Saturday Morning, I had the buck I've been waiting for come out 300 yards away and come right to me. I had 4 does 40 yards behind me so I knew he was gonna come. He was a buck I saw lasat season and found the sheds of, 6x5 with one abnormal. This year he is a typical 12 point. Not real long tines, just wide and with tons of mass and palmation. I had him at 15 yards with a fence inbetween us. After pulling back on him I waited and he kept facing directly at me looking at those does. I finally could now hold back any longer and let one go at him trying to shoot through the neck and get to the vitals. I was shaking so hard by then I think I must have hit a shoulder cause the arrow stuck out a long way. After giving him 2 hours, me and my dad tracked him for 1 mile at least we figured out. There was drops of bright red blood the whole time and small pools every 100 yards or so. There was never any sign that he bed down and that we were pushing him ahead. We found my arrow, busted off 8 inches from broadhead, 2/3 of a mile away. He hopped a fence after the mile, and went into a pasture that looked more like a CRP field since it hadn't been brush cut for so long. We didn't find anymore blood and I searched for the rest of the day with no luck. I know he would score in the 170's at least as his sheds from last year scored in the 160's even after the deductions, with putting a 18 inch spread on him.
I've been waiting for a buck like this and it is just the worst feeling in the world, not knowing if he is dead or not or whether I will ever see him again.
Just curious, what how far have some of you tracked a deer? And, is it odd that he would run over a mile, with loosing blood and never bedding down, or does that mean I just didn't hit him good at all? I don't even feel like bowhunting anymore this year, knowing I messed up like this, on such a magnificent animal.
I've been waiting for a buck like this and it is just the worst feeling in the world, not knowing if he is dead or not or whether I will ever see him again.
Just curious, what how far have some of you tracked a deer? And, is it odd that he would run over a mile, with loosing blood and never bedding down, or does that mean I just didn't hit him good at all? I don't even feel like bowhunting anymore this year, knowing I messed up like this, on such a magnificent animal.