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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dirty" data-source="post: 331204" data-attributes="member: 6535">After reading the story, I can tell KDM has been through a lot of what I have over the past 30 years both after my own shots or the shots of others…and I’m sure you can add a decade or three of experience on to that. You learn a lot after making mistakes after the shot and you add It all up over the years to avoid repeating those mistakes. The ability to look things up on the internet and learn from the lessons of others is as an additional aid these days. It is quite a blessing to have an experienced tracker when on your first trail. Without KDM, this buck would likely not have been recovered. I’m really glad Logan found his deer and to be perfectly honest I think dealing with a less than perfect hit serves the most benefit as early in a hunting career as possible. It should shape every shot and tracking job from that point forward into the future. There is absolutely nothing that I would have done differently given these circumstances, from the questions that were asked to the backing out and waiting all day to the hands and knees trailing as long as possible. Having multiple people trailing instead of one is also of huge benefit. So many lessons were learned and it is very fortunate the ending was as ideal as it could be, because often it is not. This type of hit along with a straight stomach shot are about as bad as it gets for archery, and the most painful part about it for the hunter is it is so close in distance to the perfect shot…a game of inches and even more than that it is a game of angles. I’ve lost a lot of sleep over hits like this. I commend the patience and resilience you three showed here. This is decades of experience for some people all rolled into a week. It’s tremendous. It’s unbelievable actually. Well done.Logan, use the internet to really study deer anatomy and moving forward, remember all of those questions and items KDM was inquiring about. What happens from the point of impact through the moment you lose sight of the deer tells a huge story that can dictate the rest of the process. It is not always easy or even possible to gather all of that info but whatever is available is of huge benefit. Of course, a pounding heart beat, watery eyes, shaking knees, etc. sometimes make it hard to gather or even remember what you saw…and the second guessing creeps in and you wonder if you really saw what you think you saw. I still deal with that and wouldn’t trade it for anything!Time for another celebratory Busch Light! J/k. Well, not really. I just cracked it. Also it sounds like happycamper wants us to get a waterfowl hunt together. That would be sweet especially since you now have more decoys than I do!!!Actually I have all the field decoys a guy would need as well, so land or water would be quite feasible.</blockquote>

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