Can't believe you would give up so easily.....go back out there and spend the next three days looking for the deer, she deserves it.

JK, sorry for your luck

Go look by water or a creek

Sometimes there is no blood. A friend shot one a few weeks ago, I got to the deer first and I couldn't even tell where the bullet went in till he got there and told me where it hit. Even then there was only a hole, no blood.

Sorry to hear it guy. Get back in the blind and stone the next one.

I shot my first doe with my bow this year to. She ran onto the neighbors property but he is a sad little old man and bitter and told us to get loss. I've never felt so bad for a deer, what a waist. Game warden couldn't do much should have called that night, but waited till the morning. Maybe he could have talked him into it.=[

I guess it's part of it I just wish we could all find every one we shot. It just tears me apart not being able to find her. I'll be back on the tawakoni wma in the morning to try for another one

That right there is why I will never ever go bow hunting.

Why is that Billybob

Wounding animals and having to track blood trails seems to be a trademark of bow hunting. I hunt for 2 reasons...one to put meat in the freezer and to do my part in the management of over 4,000,000 Texas deer. In my 40+ years of hunting I have never tracked an animal because it was wounded...they are found within 20 yards of where they were hit. While I can understand bow hunters wanting to play the game on a more even field... a disservice is done to both the animal and yourself with a wounding miss.

Good point

No it isnt. Plenty of deer are wounded and never recovered with other weapons each seasons. Bowhunters are not the only ones that fail to find the animals they hit.

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Maybe so...but since I've been on this forum...bow hunters have taking the prize for the most often wounded and lost game.

My grandson lost his first-ever buck a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, I did not see the shot, but my BIL and I both heard the impact and the deer ran approx. 100 yds before jumping the fence. There was no sign of blood anywhere and we were unable to get permission to go look for it.
The exact same load and gun (.270 win. shooting 140 gr. Hornady S.P.'s) was used to take my buck on 11\12 and it took out both shoulders and left a tennis-ball sized exit wound.
Hunted for many years and this was the first one I've ever lost-it's a sickening feeling for sure.

It is sikening feeling, Not all deer that are hit with bow or gun die. Many that are thought tobe dead and lost actually survive and live life with a scar, be it from any of the guns or bows. Ask any processor that has been doing it a while and listen to what they have found in deer. bullets, broadheads, parts of arrows.......

It does cause pain for the deer and a while healing I would imagine, but many go on to live long lives with that "fatal shot", or to only be taken by some other hunter. Some do die a slow death but natural death is a slow process in the wild many times or get caught in a fence, hit by a car.....

Sorry to hear that the OP lost this deer. It sux but that deer might just provide him or another hunter part of an arrow that went into no-mans-land that will become another relic for some processor or hunter with a looky what I found in my deer.