That deer actually didn’t make it 100 yards……The hunter shot it right at dark and knew he’d hit it farther back than he meant to so he just backed out immediately and we met him the next morning. He didn’t actually need a tracking dog but it’s just one of those situations where you never know for sure until after you track it and he decided to play it conservatively. Its easy to look at it now and know what we know…..Before hand though all we had to go on is that it was getting dark and it was hit way back. In my opinion the hunter did the right thing after the shot. He could have went in there the night before and found it dead himself but he could have also just as easily went in there and jumped it…..which happens A LOT.
But to your point about “if he’d started the arrow 6” further up”……I’m sure that was probably his intention, but like I was saying…..those groupings arent nearly as tight for most folks when shooting at the real thing…..and why I suggest giving your self the wiggle room of dropping back “4 inches”.
