A good shot doesn't always mean a short recovery

[glenbo]

Congratulations Tim. Great deer and story.

[Tim]

Hey Jim......I uploaded another pic for you showing the entry.

[Huntrdfk]

Wow, great job Tim by you and Cathy. These animals amaze me, she has left her genes and lessons to her offspring, I am sure you meet some of them in the future.
Great hunt, and thanks for sharing.

David

[Stump73]

Congratulations! I'm glad you finally got her. She was very smart.

[Big Ed]

Well done buddy!

[John Scifres]

What organs did you hit?

Thanks for the story.

[Longbow58]

Nice recovery Tim, way to stay on her. Congrats.

[Kopper1013]

Big doe, congrats!!! Glad it worked out for you and her.

I feel all archers will fall victim to the tenacity of a whitetail at some point or another, mix that with a not perfect shot and the out come can be far less than satisfying. Many of deer have been loss from single lung and liver shots. There was a story not to long ago on here where a nice buck survived like 4 days on a single lung.

[Bill Carlsen]

Looks like a really nice doe. Good job. I shot an 8 point buck a few years ago right thru both lungs at last light. Because I was hunting in back of some houses I decided to come back in the morning thinking it would be a 10 minute trail. Well, the arrow failed to pass all the way thru hitting the off side shoulder. And even though both lungs were center punched it took me four hours to find him and I walked by him several times as he was in a thick blueberry swamp/wetland area. Yes, they can be tenacious even with a "perfect" hit.

[Tim]

Hey John.....at that point in time Cathy and I where mentally drained and getting cold.  I didn't check out the organs to confirm what was hit and what was not.  By the looks of the angle it would appear that I had struck the left lung and exited low missing the heart.  No doubt a slight change of angle would have produced a move positive outcome.  As you're well aware, quite a bit can happen from the time of release to impact.   We were just glad to have found her.

[stiknstringer]

Nice going Tim,good karma too.  

[shedhunta]

Good job Tim!!!  She looks like a candidate for Honey bologna!!!

[Tater]

Tim,
 Congratulations on the doe, she deserved no less than the effort you and Cathy made for the recovery.
 
  The shot looks perfect,all we can do is our best.

[Bobaru]

This is a very instructive story.  Some say an older doe is much smarter than a mature buck.  That appears to be the case with her.  Without antlers, she is surely a trophy.

With the temperatures, I would have waited to the morning.  I have yet to loose one to coyotes, but it is possible.

[tracker12]

This is exactly why I shake my head when guys complain the the broad head did not do it job.  It was a perfect shot in there eyes.  Over the years I have said to myself shoot that was a bad shot to find to watch the deer fall in sight.  And others that looked perfect end like your or even word with no recovery.  

Very nice old doe.  Took my biggest doe ever in Western PA during the 1978 late Muzzy season.

Those left lung only hits can be brutal. Years back I helped with a similar hit, compound shooter with a muzzy, they came in on me while I was hunting. He decided to wait for morning as he was not sure of his hit, he said that he could not see it, must have been pretty dark. I found the deer for him, or what was left of it.  It traveled about 350 yards from the shot.  
 If your coyote numbers are anything like ours, you did the right thing.

[kat]

Congratulations Tim. You earned this one. Way to keep at it.    

[Izzy]

Way to go pal!

[KSdan]

Congrats.  Great story. . .  and an education once again for all of us.  Hard to believe how things can turn.  How different it could have been without snow.  Many stories/discussions come to my mind; the "void,"  "one lung", etc etc.  Some reality in all of it.

Dan in KS

[Orion]

Wow.  That shot placement should have taken out some major arteries above the heart, in addition to one lung.  Amazed she went that far.  Good job staying with it. Nice animal.