I found my arrow!

[deadeye]

Yesterday while stumbling through the woods looking down for the elusive grouse and up for any destructive porcupines, I found an arrow that I had shot into a deer two years ago. The arrow was over 200 yards from where my errant shot lodged in the rear leg of a doe. The reason for the bad shot was simple. I lined up my eye, the pin, and the spot on the doe but forgot to look through the peep sight. The deer ran off with my very visible lighted nock arrow. Not seeing any blood, I searched a wide area in the direction the doe had run but found nothing. I waited an hour or so until it was dark hoping to spot the lighted nock but was not able to locate it. I'm pretty sure the deer survived because I later had trail camera pictures of a doe with a noticeable wound in the same spot I had hit her. I also had numerous sightings of her feeding near my cabin. 

[Steve-o]

Very cool.  My daughter and I were tromping around the woods (about 15 years ago, or so) setting up a new stand and she found an arrow I had shot a couple of years before that.  I remember the shot, and the miss, like it was yesterday.

It was a late December morning sit, with big fluffy snowflakes falling - like a picture postcard.  (I took a picture with my camera, but it never looks as good.)  I standing on the ground that day, used a grunt call and two does came towards and by me out of range, back in the brush.  I waited a bit and figured, if it worked once, it might work twice.  I grunted again, and from, the direction the deer traveled, four came back!  I had a broadside shot, but the deer jumped the string and the arrow flew over the deer's back.