rstallings1979
Senior Member
Maybe 100 to 120 yards from the initial contact. Yeah we would have due to the amount of blood but the deer would have likely taken a while to bleed out and would have suffered longer (he hit him low with no vitals really being hit) and coyotes would have found him pretty quick I bet. He had no use at all of his front part of his body so he was using his back legs to flop around.
It was a 125-150 yard shot, I also mistakenly said "it is a monster" causing him to get even more nervous, and he hasn't practiced much this year until that day. He just hit him low in that front shoulder and it was a downward trajectory causing it to miss the vitals and luckily it hit the other leg on the exit as well so he could not go far. It was also warm and we were worried about the meat if we let him lay too long. He shoots a 7mm-08 youth model and the way this stand is built with small window openings I have no room to put it in a good rest or vice for him. The good news is he didn't have time for buck fever to set in lol. The deer stepped out and 8 seconds later he was having to take the shot at him. I suspect if he had to watch him for any length of time his nerves would have gotten the best of him. They would have mine at that age.
