i feel sick that she suffered.
I also wasn't the first to find her, some coyotes did too and helped themselves to a hind quarter and some of the guts, so field dressing her was real fun and pleasant. I am glad I found her, she bleed pretty good for a gut shot but it was sporadic and usually streaks on a leaf here and there and I just kept checking trails and finding bits of blood and kept going. I finally found where she crossed a 4 wheeler trail which was by a standing corn field, so I figured she went in there and bedded down right away and would be in there dead. I kept checking fence crossings and trails leading up to them and found some sign where she went in, but rather than going into the corn to went to the right and died on the edge of it right in the open. I am glad I found her. I am sick with the shot I made, sick that I let myself get tunnel vision with the camera being on my mind, and sick that the coyotes got her as well. I think I can salvage the front shoulders and one hind quarter. Interesting enough she was stone cold when I found her so I think she died fairly fast.
The one positive was I was proud of myself for finding her with a semi difficult blood trail, I think a lot of people might have given up. My next option was to call in a blood tracker, I was in contact with two of them last night and was making arrangements in case I couldn't find her on my own.
Her good side
She crossed by the cedar tree in the background, it looks like a long ways but it was only 20 yards maybe 30
how I found her
stupid coyotes, stupid shot on me
