Are these long shots we are talking about or 150 yards and less?

My neighbor killed one this afternoon finally 60# doe fawn hit her in the neck. All shots are under 100 yds he’s told me about.

Surprisingly no most of these leg shots have been under 50 yard. Seems folks don't shoot up close folks don't understand that up close they likely to hit low and even lower 20 ft up a tree

Went and checked one this morning turned out to be a complete miss.

Well I'm afraid I may have goofed up.
Had a call last night for possible gut shot with a 338 win mag and poss. Property line issue.i told the guy we needed to wait cause if it was guts we didn't need to bump it onto that the other property if he didn't think we could get permission. But I was also thinking it was a 338 and anything from it inside the body cavity was dead. Hunter also reported 3 small drops of blood at the hit sight and no blood trail. Well we decided on wait till this morning we pulled up to the shooting house and there it laid 30 yard away dead and swelled up.

You never know for sure in those situations when you dont have more information to go off of.......

No but dang it almost tried to talk him into us getting it last night.

Sounds like he goofed up not you

Got after what I believe was the bo Jackson of deer last night.
This was a call from a guy that shot about 1130 in the morning and waited a hour and started looking for it. Deer was shot at head on 150 yards 7mm rem mag 162gr sst. Long white and gray hair at the shot sight with small drops of blood they tracked up the mountain about 200 yard into a pine thicket and lost blood. they called me about 330 and I was hunting with the wife Soni called my tracking partner he was loading up off another track and was heading that way. Got a call from his wife that his dog was bad sick so cancelled out to deal with that. I ended up going up there got there about 7 last night walked the dog into the shot sight. Choose to run my puppy which was t a bad decision but she did start off real sure of what we was doing. Finally got her dialed in and up the mountain we went. Through the line thicket out the other side and still going straight up. Got a huge dead fall white oak I was hoping he was in but he wasn't. She turned and we went around the side of the mountain across 2 hollers. Total we got to a 1000 yards the last 400 was no blood before we called it. I don't think there is a bullet in the body cavity or we would have never made itto the top of the mountain. Or they jumped him in the initial search and he left the country.i feel like he's alive and well.

He was killed next day not to far from where he was missed

Got on one last night for a 6 yo young man. Deer was shot through both front knees with a 300 black out. We started out at the hit sight and the struggle began dog was not a whole lot interested in it.
We tracked for about 450 yards and kept finding decent blood and a wound bed every so often. We are in big year old clear cut headed into a swamp. We get to the edge of the clear cut I heard him get up and you could tell he wasn't doin good. I jumped him three times in the swamp I heard him crossing a creek. (Steep banks, pretty deep and cold). Dog took me to the creek. everybody caught up to us and I we saw laying on the bank on the other side in a cane patch looking at us. It was dang sure a group effort from everybody on the track. That lil feller and the whole camp was aho nuff proud for him. I was sho nuff glad we put it on the tailgate for him . Total distance was about 800 yards which was crazy with him running on nubs

Just got backed from checking on what I'm fairly sure was a low shot and got the back of the front leg found some longer white and brown hair. Couple chunks of meat. Found the first drop of blood at about 250 stayed on that for about 150 more and then dogs just kinda give it up. So pretty sure hes alive and well

I'm fixin to rant a lil this is for all hunters. If you call a tracker and they agree to bring in a dog don't keep calling other trackers and then call the one you already got lined up that cut his family time short to come help your no shooting ass out and tell him you don't need him after he has got his gear on dogs loaded and halfway to you cause somebody else said they 10 mins closer

Add their number to a black list in your phone.......List them as "Asshole #1"

Actually they won't be no 1 it's already taken they will be about no 5

Or the ones that call you to come and help and then just go silent while you have turned down another track and wasted your evening. You never hear from them again to later find out they kept looking and found the deer or just decided not to even look. Happened more than once this season, last night actually...

I had that happen earlier in the year. Guy text we text back and forth told I was hunting and would come out after I come out of the woods and he said that would be fine and we left it as I would call him on the way home to get loaded up and head out. He went dark on me and I ain't heard from him since. Never saw a post on either Facebook group about any ody else taking or what the outcome was. even in the text something just seemed off and kinda sketchy I kinda wonder if it wasn't a set up either by the game warden or if they had something else in mind

Turned both off mine out on the 6 point I killed this morning. First time to run them off lead and together. I figured I would have a dog fight when they found it. But they got along wasn't much to.it about 50-60 yards and it was a one lung liver slight quartered 2 shot