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She read the script and followed it to a T. Bulletproof set up. Tons of cover and a slight evening thermal pulling behind me away from the clover plot. 2 jump out about 6:30 from the opposite side of me and pick away and work over toward the corner where my tree was located over the next 15 or so minutes and settle in to about 27 yards. Totally calm conditions and deer. Settle into my anchor with her quartering to and got my pin right on the inside of the shoulder blade toward her mid line. A shot I have taken many times and it is devastating. Get a clean release and I couldn't believe how hard she ducked that early in the season in those conditions. Clean pass right through the back strap. I had a bad feeling before I climbed down knowing I landed high but was hopeful for maybe a little lung. Get to the arrow and its just a little blood and meat in the broadhead as well as the fletching. Typical just gut punch when you know exactly what happened. Track VERY spotty red blood (not a single bubble) over the next 2 hours and make it about 150 yards from the shot where it just peters out. It's bow hunting and it isn't the first or the last time it will happen to me. But it is soooooo frustrating when a plan works out perfectly and you get that shot and something like that happens. For no reason at all!! 2nd year in a row on that farm that some just nonsense happens early in the season... place is cursed...
 
Watched a YouTube bow hunt the other day.. deer was no farther than 40 yards . Shooter said damn I shot high.. I slowed the video down and the deer dropped instantly when he let go. It was opening day in Kentucky, he still got lucky and hit the top of the lung on the opposite side since he was in a tree.
 
I think anyone who has bow hunted and shot a deer has had it happen at least once. I had a doe drop and turn at 25 yards. It was a perfect quartering away shot that you always want. I was shooting spitfire broadheads back then. She dropped turning towards me and whack! It hit her right in the shoulder blade. Never did find her. The last buck I shot with a bow was walking and he never flinched till the arrow hit him. Died within 50 yards.
Don't beat yourself up over it. It happens and will probably happen again sometime.
 
Below is a doe year after I shot her, wearing a scar on each side where the arrow went through. From the ground, broadside, 20yds away. She didn't move a wink. Arrow hit right where I aimed. She simply didn't die. I tracked her darn near a mile. I assumed she must have dropped and maybe I skinned her back. It wasn't until she began showing up on camera again that I realized the shot was good. She just didn't die. That scar was on both sides and clearly shows where the 2" broad head entered & exited. I'd assume that should have been both lungs and liver but I guess not??? There are no rules in bow hunting. Sometimes the animal just refuses to die.
 

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Below is a doe year after I shot her, wearing a scar on each side where the arrow went through. From the ground, broadside, 20yds away. She didn't move a wink. Arrow hit right where I aimed. She simply didn't die. I tracked her darn near a mile. I assumed she must have dropped and maybe I skinned her back. It wasn't until she began showing up on camera again that I realized the shot was good. She just didn't die. That scar was on both sides and clearly shows where the 2" broad head entered & exited. I'd assume that should have been both lungs and liver but I guess not??? There are no rules in bow hunting. Sometimes the animal just refuses to die.
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