My 7 year old son, Emory, shot a nice 8 point right at dark in late October with a crossbow. The lighted nock didn’t work, so I wasn’t sure where he’d hit the buck. We never found blood, the bolt, or anything that evening. We grid searched the nearby cutover/longleaf plantation the next day as well without ever finding any sign of a hit on the buck. After no more game camera pictures of the buck over the next week or so, I felt sure the buck was dead out in the thick cutover. We continued to look for buzzards as time went on, but they never gave us any hints…After burning this week, my Dad and I walked through the longleafs yesterday and we found Emory’s buck about 150 yards from the shot site. I always thought the buck had ran to the East after he was shot at, but he went straight North instead…I started to call in a tracking dog, but I didn’t have anything to verify a hit on the buck. Hindsight’s always 20/20 🤬
Question out of curiosity... what was the date he shot the buck?
