Hey guys, i shot a doe last night, but here is the bad part. It walked behind a tree ten yards from me and she stepped out quartering to me and i shot her in the chest. I could have swore i herd her crash about 100 yards away at the bottom of the valley. The whole valley bottom is a thicket too. As soon as she ran and i got on my phone to call my dad it started to rain. It wasn't a little sprinkle either, this was a down pour. It did it for about two hours and we tracked the doe for about three but we couldnt find it. I had three of my buddies help and we walked the thickets. Now my question is can i hunt this spot anymore for a couple weeks since i have a dead doe carcass somewhere withing 150-200 yards (maybe closer). Im worried that the smell will push other deer away. thanks
1- a quarter to shot is almost always a low percentage shot. 2- there's still time to find her. I'd be out there looking again this AM & afternoon. 3- yes, this morning would most likely be slower if you were trouncing around in the woods there last night. I'd seriously recommend going back and looking more today in the daylight.
If you are that confident that she is dead, go find her. Also, learn from this to not take a quartering too shot.
Alright, i planed on getting out there today again, but another question is, will that spot be okay to hunt now or do i need to wait a few weeks
I think you need to re-evaluate the situation. I'd worry more about trying to find her than whether or not I could hunt it again immediately. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I am trying not to be rude here but when you take a shot on a deer you need to expend all efforts to find it. From the sound of your post "I planned on getting out there today again" is the wrong attitude. You NEED to get out there and should of been out there at first light. Not planned. If that means taking off school/work etc. you need to do that. If you can't live with giving those things up the next day then you should not of taken the shot. Can you share some info on the shot, how the arrow looked, how the blood looked that you did see or find before it rained, how did the deer react when shot. You need to try harder to find that deer you already shot and not new ones to shoot.
Everybody else already hit the nail on the head, get back out there and keep looking rather than worry about how soon you can hunt there again
I would say that based on your recovery effort, you should probably wait at least 8 weeks before hunting again.
i shot a doe on the 8th, and hunted the stand the 9th, 12th, and today and saw deer every day and killed a nice buck this morning. But i was in and out recovering that doe.
The local deer herd will be drawn to the smell of the soon to be rotten doe....hunt it hard everyday for a month at least. We look forward to you next post on 11/13/2014.........
Well i have school and a job so its not always a best case scenario so i can continuously get out and look for that deer
We all work, we all have other commitments for our time. You need to make responsible choices regarding shot selection, and maybe consider NOT shooting if you can't dedicate proper time for a recovery. In regards to your question you won't have much success in that spot for a few days anyway. Deer will tolerate the smell of death, they won't tolerate all the human smells from you guys tracking that doe.
never. ever. take a quartering to shot. It's probably the most unethical shot other than a deer facing head on. I still recommend looking for it a bit more but your spot should be fine. Deer die in the wild a lot so it won't effect your hunting
ive got about 10 hours in time looking for this doe, it pains me not finding it but sometimes its just how it goes, we are all hunters and we know that, the amount of criticizing is ridiculous, do you think i wanted to shoot and deer and just leave it to die without recovering it
