180class
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So, here's the story. Last night at about 7:00 I have a nice big fat doe and 2 fawns come in. I range the doe at 33 yards, slightly quartering away. I get my 30 yard pin settled on the sweet spot and hit the release. Perfect hit, so I think. When the arrow hit, it sounded perfect. She kicked both of her hind legs up and took off. She went North, the two fawns went South. About 5 minutes later, I have what I think is another big doe comeing directly at me from the same directions the doe I just shot ran. This one get to 20 yards and right before I hit the release, some jackass on an atv comes flying through obviously tresspassing, and spooks the doe resulting in no shot. I'll get to the rest of this part later. Anyways, I get down out of my tree and find my arrow. I find the arrow is covered in bright pink blood which looked like lung blood to me. But, the only thing I don't understand is the blood seems to only be on half of the arrow. By half, I mean only on one side the entire length of the arrow. One fletching is completely covered in blood but the other two are not. One side of my wrap is covered, but on the opposite side of the wrap, it is still bright white. Anyways, I look for a blood trail and only find one little drop at the point of impact. I search for a good 30 minutes for more blood but come up empty. Here is my question. Is it possible to have hit her low enough in the chest, that I only clipped her and would only have blood on half my arrow? The way the hit sounded and the way she reacted would leave me to believe it was a perfect shot, but I couldn't find any more blood or any deer. Also is it possible that the second doe I had coming in was her coming back through looking for her two fawns? If so, she wasn't hurt at all. Now back to captain retard on the atv. While I'm looking for more blood, he decides to come back by me. I flag him down and rip him a new fart hole. He said he had permission to ride there, but when I asked him who gave the permission, he said the name other than the land owner. I asked him if common sense would say that if you seen a vehicle sitting on the edge of a timber maybe you shouldn't go riding through there. He just had a dumb look on his face and said "I'm sorry". There were some more words exchanged, mostly just him staring at me with a deer in the headlights look and me letting him have it. I finally told him to get the hell out of here and not come back. He didn't waste anytime leaving. I don't expect to see him again. So, what do you all think? Do I have a dead deer someplace or not? Sorry for rambling on.