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Sounded like a great adventure! We are not used to you not coming back with something.
Most of us have gone through that at one time or another. I feel bad for you, especially on a nice buck like that.

Right on Roy. Great story and photos. Way to make a comeback. Ed F

Thanks for sharing the adventure with us!!

Great hunt Roy. Tough hunts always make us better bowhunters. If you play the game long enough stuff like this happens. Arrows can do some funny stuff when they strike the chest cavity at severe angles. I really enjoyed all the pictures! Thanks for all the help you've been.

Great post Roy. It is awesome to see your trip and I felt like I was riding those highs and lows right along with you. I appreciate the way you tell it like it is good or bad. Integrity like yours is something that a few hunters have forgot about.

Thanks for sharing.

oakbrush

Roy, very much enjoyed the pics and reading about your adventure. Great country you guys got into. Makes me think back on some of my pack in trips.
To bad about not recovering the buck, you did your best. Glad to hear the buck is doing OK.

Yeah that does suck to loose a nice buck mainly because who hard you worked for that deer all that hiking amd to know it's injured. Same thing happened to a friend of mine he arrowed a deer and he couldn't find it he came back down from the mountain and called me after I got out of work we went back up there looking and never found the deer. But I guess there's always next year.

Looks like some beautiful country! I loved the story thanks for taking the time to post it for us!

You're an amazing hunter. Don't beat yourself up over it too much. I found a beauty 4x4 (heck they're all beauty's to me) laying dead just a few yards off a forest road in Idaho one year. It makes you wonder how many deer are lost each year.

Like others said, if it does end up dead it certainly won't go to waste. Nature will take it's course.

It's hunters like you that give guys like me the motivation to be a better hunter. Thanks for sharing and keep up the great hunting. You truly make mule deer hunting a sport.

Absolutly love the pics. That is awsome country. Sorry to hear about your loss but it happpens to alot of us. I have never been to Colorado hunting. Is that an over the counter tag or draw? Would love to hunt somewhere like that one day.