I can also assure everyone that there was no 110 yard shots taken. No one should ever take a shot like that! Especially on a deer of this caliber, but also on any deer. Even if you're the best shot in the World, too much can happen over the time it takes to get there.
This deer was shot at an ethical distance by a proficient archer (myself) and was mortally wounded. The angle was steep quartering away, and I didn't get quite as much penetration as I would have liked. So I decided to back off that night, (it was shortly before sunset) and go in for him the next morning.
I brought two close friends in the next day. We found one drop of blood on the dry prairie grass, that was it. The carcass was about 800 yards downhill from that blood spot. So my assumption is that it was a liver hit.
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