AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT!!

[moosehunter]

I finally found the deer I shot bowhunting. Problem is that someone found it before I did and lopped the head off. I found part of my arrow around the site though which was spead out from coyotes. He was laying 100 yards from where I shot him.

Plus I found another deer minus a head. That makes 2 bucks minus heads and 2 does shot and left for no reason. Not counting the one I shot and never recovered.......

 

[all4s]

Wow, only 100 yards. That must have been some thick stuff. Do you think you walked within a few feet of him while searching aftre the shot? That sucks Moosehunter.

Better luck next time.
Hunt on All4s

 

[moosehunter]

100 yards from the stand but, Me and my help trailed him for close to a mile and half before I lost him in a different woods a day 1/2 later. My guess is it took him a week or so to expire. It still bothers me I couldn't find him back then. But it does motivate me to become the best shot I can be so hopefully it doesn't happen again. .....

 

[tracker]

That's not a good deal.

 

[firedog]

Wow! That sucks big time. Hate to see that kind of activity going on anywhere. Any idea on who could possibly be doing that to the deer? I've had a couple deer take off for the next county to only find that they did a huge circle and come back to where I originally shot it. Wonder if something like that happened. I've heard about that happening to other hunters also. Sorry to hear about the other guys taking deer heads. Sounds like a big problem in your area.

 

[FurDog]

I'd agree FireDog, circled back - I hear that alot. I'm sure it would have been found if it dropped 100 yds from the stand initially.