How to lose a deer

[Rancher626]

It is part of hunting, take if for what it is, use it to motivate yourself to not let it happen again. It sucks, whether it is a doe or a buck.

[boh347]

I've done that before to a doe and made the extra effort to find it as if it was a B&C buck. Ended up finding her. It happens to the best of us.

[catfishryan]

What's the difference?

Sorry, but that's as bad as the hunters in here saying 'its just a pig'.

she quartered towards the shooter there at the end and he misjudged it a little. it happens it sucks. every possible measure should be taken to recover the animal

if the exact same scenario happens with a monster buck that you have been waiting years or a lifetime for. it would suck more
and yes if it was a pig. it would suck less

[Gunnyart]

It sucked plenty. And it ended my bow Hunting for the year as I've already described. I suppose I'd have been more crushed had it been my first buck with a bow. (Which will now be put off at least another year because of it.)

Again the angle was a little better than the camera so I wouldn't say it was "way back". I was focused on picking a hair with my pin and didn't see her take that last step before I released.

I absolutely learned from the experience and just hoped by posting the video others might realize how small the margin of error is when shooting with a bow so they might have better success than me.

We gave it every effort to find her.

[Gunnyart]

Just realized I didn't describe the "ending the bow hunting thing" in this thread but elsewhere.

The land I hunt on belongs to a friend and he lets me hunt and I help him tend cows and mend fences etc.

He is not a bow hunter and has on several occasions expressed his reservations about bow hunting. This incident re-enforced all his preconceived notions so to keep the peace (and my place to hunt) I decided to switch to the boom stick.

[huntinfool]

It happens. That's part of it. But don't give up. Get right back out there and make it happen. Focus on what the deer is doing, aim small and miss small.

[Boomerang]

One thing that can help improve the margin of error is go have the doe take a step forward as opposed to her right side being compressed with the leg back. Plus they are fast and the video shows how they drop so fast. Razor sharp heads are critical, they need to slice paper without any dull spots.

[PondPopper]

Bad shot placement.

[SwampRabbit]

That sucks man. Plain and simple. I know the feeling. Exact same thing happened to me earlier this year.

[GarGuy]

Again the angle was a little better than the camera so I wouldn't say it was "way back". I was focused on picking a hair with my pin and didn't see her take that last step before I released.

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It was about a foot back and 3 inches low from the angle you shot. I have done it myself. If you watch the video, you can see the bow jerk to the right as you tried to get it out of your line of sight. The movement started before the arrow cleared the rest and cause the far left shot. That's why followthru is so important.

I used to struggle with the exact same problem when shooting deer.

[denowt]

I don't get the at least it's a doe comment. I don't think the target practice mentality is the right thing to have. Just my opinion. Hopefully that was meant different then it came across.

No one wants to wound an animal and not recover it.

That being said, it would bother me less to not recover a doe rather than a monster buck.
It would bother me even less if it was a pig.
An unrecovered pig would bother me less than a deer, but it would still bother me.
I don't think anyone meant that does are just target practice.

if the exact same scenario happens with a monster buck that you have been waiting years or a lifetime for. it would suck more
and yes if it was a pig. it would suck less

Agreed