I got a shot at a doe but....

Well, I went out hunting this morning. Crawled out of bed at 6:00 and was off to my stand by 6:20. Sitting in the stand by 6:40 waiting for it to get light enough to see. I sat there and sat there...nothing...then...a deer. I heard something and immediately turned to my left and saw a deer heading right towards me about 20 yards. Still heading towards me, not even seeing or smelling me at all. I waited, full draw to get a good shot as this doe turned and decided to walk towards the back of my stand. I decided to make a bleat noise to get the doe to stop inorder to get a shot. It worked...the doe stopped and I got a good shot at it. It kicked and I could see the arrow sticking out of the other side as it went running by me. I thought, yeah..I got it. I waited for about an hour before heading after my doe. My dad and I searched, first finding my arrow completely covered with blood, a good sign I thought. We followed a blood trail for about 100 yards and then nothing..no blood, no deer, nothing. We searched another 1 and 1/2 and still couldn't find it. The temp here today at high 80's so I know this is not a good sign. My dad and family searched again later in the day and still couldn't find the doe.
I'm not sure what the heck happened. I know I made a good shot. I saw the arrow sticking out and it went through, we found blood. I guess it's just one of those things that I will never know. Maybe it was a bad angle and didn't quite get alot of the lung, even though the blood was bright red indicating a lung hit.

I will be out tomorrow morning, taking another shot at a doe.

By the way, I pulled some pictures from this stand and on Monday night I went hunting and chose to sit in stand #3 and didn't see anything. The pictures from stand #1 and a 4 point buck came through that stand about 7:30pm in the evening the same night. Wrong stand, wrong time...

Well, I will report what happens this weekend...hope it turns out better.


Best of luck on your next hunt,



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