Geno C

what a stud! nice deer

Yikes... lol

joe i heard that saying the other day for the first time and you can not be more right!

man been thinking of his deer today. i am pulling for him! hope he can come up with some closure on this...

i agree with you totally... i dont shoot for horns per say but if i did shoot something of drastic size and put a crap shot on him id do anything i can do to find him. Even if the meat has spolied, that would be on me. But it is my deer and still gets my tag. but i understand you

i agree to a certain extent Steve but its a recovery none the less... Had it been a 6 point we can only wonder howmuch effort would be put into the search but a 200 class deer im sure MOST will continue that search for quite sometime. Im not knocking how things panned out for Pete, i have spoke to him on here a few times and he seems like a great guy so i can not judge...

Pete chimed in up top a few posts up. hes been there before, heck we all have... Its a learning curve when something like this happens. Taking the initiative and not giving up is what matters, regardless the size of that animal. That arrow flew hit the deer and thats your deer. For some it would be easy to give up and climb back in another tree and for others, they will do what it takes to recover that deer... will you always find them? no. but we can hope and try. there are guys that will take a shot and the shot is marginal, they will little time into the recovery and continue to hunt, now thats a scary thought. But guys like Pete and LIB are prime examples of making the best of marginal shot. i lost a 4point a few years ago, great blood. played the shot back in my head thought it was a lung hit gave the deer an hour. bumped him spent countless hours and never made the recover... sucks

lol good point... funny part is i have the wife scan also while im driving, she usually spots em too but not many deer she can spot sleepin lol. me on the other hand driving a few hour trip in the early am with a car full of sleeping people and dogs i can do much but drive and scan lol

great video john! PS: have you ever went home after hunting your stand and wondered how you got poison ivey? cause around your stand is loaded LOL nice vid

^^ thats deff a great start! Dave has a great point

if it was a solid lung shot with good blood and signs of bubbles in it, call me crazy but i would have to assume a dead deer not to far from your shot. NOW having said that, being a 30 yard shot with little light on the horizon i am going to have to say there may be enough variables that could have happened that with all the excitement you may not have seen. The deer may have been quartering slightly to and thus produced a liver/lung. alls im saying is ya never know. one can only play back a shot in his head but with little light a spur of the moment bow retrieval and nocking of an arrow im sure something may have been over looked, it happens. I wish you great luck for tomorrow and i hope you can get your hands around him! goodluck bud

liver/lung is not entirely different then hitting just liver but i guarantee you will not find a liver hit deer without waiting a decent amount of time. although a liver hit deer hit a more lethal hit compared to a gut shot, the waiting game is close and both hits should be treated the same and the deer should have enough time to expire.

i hear you, yeah there are many variables for sure... we can only envision a picture someone is telling us. Hard to know everything without being there. But if hes 18 im sure he got excited alittle buck fever perhaps and may not 100% have seen where the shot was and so on. hope he finds it tho.

i wouldnt be ashamed.. If you exhaust every avenue possible what else can you do. I would keep at it, honestly... even if you have to bang in sick tomorrow but thats just me. Its not a great feeling when you arrow one and are unable to make the recover. BUT it does happen... keep at it get in there and do circle patterns where you last picked up blood.

that was an awesome video! very interesting

pretty cool... maybe ill just drive up and down 87 now... lol jk

lol i was like that last year... this year i can control myself

bring it! lol they have been wrong before and will continue to be wrong... we could get snow this weekend too lol jk hard to really play the wind out her on the island even when its called for one direction it always changes... whats heavy winds tho? 20+?

also to throw in "unethical" is kind of un called for IMO... he has every right to let that buck expire THE RIGHT WAY. guys with the mentality of getting on that trail so soon are the ones who usually loose their deer quick... that deer would be fine over night into late morning with out a problem in my opinion...

the shot could have been gut shot BUT it also could be liver/ lung or liver. A liver hit deer could take 6 - 24 hours to expire assuming the degree of the hit. I would no doubt give a liver hit deer 12 hours to bed up and expire. Gut shot deer could take just as long... i personally dont think 4 - 6 hours would have been sufficient time BUT thats just me and with a deer as described i would have to air on the side of caution and fight the urge to pursue that animal. also on a liver hit deer you will get great blood but after giving the deer time and perusing the bloodtrail and coming up on the first spot where the deer bedded up is a tall tail sign you should back out and give him time. otherwise you will push that deer and that good blood will turn to spotty blood in no time. These are the options he has to weigh out and i am certain the chance of the deer spoiling has crossed his mind more then once.

very neat pic!

Shot the bow tonight and all i can say is WOW, just WOW... it is blazing fast and VERY smooth for a bow with a 5" brace height! I am loving this bow. i will take some pictures soon

wow no update yet? this cant be good... Hope we didnt get the update because hes celebrating the recovery and harvest. best of luck!

oh i got you... oh i know that jar wasnt going to slow him down any. i was just asking...

man, thats alot of pins lol i had 3 but used 2. one was my tree stand pin for close quater shots and the other was good for 18-45 yards