bigcard75
11-19-2007, 12:14 PM
I was Hunting on Saturday and I shot a huge doe after watching it graze for an hour.
I shot this doe from about 50 yards. I had my crosshairs right behind the shoulders aiming for the vitals. When I squeezed the trigger I watched the deer.
It hit the ground hard and instantly sprung up running off, she made for the trees and hit the ground doing a sideways slide. She got back up right away and kept going, running through the woods and making a ton of noise.
I searched for this deer for at least 3 hours. I walked a radius from where I shot her into the woods of about 50 yards wide and about half mile back. I seached everywhere and didn't even find one drop of blood, not even where I know I hit her. I checked the spot where I hit her and could easily tell wher she hit the ground, fur and messed up grass on the frosty covered ground. Again there was no blood here. I walked to the spot where she slid into the woods, again all was messed up, the leaves and sticks that actually moved, pluss where her hooves scraped trying to get up, again no blood. I checked everywhere even went back at night with a blood light to try and find a blood trail. I am sick about this and don't know what to do. I hope that I didn't just wound her real bad, but don't see how I could have missed.
What do you guys think I should do? Have you ever seen a deer fall when a shot was taken when you missed, have you ever seen a deer trip when it was running away?
I don't know what to do here. Any advice.
I shot this doe from about 50 yards. I had my crosshairs right behind the shoulders aiming for the vitals. When I squeezed the trigger I watched the deer.
It hit the ground hard and instantly sprung up running off, she made for the trees and hit the ground doing a sideways slide. She got back up right away and kept going, running through the woods and making a ton of noise.
I searched for this deer for at least 3 hours. I walked a radius from where I shot her into the woods of about 50 yards wide and about half mile back. I seached everywhere and didn't even find one drop of blood, not even where I know I hit her. I checked the spot where I hit her and could easily tell wher she hit the ground, fur and messed up grass on the frosty covered ground. Again there was no blood here. I walked to the spot where she slid into the woods, again all was messed up, the leaves and sticks that actually moved, pluss where her hooves scraped trying to get up, again no blood. I checked everywhere even went back at night with a blood light to try and find a blood trail. I am sick about this and don't know what to do. I hope that I didn't just wound her real bad, but don't see how I could have missed.
What do you guys think I should do? Have you ever seen a deer fall when a shot was taken when you missed, have you ever seen a deer trip when it was running away?
I don't know what to do here. Any advice.