Thanks for all the luck sent my way.......I really wish I could have found this deer. As usual, I have been replaying it over and over in my mind since last night. Things I should have done differently, etc. Here is what I know: #1 - I should have waited to see if he was going to walk to the does he was tending. This would have been a game of chance....he could have turned to the does and given me a perfect quartering away shot, or he could have turned and spotted me, with him blowing out with no shot.
#2 - I should have stayed on my property and left him sit for an hour or two. The reason I didnt was because I felt, at the time, that it was a fatal shot, and didnt want to lose the blood trail due to the rain. In reality, I gave him about 30-45 minutes to bed down, but he never did. Not once did I find a bed with blood in it, or large pools except for the spot where I watched him stop. Had I left him alone, even until this morning, I feel I would be posting hero shots instead of how stupid I am. As much walking around as I did on our property and the neighbors, I am staying out until tomorrow evening. I will be taking my wife out for an evening hunt, and hopefully something good walks by.
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