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    HELP NO BLOOD

    This is a really interesting perspective I hadn’t considered. Spent this week so far going over everything and figuring out necessary changes and that actually makes a ton of sense. Especially really really close in… thanks!
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    The convicted poachers always seem to stick to together…..

    I am “one of the dumb” but it seems to me that hunting influencers have found themselves in a strange loophole for commercial hunting. I understand the wild differences of scale but it’s interesting to me that the need to produce animals incentivizes crappy behavior regardless of the mechanism...
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    HELP NO BLOOD

    I am absolutely positive that’s the entrance wound. Though I think you have the right idea the more I think about it, forward hit on a shallow angle. I hope he’s alive, he was magnificent.
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    Wow I am with you on the how of that shot. Tree stand maybe? But even then it seems like an intensely strange angle… it’s hard to imagine how that arrow would work its way back out too, I would have to assume that gets infected but I also kind of wonder if it’s a crossbow bolt? If it’s a bolt I...
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    HELP NO BLOOD

    I was wondering about this. Look, it’s entirely possible he moved in the moment just before I fingered the release, and that my perception got warped. But that said, I would swear to you both I can see it clearly in my minds eye how he spun, almost like a rodeo bull. Now what I will say is I...
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    HELP NO BLOOD

    Thanks for the full response, I learned a lot. Truly. Shot him Sunday and by Wednesday with no sign of him I thought about going out for the last day, having felt like I truly gave it my all to find him. Just didn’t feel right, not because of a one animal one tag type of principle, but because...
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    HELP NO BLOOD

    This nails my experience 200%… when I let that arrow go my blood was ice cold and I was positive to my core I had done every single thing correctly, and I was so incredibly wrong. I have more than enough technical ability to pull of a frontal shot, but unfortunately it’s only now in retrospect...
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    HELP NO BLOOD

    Sorry, I’m here! Was still in the field until yesterday. I was prowling around here when back in service looking for any and all advice but was having some degree of trouble figuring out how to post coherently as I am new to the posting thing, usually I just read forums and articles. I didn’t...
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    HELP NO BLOOD

    Reading this was revelatory to me, thanks for writing. I pulled out on my bull simply because I thought it was best practice to let him go. Thinking back on it now I realize this was probably my single biggest error. I made a lot of assumptions that led me to believe he just needed a few mins to...
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    HELP NO BLOOD

    Checked all the known water and surrounding areas like a hawk, birds took me to plenty of dead elk but not mine. By day three my utter despondency at having lost and wasted him started to turn into a weird type of distilled hope he may have lived, because I am virtually convinced I would have...
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    HELP NO BLOOD

    Thanks to everyone who responded. Spent 4 days looking for him to no avail. It may take me the ten years of reaccruing bonus points to get over this one, or maybe I never will.
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    HELP NO BLOOD

    yeah, I had been wildly opposed to that shot for a long time but sortof got talked into it’s viability during my research for this hunt. Believe me it’s the first and only one I’ll take. I really was convinced he was so close there was no way he could move. Wildly underestimated their speed...
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    HELP NO BLOOD

    Running the grid now, hoping to turn him up but I am just so shook at the absolute lack of blood. And the whole notion of tracking one elk by hoof prints in here is simply not going to work, I have a dozen bulls and goodness knows how many cows in the same field… think 800 yard radius is enough?
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    HELP NO BLOOD

    Good reading skills dude.
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    HELP NO BLOOD

    This morning I went to shoot a bull head on at 15 yards, he whirled as I punched it and I caught him somewhere between broadside and quartering well away. It’s hard for me to say exactly the angle he was at as he was moving. The arrow broke off on the nearest tree he hit, about four inches of...

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