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buckfarmdude
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I guy I know that hunts our property shot a nice 8 point last weekend with a .308. He only found one drop of blood, which wasn't much of a clue. He started wandering around with his flashlight and eventually stumbled upon it. He said without pure luck he never would have found it, and it was only about 100 yards from where he shot it.
Don't forget to check the obvious places, too. Sometimes that's the last place we think to look. That deer may very well be dead somewhere.
BTW, isn't a .300 mag over-gunning a little bit?
< Message edited by buckfarmdude -- 11/7/2009 1:47:46 PM >
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RE: need some perking up!! - 11/7/2009 7:04:38 PM
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nhdeerchaser
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Burn,
I know how you feel.
After 11 years of hunting, last year on the last day of rifle at 8 am, I called in a beautiful buck. He came in behind, quartering to me. I took the shot, hit him, then we never found him.
I have never felt so low in all the previous years of hunting. I wished I had never seen him. It was a terrible shot. I took the worst possible angle, and will never again take a quartering towards shot.
So, I know this won't make you feel any better, but at least you are not alone. I still have'nt shaken it.
Mike
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RE: need some perking up!! - 11/8/2009 12:28:06 AM
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Putcountybowhunter
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If you know you hit it and you think its gonna drop, find the closest water source and look there. Blood loss and shock both cause dehydration and if the deer can move I can almost guarantee you its gonna move towards water. This is my first year hunting with a bow and I've blown mmore opportunities than i care to recall, and numerous times of contemplated giving it up. But everymorning at 4 am I find the strength to get out of bed and try again because I know that persistance WILL pay off. So stick with it regardless of what happens, if you keep going out you WILL get your deer. As for the deer you're worried you might have wounded if you dont find it and it dies coyotes will eat it and the circle of life will continue. It sucks when it happens and we all do what we can to avoid wounding deer but its not like you just shot the last unicorn on earth. Nothing in the natural world is wasted (except for maybe opportunity) and although you may not be able to use that deer, something will. Learn from what happened and keep on trucking brother!!!
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RE: need some perking up!! - 11/8/2009 12:35:28 AM
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Putcountybowhunter
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I was reading through the thread and i just wanted to mention that the .300 win mag is an extremely popular deer round throughout much of the country (esp. out west), so i wouldnt say its over gunning it at all. Shoot, most muzzleloaders are over 50 cal and a 12 guage double 0 is just as big if not bigger. I once saw someone write on here that its not the caliber of the gun but the caliber of the person shooting that matters and I thought it might be worth repeating here. Not looking for a fight or anything, just thought id put my two cents in.
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RE: need some perking up!! - 11/8/2009 5:56:35 PM
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hookset6969
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Have that same feeling right now myself, I shot a 135-145" buck this morning had very little blood which seems to be the case this year seeing how the last three deer I've shot have had very little blood. But anyway tracked this guy 600 plus yards on drops and then searched threw a big grass area just to end up empty handed. The shot was 35 yards which may seem kind of far for some but I shoot 3-4 times weekly, this was a very makable shot for me. I had all the confidence in the world until I had tracked 200 yards and had found nothing. I don't know what the deal is this year with these spitfire broadheads but my blood trails have sucked. The last three were all double lung shots with poor blood. So my day has pretty well sucked I plan on going back out to see if I can find this guy. This was the biggest deer I have shot at in 8 years. Just wish I could of had the blood that I've previously had using these heads. I have been bowhunting 17 years now so this was not the first and will not be the last seeing that I plan on hunting more, Heads high I'll give em hell next time, good luck guys
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