my daughter kate's weekend adventure

[jigglestick]

  Trying to match my son's great weekend, it was my daughter Katie's turn to hunt with her pop.
while she has less hunting experience, she has had much practice with her archery equipment, and a near miss on a doe two years ago with her grandpa. this past weekend was her first sit for the year.
  after seeing nothing on our first sit friday evening, my daughter had a dandy 6 point buck come into range saturday evening and we got to watch it for about ten minutes. it knew something was up though. our pop up blind, while well brushed out, just looked out of plac...e for that buck and he headed back off the field. that's where Kate got to take a standing broadside shot at 30 yards.
   after searching for the arrow, we discovered what I thought was a miss over the shoulde, turned out to be a hit. the arrow was bloody, tip to knock, but there was no blood to be found to give us direction. we did finaly find blood, 175 yards from the POI and there were only a half dozen drops and then again, nothing. with the clues we had, clear blood on the arrow, the razor edges were not marred (no bone contact), the lack of blood and the distance it went before we found blood and the distance we looked after finding blood, we all are in agreement that it was a non fatal hit.
   there are about a dozen trail cameras and I have about three minutes of good video on the buck, so, if he is still alive and in the neighborhood, we will see him again. I say it was a high, above the spine, below the skin, in line with the shoulder. Kate is bummed out, but again, this is one of those lessons about hunting that is tough to learn. we never want to see an animal wounded and left. if I thought it was a fatal hit, I'd still be looking. so, back to the targets to make sure there are no issues there, and then back to the field, cause that is where it all happens.

[JohnWester]

that's too bad. No doubt you'll see him again. if not now, for sure by black powder.

[lentz]

its hard to know if there going to duck but a tip i found on the internet is

20 yrds aim dead on
30 yrds aim at bottom of kill zone
and i would never shoot at a illert deer at 40 because of the risk