Agree with @TNLynn and @Ski. I'm not leaving one if I think I heard it crash and pretty sure I made a good shot. In the case of @philsanchez76 yesterday, I would have waited bc the arrow told a gut hit.
Around here, my best hunting is about 15 minutes before end of legal shooting.
That's the magic time. The last 2 bucks I've killed have been with a muzzleloader literally at the last minute of legal shooting light.
Oh man here we go again! I hope you found him already and are just making us wait cuz youre draggin or skinnin! mine from 2 days ago ended up being a perfect shot, just no blood and he went into an unbelievable thicket. the only meat I lost after 20 hours was the tenderloins. GL man!
Yea, I have been caught climbing down a few times. But after leaving a doe suffer all night after a bad shot some 23 years ago, I have avoided hunting last light unless I can stay out looking and field dressing. If I can't, or just don't feel like it, I get down and go home. I am not OCD, but if I have an animal down, I feel it is my responsibility to keep looking until I have exhausted every means to go after it. I have only lost one animal, which a hunting partner shot, a hog, tracked it for an hour or so at night until we came upon a creek that it went into, which was also the property line. With as much as I hear yotes at night at both of the places I currently hunt, there is no way they wouldn't find a deer if left over night.
Did he get a pic of it before it ran off?
