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I could use a bit of advise. Just had a pass through on a doe. Decent blood on the arrow, no bubbles or anything. However I can't find one droplet of blood. I'm not confident with my shot either. Do I keep looking or give up till first light?


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I've had that happen to me before. However, I knew I hit her good. I searched in a sweeping pattern in the direction she ran for about 100 yards. I just happened to stumble up on her. With you saying you weren't sure about that shot, I would say back out though! Maybe look around a little but I wouldn't push to hard.

 

I backed out. I've got time in the morning before work. I felt good about the shot when I took it. I just never saw the impact. Hope I can sleep tonight.


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I hate trying to sleep knowing the deer could be laying 25 yards away lol. As you said before, I don't envy your lack of sleep haha

 

Any thoughts?


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After searching 200 yards in every conceivable direction and not finding anything I have called off the search. After quite a bit of googling last night, I believe that I didn't hit any of the vitals and that the deer will most likely survive. I certainly hope that's the case. I may look some more after work though...


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It happens to everyone! Plenty more where that came from

 

Coastie,
My son shot a doe last year. Thought it was a good shot. Found blood right off the bat then it stopped. We looked well into the night and all the next morning. Couldn't find another drop of blood. About a month later that doe showed up on trail cams. Her injuries had healed. You could see the entrance and exit wound up high. Missed everything. My bet is that your deer will survive and thrive. Keep hunting!!

 

Rampaige,
Remember, you can't sit on a kill more than a few days, waiting to enter it can result in it not counting. I know your not doing it on purpose, but just want to make we get the points!

 

Just posted the score for the buck. 105 6/8". I'm going out tonight to hopefully tag another. We get 4 archery tags here in CT.

Coastie, that looks like muscle tissue on the arrow. Could have hit high and forward. Hopefully it's a wound the deer can recover from but I know the feeling all too well. I shot a monster last year. Looked like a beautiful shot and there was blood all over the place for the first 50 yards. Never found him after 3 hard long days of searching. December rolled around and he showed up on camera. The buck I just shot Tuesday also left hardly any blood at all. I happened to find him after giving up on looking for blood. He had only gone maybe 25 yards. Best of luck to you, buddy.

 

Ngabowhunter fixed his doe entry and with yours entered, that should give us a good start. I'm chomping at the bit, I'll be in a stand when the sun comes up. Tomorrow I'm going after a doe, I have a spot where I have 8-10 does on camera at one time. I'm going to try and shoot a doe there and then move into the swamp after a buck Saturday and Sunday. We only have 80acres at that particular proeperty, but it has a narrow swamp running through it and the deer always use it to cross the property.

 

I'm a fan of shooting does early. I don't shoot them after Halloween because of the possibility they have been bred. No sense on killiing a doe that's carrying a P&Y Buck To-Be.

 

In southern Alabama our rut doesn't start until late January into Febuary, so we shoot does up till Jan 1st. However, our Georigia rut starts the first of November, so I just try to get one asap up there and be done shooting does.
It's nice with the ruts being far apart, I am done hunting Georgia before Alabamas rifle season even comes in. So I get to hunt two different ruts

 

That's crazy to me haha. That must certainly make things interesting. I have friends in Mobile. I was down there in 2013 but I didn't get a chance to hunt at all.

I'm back up in the tree for the evening. This is the stand where I'm set up for the bucks I posted pictures of a few weeks ago. I feel a lot less pressure not that I have a deer under my belt so I'm gonna be holding out for the big one to show himself.

 

Who do you know in mobile? I live about 15 miles north of Mobile in Saraland. Might as well be in mobile though, you have to go into mobile to get or do anything lol
Let's see some 'in the stand' pics of where everyone is hunting. Gives people something to look at lol

 

One of my good friends from high school grew up down there, moved to CT because his father was in the Coast Guard, and moved back down there a few years ago.

Here's the view from my stand. I expect the deer to show just from the right of that tree in the middle.

This is my favorite stand. I used to call it the One-and-Done Stand because I would only see deer the first time I sat. After that everything would vanish. Last year, however, I sat about 5 times in Mid/Late Sept and saw a ton of deer every time. I killed my first archery deer, a little spike, from behind that stone wall in 2011. In 2012 I killed a 110" 8 pointer from this tree. Last year I had that bad shot on the real nice buck I've mentioned before. This spot is only good until October. After that it's dry as a bone. It's a very easy walk. I park across that field there. However, it's not a clean entry/exit whatsoever. I think that contributes to my poor success later in the season. The deer cross my path and spook a bit. Unfortunately it's not looking too promising this sit, either.

 

Looks good to me! Lol down here in Alabama we don't get the chance to hunt stuff quite like that. Where I hunt in Georgia is all ag land through. It's like hunting the mid west but with more pines and more heat haha

 

No deer this sit. Didn't see a thing.

I don't have any agricultural properties. This one is as close as I get to one and it's just hay. Usually there's a ton of clover but this year it's not looking good.

 

The big fields are peanut fields, they normally rotate peanuts and cotton every other year