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dipper
Guest
I'm not saying this to make you feel bad or make the situation worse for you. I'm quilty of this myself with these damn phones. Be it a phone or camera, it is best to keep distractions to a minimum while on stand. You are exactly right we work to damn hard to not bring our a game. For me, that includes minimizing distractions. Things happen so fast, if you don't have that mental edge happeni g at the shot, the quality of the shot decreases.
I'm not saying this to cut you, it is a reminder to myself because I am guilty of distracting myself.
Hopefully you grazed him and the dual isn't over
I'm not saying this to cut you, it is a reminder to myself because I am guilty of distracting myself.
Hopefully you grazed him and the dual isn't over
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MoBuckChaser
Guest
Wasn't f-in with the camera when I was at full draw. No Distractions, just didn't find the deer.
Jordan Selsor
5 year old buck +
That's bowhunting. Anyone who hasn't had this happen is either lieing or hasn't hunted much. Keep your head up Mobuckchaser. Never planned, or ideal but reality
THunter
5 year old buck +
Been there, done that.
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dipper
Guest
To each their own-there is a reason the most gifted snipers in the world have spotters. There is a lot of mental things going on when you make a shot. Especially at a stud buck you have been so committed at killing. There is a certain correlation between a spotter and someone filming a hunt.
Like I said, I'm not critiquing you, just trying to help. You are an accomplished bow hunter who can surely handle making the shot. With much more consistency than me, mind you! I remember you brining up self filming earlier in the year. My points now are the same points I immediately thought of, along with the greater wounding potiental.
Your pissed, just hate to see it happen again to you.
Like I said, I'm not critiquing you, just trying to help. You are an accomplished bow hunter who can surely handle making the shot. With much more consistency than me, mind you! I remember you brining up self filming earlier in the year. My points now are the same points I immediately thought of, along with the greater wounding potiental.
Your pissed, just hate to see it happen again to you.
Steve Bartylla
5 year old buck +
Sorry MO...I don't care who you are or what anyone says. You hunt long enough and have enough opportunities and bad things will happen sometimes. When it happens to me, I allow myself to beat the snot out of me for 1 day, do my best to learn something from it and then do my best to stop pummeling myself over it. the best thing you could do, IMO, is get out there and roll a doe ASAP. Does wonders for getting the mind right again (for me at least), and bowhunting is sooooooooooooo much more mental than we give it credit for.
P.S. If your descriptions of events are accurate (I know as well as any that things happen fast and not always exactly as they appear), odds are you didn't kill him and he won't be impacted long term over this. You most likely went over the spine and gave him a really bad deep muscle scratch, but nothing that will impact him long term. He'll most likely be breeding in a little over a month from now.
P.S. If your descriptions of events are accurate (I know as well as any that things happen fast and not always exactly as they appear), odds are you didn't kill him and he won't be impacted long term over this. You most likely went over the spine and gave him a really bad deep muscle scratch, but nothing that will impact him long term. He'll most likely be breeding in a little over a month from now.
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MoBuckChaser
Guest
Thanks for the encouragement Steve!
Deer are pretty tough. That is what I am hoping happened, now that I did not find him. But I had good daylight and that shot looked high on impact, but not spine high.
But I am old, and with all the Viagra the Barracuda puts in My malts at night, maybe it's starting to effect my vision!:eek:
Steve Bartylla
5 year old buck +
Depending on shot angle, it's also possible you just clipped the top of both lungs...or 1 and center punched the other. A study I read somewhere stated that right around 50% of single lung hit deer live. I was so amazed by that I shared this with my wife, who is a nurse. She got this "you're saying something dumb again" look on her face and explained that all sorts of people live with 1 collapsed lung. Why would deer be any different?! You put a hole in the meat of a lung and that lung is pretty much toast. Slice the edge and it can continue to function. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if you sliced the upper side of the near side lung, punched the opposite side and his near side lung is keeping him alive.
at 5.5, that buck is likely in his absolute physical prime. At the same time, he's been putting on fat, but yet to endure the stress of the rut. He's in peak condition that way, as well. Add it up and he's not going to die easy. Truly amazing animals.
P.S. all that said, your arrow inspection sounded like an above the spine hit...Now, I've center punched both lungs on a deer and had the arrow look like what you describe before. Still, the vast majority of lung hits look like lung hits.
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MoBuckChaser
Guest
You seen the video....He is in top condition of any deer I have seen down here. And I think you are correct that it went above the spine, by what was on the arrow. It just did not look that way. After the arrow hit the weed that turned out to be a giant ragweed, the arrow flattened out before impact instead of continuing on a downward path. Did not have enough blood on the arrow for lungs to me. So I am hoping he just got grazed high. Time will tell! Thanks again Steve and everyone!
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MoBuckChaser
Guest
I am over him, after this guy now!
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MoBuckChaser
Guest
How do you sleep knowing this could walk by at any moment! hahahaha! I know where I will hunt the next few evenings!
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MoBuckChaser
Guest
Did it ever! I had 5 bucks walk by this morning early and one doe. Early morns and late evenings are good right now!
strawhead
5 year old buck +
THAT IS ANOTHER NICE BUCK!!! Wish you luck and good fortune on your next shot. The boys here are somewhat discouraged. Our biggest buck of the year is a 15in. no brow 6pt. Looks like probably a 3.5 yr. old. Our daylight deer activity has gone waaaaaaay down. Right after leaf drop in the big woods our deer go weird for a short time.
