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<blockquote data-quote="projp" data-source="post: 436789" data-attributes="member: 9992"><p>I was going to keep my mouth shut, but an incident similar to yours yesterday changed my mind. I took my nephew out on the youth deer hunt. He has never taken a deer and his dad was busy so off we went. We saw a lot of does and a veeery little spike. With about 15 minutes of light left we spotted a two point at about 200 yards. He is a pretty good shot and has practiced so I thought it was within his limits. At the shot he, (the deer), seemed to jump a little and I heard it hit. The deer then turned and and nonchalantly walked away presenting no followup shot. After the initial jump and, "whap", the deer showed absolutely no signs of being hit. We followed up and found the deer dead about 75 yards over the hill. He had made a great lung shot going between ribs on both sides.</p><p>Earlier in the year my buddy drew a mountain goat tag. Shortly before dark he shot at billy and we thought he hit it. We looked until dark and then got out the lights and looked some more. The next day we were there at first light and couldn't come up with any thing. We hunted the general area for 2 more days and eventually shot one about a 1/4 of a mile from where we saw the first one. I would like to believe that it was the same goat, (probably not), but at this point were were OK that we had done all we could on the first one. </p><p>Sorry if this comes across as a little preachy, but the reason I put a little more effort into taking care of the animals is that when i was younger there were times that I did not and later regrettred it.</p><p></p><p>Good hunting</p><p>Jeff</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="projp, post: 436789, member: 9992"] I was going to keep my mouth shut, but an incident similar to yours yesterday changed my mind. I took my nephew out on the youth deer hunt. He has never taken a deer and his dad was busy so off we went. We saw a lot of does and a veeery little spike. With about 15 minutes of light left we spotted a two point at about 200 yards. He is a pretty good shot and has practiced so I thought it was within his limits. At the shot he, (the deer), seemed to jump a little and I heard it hit. The deer then turned and and nonchalantly walked away presenting no followup shot. After the initial jump and, "whap", the deer showed absolutely no signs of being hit. We followed up and found the deer dead about 75 yards over the hill. He had made a great lung shot going between ribs on both sides. Earlier in the year my buddy drew a mountain goat tag. Shortly before dark he shot at billy and we thought he hit it. We looked until dark and then got out the lights and looked some more. The next day we were there at first light and couldn't come up with any thing. We hunted the general area for 2 more days and eventually shot one about a 1/4 of a mile from where we saw the first one. I would like to believe that it was the same goat, (probably not), but at this point were were OK that we had done all we could on the first one. Sorry if this comes across as a little preachy, but the reason I put a little more effort into taking care of the animals is that when i was younger there were times that I did not and later regrettred it. Good hunting Jeff [/QUOTE]
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