quote:

Originally posted by Atkinson:
AZ makes a good point, I can't tell you the number of times a hunter has come to the house and said he couldn't recover a deer he shot, even some experienced hunters so I send a Mexican to help find or track the deer and in many if not most the deer is about right were it was shot. The terrain can change dramatically when you get there, and the further the shot the more difficult, particulary in Mesquite, Sage, or Greasewood..Ive seen this happen even in grass with Pronghorns..About all I can suggest is mark you kill by a bush or whatever is different, that's always worked for me but on a few occasions it had a degree of difficulty as anyone can tell you..

Hey, it happened to me in Scotland a few years ago. Shot at 350 or so, heard the bullet hit, stag takes off running, shot him again with a super long Hail Mary - three of us saw it tip over at the shot, but after searching in long grass for an hour, it was too dark. We found him the next morning. We shot him from on a mountain looking down, and even though it was long grass and the stalker was really familiar with the place, when we got down there it was difficult to figure out exactly where he was.

Last fall when I was moose hunting in AK we called a moose from the side of a mountain. I ranged him at 1000 yards. Guide tried to pull him but no dice, so we moved down to him. What looked like flat terrain with short brush was anything but when we got down there. We had no idea where he was exactly.