I honestly thought i missed him!

[cagleyss7]

7:45 am ... opening day of muzzleloader turned out to be a cool , calm november morning. First deer i see is this bruiser.. comes in from behind me over my right shoulder at about 60 yards. He gives me a shot.. BOOOOM.. the deer hops forward about 10 yards and stands there twitching his tail.. tail down, never flags, the deer simply walks forward.. away from me threw the woods.. never shot a deer that acted this way.. i thought for sure i had missed him... I'm absolutely calling myself every version of ignorant and unprepared i can think of.. telling my hunting buddies that i ruined a shot at a good buck for an hour before climbing down just to make sure... to my suprise i find blood.. and alot of it! Found him at the very bottom of the ridge.. took alot(almost 8 hours) to get him out but we got him!

 

[Grandslam11]

Great deer. Nearly the exact thing happened to me last year except I found little blood. I watched him walk out of sight and never even limp. He was piled up right over the ridge

 

[DoubleRidge]

Good deal! Congrats!

 

[backyardtndeer]

Nice buck. Congratulations.

 

[44 mag]

Great deer. Congratulations

 

[Mag]

Good on you for not writing him off and never even checking.

 

[BLOODTRAIL]

Great buck. It pays to check even if we think we missed.

 

[wsm]

Good looking buck ,congrats .

 

[Acorn]

Nice buck, Congrats!

 

[tree_ghost]

Nice one! Congrats!

 

[Volbuck777]

Great buck congratulations

 

[Hillbilly Hunter]

Awesome buck!

 

[dgolden]

Great buck. Congrats!!

 

[cbhunter]

Well done. Great buck, congrats

 

[batten_down]

8 hours. I'm hurting just reading that. Great buck, good job.

 

[Rob-HC Hunter]

Great deer!!

 

[gear192]

Nice Buck for sure

 

[PossumSlayer]

Awesome!

 

[pockets]

Awesome buck. Congrats.

 

[JAD]

Nice one! Was it a liver hit?