re: Finding blood

I shot a doe last year I couldn't find. No blood anywhere ( hard to see at night in wet pine straw) but I know I hit her. She was old and had a white face. Would see her every hunt and saved her for my kids to shoot. Had my 6 yr old in the stand with me and he begged me to shoot her. I did and we couldn't find anything. Never saw that deer again and it makes me sick to think about.

Later that year I shot a doe that ended up dying trying to cross a deer creek. Water was about 4' deep where she was jammed against a log. Temps in the 30s I almost abandoned her there. On the phn with my dad he reminded me that I shot her for meat, and I owe it to her and everyone else to recover her. That fricking water was cold