StixNstrings
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Shot a nice 8 pointer over east today, came right into the decoy but I had to wait till he was leaving to get an undetected shot. He turned and walked toward the timber than stopped and turned his head back, everything was pretty much textbook. A clean open shot at 35 yds quartered away, I put the 30 yd pin behind his right shoulder and let the Muzzy fly. I heard the crunch of the ribcage and and a loud crack, I could see about 8-9" of the arrow shaft still sticking out his right side as he ran up the hill in the timber. The guy hunting with me was about 100 yds south on the other side of the timber, he said he seen the buck on the ridge staggering and didnt think it would be too far away. I had a good blood trail to follow, than about 1/4 mile later I found the business end of the arrow, about 20 more yds I found the fletched end, 100 yds after that no blood no deer. The blood trail Id found was between a fenceline and an unpicked cornfield I continued to walk the edge of the cornfield trying to pick up the trail again. I walked clear to the end when I got there I seen a buck on the fenceline about 50 yds north of me, not wanting to take any chances on it being him and running further away we went to town and waited 2 hours. When we got back I went back up there, still no blood no buck so we started walking the rows in the cornfield looking, but it didnt turn up anything the episode covered aprox 3/4 of a mile and lasted about 5 hours. We finally gave up I dont mind missing a deer but hitting one and not being able to find it just kills me.