OK guys, got a chance to go out this weekend and fill a doe tag-took ya'll advise/instruction and changed my aim point-doe came in 30 min before dark and gave me a quartering away angle at 15 yards-she knew something was up and started to stomp, so I let it fly...immediately I saw blood and felt like I hit her a bit too high but I took the perspective of "TRYING TO AIM WHERE THE EXIT WOULD BE JUST BEHIND THE OFF SIDE LEG"...she ran about 60 yards and I heard her pile up! EASY tracking job and recovery...so maybe since I was evelated the angle I was shooting from made the entry seem higher than it should have been? Anyway, Success!!
upon processing this deer I found some "spots" in the fatty tissue along the spinal column...quick internet search says "hemal nodes...harmless" but has anyone else seen these? We are starting to see CWD in the general area and the deer this year are looking a bit thinner than usual, but the browse has been sparce.
First off, perfect shot, execution and recovery. Congratulations.
Secondly, don’t buy into the CWD scare. While I would avoid eating a sickly looking deer, there around 535,000 deer shot in the state every year and have been for several years, if not decades.
You can’t tell em one of them didn’t have CWD. I can’t promise I’ve never eaten an animal with CWD.
The deer that started this whole mess was a perfectly healthy deer that ran itself into a fence. Showed zero signs of infection.
The second deer was a yearling spike that was shot by a youth hunter whose dad thought the check station was mandatory. If he hadn’t stopped that deer would have been eaten and nobody would have been the wiser.
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
Excellent shot. Yes elevated stand will give a angled shot the closer the shot is, so at 15 yards or closer the angle will be higher than further out. Entry if a flat shot is too high, but being that it is elevated the exit point is perfection.
Always makes me laugh when i see deer hanging and see how far down the shoulder drops. Initially thought the entry was way far back. But exit was perfect so definitely an artifact of the shoulder hanging.
Good job. Only way to learn is to do it. When you shoot enough, the thoughts of how high and far back become second nature and just become part of the mental process you just do.
