what a shame

[halliday]

not the picture ya want to find on your trail camera...some body needs practice

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r5/halliday0158/11-17-06003.jpg

[SelenaKaye]

An arrow high through the back!

Poor thing............what a shame!:mad:

[deerhunt45]

hate to see that kinda thing happen but unfortunately it does :(

45

[BandanaMan]

That's bad news! :mad:

[CritterGitter]

That shot looks high and too far back. I wonder if the deer was moving when the shot was taken. Not a good shot at all. I am a little surprised she hasn't gotten it out of there by rollin around on the ground or running through thick brush. That's just a shame.

Kyle

[coonskinner]

doesnt mean it was a poor shot...but could mean other things,jumpin string,good shot poor hunter...like shootin to far,or shootin thru brush or on an alert deer...or just plain bein nervous...maybe a young hunter...we dont know:mischeif:

[countyroad]

Well she's alive and she'll probably be fine. I'm sure she's in some pain. These animals can overcome quite a bit.

[mullskinner]

Well she's alive and she'll probably be fine. I'm sure she's in some pain. These animals can overcome quite a bit.

THIS DEER APEARS TO BE FEEDING ..ANOTHER GOOD SIGHN ..I'M WITH CR I THINK THE DEER WILL BE FINE ...:)

[halliday]

She's been out under my tree all season with her twins and hasn't seemed to travel very far from the section...not sure where she could have gotten stuck since nobody else hunts very close...we just got back from checking the camera and have several pictures of the twins but no momma....sad...she's had twins in there for several years now.

[Big H]

She is probably getting bred by a buck right now. Hopefully he doesn't cut his leg on the arrow.

[halliday]

That's a better thought than her laying out somewhere in 120 acres of CRP grass dead...at the angle the arrow apperars to be someone was real low in their tree or took a very long shot. Just my thought but the arrow looks to be very slender like a carbon and if so probably isn't broken off...so if so isn't it awfully short for a compound..? maybe a sting gun huh....?

[BuzzCut]

"to be very slender like a carbon and if so probably isn't broken off...so if so isn't it awfully short for a compound..? maybe a sting gun huh....?"

Too many variables that we don't know about to blame a weapon type or the person holding it??

[SomewhereinMapleton]

I'm sure this is the fault of a string gun or a nancy bow or better yet a string rifle, right?! No excuses, you go in the field with any kind of bow be prepared to make the shot. A while back there was talk of crossbow hunters being scabs, that's a carbon arrow from a compound, so I guess there's scabs in every corner. Sour grapes? Heck ya. No matter what you use be a big boy and make sure you know how to use it, you know the deer is going to drop down to jump the shot so shoot for the lower third, how dificult is that??

[Freedomrules3]

Lots of things happen before or during the shot. It does happen even to the most careful hunter on occasion....that small limb that wasnt seen, a feeding deer that shouldn't but does jump at the string, wrong distance estimation. I'm sure at the shot all intentions were good , its not always a perfect world :). kinda proves the "void zone" does exist though doesn't it :whistle:

looks like to me its gonna be fine if it can lose or break the arrow.

[halliday]

wasn't trying to blame any type or group of hunters in general...i hunt all private ground in a small community that my family owns...i know pretty much everyone that bow hunts in the area and have 2 nephews that have taken up hunting with crossbows but i always let them have a different section than i hunt to keep the activity down in my area...what i was thinking about was narrowing it down to what weapon and who so if my little buddies are sticking deer and not making good judgement then i can help them understand how important it is to practice and make good shots and understand what deer do ...like string jumping and such. Sorry some of you take offense so easily. In 30 years of deer hunting i've only lost 1 deer that i've stuck and my brother killed him the first day of gun season with the wound almost healed...i figure that gives me the right to be concerned about this wounded doe and try and help these boys be better hunters. By the way...she was out in the wheat field Thur.night with her twins and the arrow was gone....

[lung buster]

That is the"No mans land" void area that so many say exist's! I think that the deer will live!

[BandanaMan]

I passed on a heard of does Friday with this photo in mind!

Six does at 22 yards and less with no good shot at any of them!

Drat! :mad:

[bowhuntinoh]

well i hate to say it but since i started hunting i have had 2 bad shots on deer. one was in the hip i hit a twig and i checked that shooting lane a bunch. the other im not sure of the hit but only found a couple drops of blood. my broadhead arrow combination was wrong for my bow the arrow wind plained. i now have it fixed