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Just for the record books...
iowabow:
The only positive thing to come out of this is I can focus on what it takes to bring it together. Also the shaft did not split and the glue did not break and the tendon remained intact. So everything worked just no deer.
iowabow:
I figured re-tooling was the only thing to get back in the "next time" mindset.
gstoneberg:
John,
Are you sure you didn't get up and into the shoulder blade? I guess it's possible a centered rib might stop the arrow but I wouldn't have thought so. I would have guessed major bone strike to stop the arrow like that...either big leg bone or scapula. Too bad, you've really a string of bad luck. I would chalk it up to another Murphy attack and get after it again. She will almost certainly recover.
By the way, how high up are you? The higher I go the more I struggle to keep my arrows down. I have done the same thing, though it was with a steel head. My shot got up into the spine as the shot was very close and I was high.
George
iowabow:
Most of the time I am at 12 this one had to be at 14. I am 100% sure it was in the lung kill zone dead center. She stopped and l could see the hit. The shoulder was not in the hole I shot through. Strange things happen on my primitive hunts. I have never been challenged like this before. Getting a deer was always easy with a gun or modern bow. I am 0 at 15 yards. I think the deer gods are against me. I do like all the help it has helped a lot. I could see the arrow 5 inches behind the shoulder and in the middle of the body. I just don't know what to think about why it worked like that.
johnston:
John you gotta be doing everything just right to get so many opportunities. And you put an arrow right where you wanted it. Hey, it is just October. This primitive stuff is pretty damn hard after all. That is what makes all of us so special 8), we go the hard route.
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