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<blockquote data-quote="PAWildcatter" data-source="post: 1730" data-attributes="member: 489"><p>Dave,</p><p></p><p>I had something similar happen to me this past season.</p><p></p><p>I hit a 7 pointer 2 out of 3 times @ 225 yds with a 338 WSM. </p><p></p><p>The deer didn't drop. He twitched his tail and walked away. I thought I missed, but couldn't figureout how I would have missed - standing broadside.</p><p></p><p>I went out and looked for blood (where I thought I was shooting) and didn't find a thing - that's cause I was looking at ~175 yards and not the 225 yard mark.</p><p></p><p>About 1 hour later, my buddy came crashing thru the woods on his quad and started pushing all kinds of deer to me. I watched 1 doe run by, she did a 180°, and started stalking something. Ears back & head down. By then, I was on 20x trying to figureout what was going on and trying to decide if I was going to drop the hammer on her. I could tell she was smelling something because, thru the scope, I could see the steam coming out of her snout. </p><p></p><p>I called my buddy on the Talkabout and asked, "can a deer smell a dead deer?" He said he'd seen it on a hunt in NC. I said, "I have a doe acting really strange out where I shot." I told him to walk into my shooting area, and that I'd stop him in the line where I shot and where the doe was.</p><p></p><p>Sure enough, the 7 pointer was dead in line where I shot, just 50 yards further back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PAWildcatter, post: 1730, member: 489"] Dave, I had something similar happen to me this past season. I hit a 7 pointer 2 out of 3 times @ 225 yds with a 338 WSM. The deer didn't drop. He twitched his tail and walked away. I thought I missed, but couldn't figureout how I would have missed - standing broadside. I went out and looked for blood (where I thought I was shooting) and didn't find a thing - that's cause I was looking at ~175 yards and not the 225 yard mark. About 1 hour later, my buddy came crashing thru the woods on his quad and started pushing all kinds of deer to me. I watched 1 doe run by, she did a 180°, and started stalking something. Ears back & head down. By then, I was on 20x trying to figureout what was going on and trying to decide if I was going to drop the hammer on her. I could tell she was smelling something because, thru the scope, I could see the steam coming out of her snout. I called my buddy on the Talkabout and asked, "can a deer smell a dead deer?" He said he'd seen it on a hunt in NC. I said, "I have a doe acting really strange out where I shot." I told him to walk into my shooting area, and that I'd stop him in the line where I shot and where the doe was. Sure enough, the 7 pointer was dead in line where I shot, just 50 yards further back. [/QUOTE]
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