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sigh..lost a good illinois whitetail

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salad days:
The first time I ever shot a deer I shot it through the brisket and lost the trail. Worst feeling ever. Any more I won't even take a shot unless it's perfectly clear and within my self imposed range limit. It's a tough pill to swallow but you've just gotta keep your head up and try not to let it get you down. Lesson learned for next time. :(

mullet:
 Sorry to hear about your loss. I'm not going to get in to the "too far" shot stuff. Sounds like if it was stolen your shot did it's part.

ballista:
**should have specified** the weather was so dreary, i didnt feel to confident with my longbow, so i dusted off the old wheelie bow-i don't like em much eiter, but the uncanny accuracy is unbeatable. aas far as the shot i took, its almost rutt, and i havent gotten a deer(ever) so i made damn sure if i was gonna take a shot, i was gonna put every inch of concentration into it, 43 yards from the seat of my stand to that brush pile. as far as the range... it wasn't the smartest move on my part. I'm thinking the broadhead had a 100% puncture through one lung, high, then got into the other lung, not penetraitiong the other side of the hide, this is why i think the blood went dry, personally i think he was robbed, but you gotta be oped to all ideas , and the more realistic one is that the one hole in the hide got plugged up a bit...... god it kills me talkin about that theory, there was parts were the blood was so good it looked like a massacre. thanks for the help everyone, god bless you and your hunt. -jimmy

armymedic.2:
yeah the too far thing is a personal setting....as far as the deer, it sounds a lot like a muscle hit to me.  o have tracked many that the blood looks good but then just stops, you didn;t mention the deer ever bedding, and it sure sounds like it went over 100 yards, no way a double lung deer makes it that far.......sounds like muscle to me man, maybe one lung, but def not two.

ballista:
 to be realistic, i though it could have been spineshot, we tracked a 9 point last night that was gutshot, and the only form of tracking this deer we had was the russling up of the ground, but my dad managed to fnd that, yet a deer that bleed enouth to fill a water pitcher was left unfounded... well, its hard to say without finding him- the trail went dry, but the deer i've experienced have all stopped bleeding when there gut shot, as the innerds start to move and shift out of the hole, they plug the blood-this was a high shot, which makes me go back to my theory it was taken off of the property it ran on... i guess the moral is to know your way about tracking without a blood trail to go off of, but it kills me kowing theres a sizable doe laying out there, anfd within a few days it'll go to those pest coyotes that haven't been in eyesight, but you can hear em, lod and clear- pretty eerie. thanks again, -jimmy

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