Long Range hunting versus bowhunting wound loss rates?

[ftrovato]

My last bow kill , was perfect double lung , and it got into the heavy brush and cactus
Left him overnight and my wife’s wiener dog was turned loose on the trail the next morning, and luckily the coyotes and hogs hadn’t found him and the wiener dogs did
I gave up on bow hunting after that

I'm on the same page.

I had so many friends calling me out after dark or early in the morning to help them look for wounded deer that I decided to start telling them to stop calling me since I was giving up the sport.

I can go dove hunting instead... ;-)

 

[skydiver386]

My last bow kill , was perfect double lung , and it got into the heavy brush and cactus
Left him overnight and my wife’s wiener dog was turned loose on the trail the next morning, and luckily the coyotes and hogs hadn’t found him and the wiener dogs did
I gave up on bow hunting after that

I gotta get me one of these!

 

[deewayne2003]

I spent this entire weekend guiding bow hunters and it's such a pain that I've sworn it off after having 6 deer hit and only 3 recovered and one of those was only recovered because buzzards located it for us.

I haven't lost a deer bow hunting, but I limit my shots to 20ish yards and even then I've had some interesting recoveries with boiler room hits, when mortally wounded deer decide to smite me by running off the side of a cliff before they die.

Every time that happens I'm reminded of what an old Choctaw Indian told me many years ago while we were practicing with our bows.......

"When Indians found out about rifles they quit this shit!"