All bow.
1st one i was young, and gut shot it. Deer went down within 40 yds...my lack of knowledge sent me after the deer. I spooked it, and never found it.
2nd I hit limb or something and arrow kicked and hit in a non-lethel spot. No organs hit.
3rd i miss judged yardage and shot high, just under spine. Gave deer 5 hours, with no pushing, and never found deer...again non-lethel shot.
Now, as i have said, thats 3 more deer then i care too...every single on of those deer made me sick. I have seen countless deer shot with a gun, that had bad shots made on them, run off and never found. I have found several on our farm that were gut shot from the neighbors that are blindly shooting at "brown" as they call it. With my bow i have succesfully harvested a great deal of deer with my bow. Like i have said, shot placement is everything, no matter with a gun or a bow. I pfrefer a bow over gun all day long...thats my choice and ill stick by it. I think a bow or a gun in the hands of the correct individual is going to be just as lethel. SHOT PLACEMENT SHOT PLACEMENT SHOT PLACEMENT.
Loosing the deer i have has only made me a better hunter and shooter...i have learned from my mistakes and learned what shots to not take, and what things to pay more attention to whats going on.
And for the record i have killed deer with a gun too, all went down very fast, except one i liver shot when i was 14. It ran about 300-400 yards.
As stated above, sorry for the sidetrack action.