So if you have been bow hunting long enough you have experienced the waiting game after a questionable shot. Our goal as responsible bow hunters is to harvest and animal with an accurate shot providing a quick clean kill. The truth is that a small percentage of the time there is a chance that this doesn’t happen. A less than perfect shot that prevents the animal from expiring as quickly as we like. The unfortunate truth is we don’t always recover that animal. This small percentage occurrence bothers the hunter, the shooter more than anyone. Knowing that you have injured and animal and not been able to quickly and cleanly kill it after the shot will eat at you the rest of the season . Whitetail deer are strong resilient animals and many deer have been found at the local butcher shop with broadheads lodged inside or old wounds healed over. The truth is we as hunters don’t always know what happen to that deer we didn’t recover. Sometime we catch trail camera pictures or we see the animal on the hoof or we never see them again. It will happen to all bow hunters at some point if you hunt long enough. We don’t like it, we don’t enjoy it and you can’t explain the sleepless nights or the feelings you have, until you have done it. We can only hope, the animal will heal to live on to be found someday down the road at the local butcher shop with that wound healed