9 year old daughter wanted to hunt with me and shoot a doe, yesterday we tried for 3 hours to kill a nanny doe with my recurve, she was getting ran all around the feeder and never offered what I considered to be a high percentage shot.
So today in the rain, we head back to the same spot, compound bow now in tow and the nanny doe is waiting on us at the feeder as we walk up. She runs off but quickly returns and we start the game back up again with us waiting 30 min, she necer offering us a shot. A buck comes in and she starts running around again…tiring of this game she gave me a slightly quartering-to shot at 19 yards so I let it rip. Arrow buries to the fletching, she kicks and runs thru a patch of woods behind the feeder.
Teaching the little one the proper after shot protocol, we go to the impact point and find the expected blood…we go thru the gap that she went thru ( not the gap I thought she went, even at 20 yards I mistook the one she took for another ) and get on her blood trail. About 40 yards into the ticket little girl says “ hey dad I found your arrow” and picks it up. She hands me my trad arrow that I buried into a buck the last day of the season in early January…shot looked a little bit further forward than I would have liked but it appeared I got good penetration. Never did find the buck, any blood nor hair.
Well, this arrow was broke off just past the insert approx. 3” behind the broadhead.
I would have bet significant money that it buried halfway into the buck, but it kicked out about 40 yards from impact, but I had taken the wrong trail and never found the arrow ( boneheaded move on my part, I was on a trail only about 10 yards from the one he actually took ).
Guess there was a fair chance to buck survived, I can’t see how the arrow would have gotten broke unless it happened when he was running thru the brush on his getaway scrape
So today in the rain, we head back to the same spot, compound bow now in tow and the nanny doe is waiting on us at the feeder as we walk up. She runs off but quickly returns and we start the game back up again with us waiting 30 min, she necer offering us a shot. A buck comes in and she starts running around again…tiring of this game she gave me a slightly quartering-to shot at 19 yards so I let it rip. Arrow buries to the fletching, she kicks and runs thru a patch of woods behind the feeder.
Teaching the little one the proper after shot protocol, we go to the impact point and find the expected blood…we go thru the gap that she went thru ( not the gap I thought she went, even at 20 yards I mistook the one she took for another ) and get on her blood trail. About 40 yards into the ticket little girl says “ hey dad I found your arrow” and picks it up. She hands me my trad arrow that I buried into a buck the last day of the season in early January…shot looked a little bit further forward than I would have liked but it appeared I got good penetration. Never did find the buck, any blood nor hair.
Well, this arrow was broke off just past the insert approx. 3” behind the broadhead.
I would have bet significant money that it buried halfway into the buck, but it kicked out about 40 yards from impact, but I had taken the wrong trail and never found the arrow ( boneheaded move on my part, I was on a trail only about 10 yards from the one he actually took ).
Guess there was a fair chance to buck survived, I can’t see how the arrow would have gotten broke unless it happened when he was running thru the brush on his getaway scrape
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