Yes I made a bad shot once too.i dispatched it with a second shot,but like you said I hated the sound it made,that's hunting sometimes I guess.it happens

 

Yes I spine shot a doe that ducked my string at 18 steps. She set there an bleated/wailed. I got down as fast as I could an finished her off. It was the worst sound I've ever heard. Like strait pain/terror wails. Can still remember the sound to this day.

 

The doe I shot Saturday made the same noise. I shot her again. I've heard it several times. The worst I think was when I was helping another member on here track a doe on Rick Evans a few years ago. We finally caught up to her and he had to put her down with a knife to the heart. She wailed. I think it took a little out of both of us. Certainly not ideal, but it happens.

 

The doe I shot Tuesday night did the same thing. At the shot, she made a horrible wail and fell to the ground. But she only made it 5 more yards and then didn't move any more. It helped knowing that less than 10 seconds after the shot, she was dead. Aside from them dropping in their tracks, that was the quickest kill I've had.

 

This is a big part of why I take the neck shot...you either miss, or do so much damage, they drop in their tracks! If you miss the spine or juggler vein, they will recover quickly.

 

Heard it several times. It's disheartening for sure. But, I think it's good to have a stinging reminder sometimes that we are extinguishing a life when we pull the trigger.

On a side note, the little fawn I cut out of a hwy fence last month was making the same noise. Luckily, I was able to prolong that life instead of take it.

 

Yes and a buck will make it also.

 

I heard it on my first bow kill. She ducked my arrow and got a spine shot. My dad was beside me filming. I had a crossbow and shot her again to make it stop.....it didnt. Had to get down and use my knife. I was 15.
Needless to say I didn't hunt much for the rest of that year.

 

I've heard deer do it. I've never shot one myself that did. It will stick with ya for sure.

 

Didn't hear the noise but had to finish off a few last year definitely not the way u want it to end

 

I'd hate for my kids to see it at a young age. It could turn somebody off to hunting.

 

I was dog hunting down in south Mississippi when I was younger and the dogs ran a yearling into a fence and ended up catching it. I made in there first and the deer appeared to be dead. Not moving I grab it by the legs and throw it over the fence. Start dragging it back to the truck and that thing let out a bellow so loud I dropped it and almost had a heart attack

 

Heard one screaming in the middle of the night at Bell Slough....bushes shaking and a big commotion....spooky place at 3 am..

 

I'm betting most people that have double digit bow kills have unfortunately heard the sound. I've done it at least once that I can remember. She ducked the string and I broke her spine. Unfortunately when she fell she wasn't where I could get any additional shots from the stand. I climbed down as fast as possible to finish her off.

It definitely will stick with you. If it doesn't then you may have issues.

 

Been there, heard that. It'll wrench at your heart if you have any emotions at all.

I spined a big doe one morning and she started in with that pitiful sound. Ended up shooting her two more times in quick succession to get her dead as quick as possible.

 

Spine shots ar the worst. You know its bad when your buddy hunting about 300 yards away texts you and says. "Well i guess you made a bad shot lol"

 

I've never heard that sound from any deer I've shot. but I never use rage broadheads either ....

opcorn:

I know , I know, it can happen with any BH or bullet depending on the hit.
Sorry you had to hear it OP. be glad deer don't make the sound a pig does

 

First deer I ever killed did it. It was awful. My grandpa was with me and he was afraid I'd never shoot another one. It took me till all of the next day. But it is a pitiful sound.

 

I friend of mine took his 14 yr old daughter and she spine shot a doe. It started that sound. He ended up having to cut it's throat. She was crying and I don't think she has hunted since.

 

In my 20s I hunted a few times in New Edinburg with a family that owned land there.
Dad only had one rule no huntin around the house. Brothers got up each day and told each other where they would be hunting and parted way until dinner at 12.
I was the guest and happy to be set out anywhere on the place no one choose to be for that round.{they had closed Camp Robinson and I had no back up plan if I remember correctly.}
They set me in a stand not far from the rd /gate where we had driven in in a patch of red oaks that were huge trees and I could see for ever from the stand .



Then this happens after 10 min in the stand ...as many as 5 to 10 young nannys ran right under my tree like they were playing a game of some sort .Back and forth chasing like dogs in the yard do and my stand was home base. Then they all took off as fast as the had shown up.I was trying wrap my mind around it when I heard the noise your describing so close I felt I should be able to see it, so I climbed down and one of the deer seems to be hung in a snare ....lots a of flipping and flopping and screaming
Walked to where she was and looked it over the thing wrapped in an old ,old fence.Now shes cutting her self up good so I grabbed a limb and shoved it in the fence as close to her as I could get and started twisting{papa showed me this trick when I used to open gates for him } eventually the wires broke and she was free .

 

I friend of mine took his 14 yr old daughter and she spine shot a doe. It started that sound. He ended up having to cut it's throat. She was crying and I don't think she has hunted since.

different species, after incredible begging and whining I took my younger brother dove hunting. First dove down and he raced to fetch it only to refuse to give it to me because it was still alive??....He refused to listen to the "put it out of its misery speach." The dove had a hastily build cage and suffered for two days before it passed. He went hunting with me one more time but read a book the entire time in the goose blind. Never hunted again.

 

I've heard a deer do it a time or two. I shot a fox last year with my bow and it let out a terrible sound after I shot it, like a puppy that is hurting. It was a bit disturbing.

 

Year before last, I spined a doe at 30 yards and she let out a couple of loud bellows. I shot her twice more from the stand and had to get down to finish her off. She just would not die! Very tough animals sometimes. Two years later, I still feel bad about that!!!

On a side note, she called in a six pt. that came in to investigate with me standing next to her.

 

I shot a doe one time and she dropped, leaned her head up, and made a loud moan and fell over dead..I felt bad abt it for a little while but she died so fast it was like her last yell to her friends saying RUN!!!

 

I shot a nice buck a few years ago right after daylight and he crawled out the pipeline , got down a few hours later he had was still alive shot he two more times 300wsm . I load him up and get home sucker is trying to stand up in back of my truck so I hit him with a shop hammer and go pic my gf up who is hunting down the road in another spot. We get back and I start cleaning him and have almost all the skin off and sucker starts floping like a fish almost falls off the skinning pole! Needless to say that was one of the worst feelings I ever felt as a hunter.