Re: Arrow away. Its been an hour...
[Re: Boco]
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11/21/20 07:17 PM
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Wolves gotta eat too-go get another one. I agree. After you give it your best effort, that’s all you can do.
I trap for fun. I skin 'em for the money! Grinners For Life-Lifetime Member, MO Chapter, Den #1 ~You Grin, You're In~
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Re: Arrow away. Its been an hour...
[Re: jbyrd63]
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11/21/20 09:27 PM
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Sounds like the blade just sliced the hide. If it was lungs he would be spraying occasionally as it fills the lungs and he snorts to clear them. That doesn't look like lung blood to me . The blood in the photo was the first spurt. The blood trail was one of the best I have followed, and a buddy who killed well over 70 deer was with me. When we started he was confident it was laying dead just over the next rise. Till it started waning... There was chunks of coagulated blood a few times the size of a deck of cards. When he stopped you could see two distinct blood marks. As in, two square feet per side.
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Re: Arrow away. Its been an hour...
[Re: Hutchy]
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11/21/20 09:31 PM
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Sounds like a deep flesh wound in front of the front shoulder.They bleed heavy at first then stop bleeding the further they go.Always bright red blood.
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Re: Arrow away. Its been an hour...
[Re: Bruce T]
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11/21/20 09:39 PM
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Sounds like a deep flesh wound in front of the front shoulder.They bleed heavy at first then stop bleeding the further they go.Always bright red blood. I should have taken pics. My buddy said lung was 100% hit, and every so often there were bubbles in it I watched the arrow go, and if I was a betting man I'd say 4" above the bottom of the deer, and 6-8" back from the leg crease. We figure one blade sliced the bottom of one lung, angle made it miss the second. Entry, exit. Explains it hacking out blood too. I generally aim too high with a bow, and corrected a bit to much I guess Here's a thought...next time I'll double lung it and show yall lol
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Re: Arrow away. Its been an hour...
[Re: Hutchy]
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11/21/20 10:07 PM
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It absolutely amazes me how tough deer can be. I hit a buck last year that I couldn’t find. Great blood at first with some bubbles, followed a heavy blood trail for 500 yards through thick brush, I even found where he fell off a ridge into a creek. He got back up, kept going, and I followed until there was no more blood. Searched for a couple days, but never found him. You could hit me anywhere with a broad head, and I wouldn’t run 5 feet, much less hundreds of yards lol. They are incredibly tough.
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Re: Arrow away. Its been an hour...
[Re: Hutchy]
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11/21/20 10:15 PM
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Sounds like a deep flesh wound in front of the front shoulder.They bleed heavy at first then stop bleeding the further they go.Always bright red blood. I should have taken pics. My buddy said lung was 100% hit, and every so often there were bubbles in it I watched the arrow go, and if I was a betting man I'd say 4" above the bottom of the deer, and 6-8" back from the leg crease. We figure one blade sliced the bottom of one lung, angle made it miss the second. Entry, exit. Explains it hacking out blood too. I generally aim too high with a bow, and corrected a bit to much I guess Here's a thought...next time I'll double lung it and show yall lol That should be a dead deer if that's correct.
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Re: Arrow away. Its been an hour...
[Re: Hutchy]
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11/21/20 10:16 PM
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Was all the blood right in the tracks or off to one side?
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Re: Arrow away. Its been an hour...
[Re: Hutchy]
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11/21/20 11:29 PM
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I'll tell you what, I've hunted quite a few species in Africa and Alaska, in addition to Ohio, where I grew up. Whitetail deer are probably the toughest animal I've ever hunted, in terms of being able to take a hit and keep going.
I don't know why that is. A lot of African hunters claim that African game are tougher than game in N. America. I think they're wrong.
Jim
Last edited by James; 11/22/20 05:57 AM.
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Re: Arrow away. Its been an hour...
[Re: BvrRetriever]
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11/22/20 05:54 AM
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That’s meat blood you’re tracking. Yep^^^ Just because there are bubbles in some of the blood does not indicate a lung hit.....pink, frothy blood does. From what you have described.....a flesh wound.
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Re: Arrow away. Its been an hour...
[Re: cohunt]
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11/22/20 07:35 AM
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^^^ This I've never lost a deer tracking myself after almost a hundred. I studied Tom Brown and other trackers, use peroxide, t-stick, flagging, etc. Took hours most times. Then I started training dogs to track in the late '90s. They do in seconds what took me hours. Dogs have successfully found wounded deer on tracks that were 1,000 yds six days old, six miles (10,000 yds) three days old, etc. Irresponsible to hunt any big game without having a tracking dog team available.
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Re: Arrow away. Its been an hour...
[Re: Hutchy]
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11/22/20 07:57 AM
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Good luck to you. It happens to all of us sooner or later.
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Re: Arrow away. Its been an hour...
[Re: Hutchy]
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11/22/20 08:15 AM
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Good luck. Doesn't look like massive amounts in pictures ive seen most were more like buckets thrown and painted and those don't go far at all. Good luck on next one sir! I walked one down in fairly deep snow, bad shot hit the knee area. Walked and walked and kept it moving and I caught up to it after a few miles. Sometimes you just get lucky and a little persistence never hurts either. Jim
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