CarJunkieLS1
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As the title states my wife shot her first deer today and it didn't go exactly as planned. It was 6:30 am and a little doe (no spots) walks in on us. My wife slowly raises her rifle as the deer is walking away from us. Its ~35yds standing still quartering away very hard and she fires.
I saw the doe flinch and run with its tail down so I know she hit it. We wait 25-30min and go find where she shot it. We find hair and very little blood. We track the blood for 40yds and then we find a big pool of blood. Follow the trail for another 100yds or so and the blood is getting less and less and eventually dries up.
I call a friend who is way more experienced than us and he doesn't find blood we just fan out and grid search for the doe. About 3 hrs later I jump the doe and it runs through a fence across the street and into a field. Doe had blood on its left side shoulder and had a little limp but otherwise was fine. IMO it will live but we feel horrible she literally cried. I feel like it is my fault as I had a better angle and could've easily put it down. I'm almost positive with the angle she had and where she said she aimed that it was just a grazing because of the severe angle.
Just wanted her to get her first deer and this happens. Heart Broken at this point
I saw the doe flinch and run with its tail down so I know she hit it. We wait 25-30min and go find where she shot it. We find hair and very little blood. We track the blood for 40yds and then we find a big pool of blood. Follow the trail for another 100yds or so and the blood is getting less and less and eventually dries up.
I call a friend who is way more experienced than us and he doesn't find blood we just fan out and grid search for the doe. About 3 hrs later I jump the doe and it runs through a fence across the street and into a field. Doe had blood on its left side shoulder and had a little limp but otherwise was fine. IMO it will live but we feel horrible she literally cried. I feel like it is my fault as I had a better angle and could've easily put it down. I'm almost positive with the angle she had and where she said she aimed that it was just a grazing because of the severe angle.
Just wanted her to get her first deer and this happens. Heart Broken at this point