A couple of weeks ago in a thread titled Drifting through life between salmon season and deer, I mentioned that my son had hit a 5x5 bull elk with an arrow and not gotten it. Here is the rest of the story.
During the rest of the season, my son located and stalked that same herd and same bull twice. The bull was more wary and was not as vocal. That's not surprising since it had been hit with an arrow.
He saw it and got into long bow range once, but never had a shot good enough to take. I kept hoping he would kill the same bull so we could see where the original arrow had nicked it.
We are glad that the bull is OK. Like many hunters, we prefer a quick sure kill or a clean miss, rather than a wounded animal. On this one, the wound was so minimal that it never seemed to affect the bull at all, other than two tiny drops of blood and a pinch of cut hair.
Agreed, Ya cant complain about that :shrug: