The question isn’t “How many did you shoot at and not recover”……The question is "How many of those you shot at ended up dying because of it?" There’s actually been some studies done on this. It showed that something like 91% or 93% of deer not recovered by bowhunters end up living.

This is what it looks like when a bowhunter misses a little too far forward. This deer was tracked and lived but killed later. This was the original wound.



This is what it looks like when a gun hunter misses the same way…..This deer was tracked, bayed, and dispatched. Big difference in the amount of trauma caused by a gun versus a bow on marginal shots.