re: How many big game animals have you shot that were never recovered.

Dad came in this year from squirrel hunting claiming something was wrong with his shotgun. Said it was off, he was missing the squirrels. We got out some paper and patterned it. It was dead on.

I then reminded him that he used to kill 300 squirrels a year and now we only got maybe once or twice a year. Add to the fact that we didn't do much duck hunting last year. He had just gotten rusty.