Rough night

Well last night, my hunting partner and I went to the same area where I got my buck.

He saw a monster 11 there tuesday night, no shot.

Wednesday night, as I'm sitting there HAMMERING a snickers bar I stole from children. He showed at the top of the hill.

My buddy and I were in treestands 60 yards apart, I grunted, he came RIGHT to him.

He took the shot, it looks like a half liver/gut shot.

Followed trail of thin blood drops/small puddles then 40 yards of nothing, then more blood. Gave us last night at about 10.

Going out now.

I'm sick. If we don't find this deer I may just cut my arms off.

How long did you let him go the first time before you started tracking?  Liver shots can go a LONG way, but he will die.  Got any tracking dogs in the area, this one sounds like he is worth it.

Good luck on the buck - I know how it feels unfortunately...
 

Last night we waited half hour after we shot him, got down, went to get flashlights and came back 2 hours later and started the search.

Followed trail for 100 yards. Lost it. Called in 2 experienced archers. Waited 1 hour for them to show up. Showed them the arrow they said MAYBE chunk of liver, but mostly gut. they re-found trail, followed it for another 100 yards, stopped lost it for the night. We both went home. Came back at 8 am with another buddy, searched until 11 am. At 11 am, Buddy found blood drops 200 yards away from where we stopped last night. As I walked to him, I discovered a trail to him, looked like fresher blood. Went to him, followed some more blood for 40 yards. Funny thing is, most of it wasn't dried up. Only the edges. Walked for 40 more yards looking for more blood, and we kicked a big deer down over the hill, no confirmation on if it being him. But was a big bodied deer, and the blood trail led us to him. So chances are it was. I went to where he fled down the hill just minutes earlier, and found dried blood on leaves there. There's no way, the deer dropped blood and it dried already. We scoured the area and lost the trail. Called it for the day.

I'm sick, I can't imagine what he feels. We've seen this guy spotting many times, and he's seen him from far away a few times.

Yeah, we probably should have waited, but if the deer wasn't dead 19 hours after he'd been shot. Will he die?


After closer examination on the shot and everything, the arrow was sticking outta the ground at a low angle, which brings the thought of maybe he was hit real low, and skimmed the ponch, or whatever. Because I don't think an arrow would go right through and have the velocity to stick in the ground.


Ohh and when the deer jumped today, he wasn't limping or anything.


any thoughts are greatly appreciated.

ORIGINAL: Deadbolt401

Last night we waited half hour after we shot him, got down, went to get flashlights and came back 2 hours later and started the search.

Followed trail for 100 yards. Lost it. Called in 2 experienced archers. Waited 1 hour for them to show up. Showed them the arrow they said MAYBE chunk of liver, but mostly gut. they re-found trail, followed it for another 100 yards, stopped lost it for the night. We both went home. Came back at 8 am with another buddy, searched until 11 am. At 11 am, Buddy found blood drops 200 yards away from where we stopped last night. As I walked to him, I discovered a trail to him, looked like fresher blood. Went to him, followed some more blood for 40 yards. Funny thing is, most of it wasn't dried up. Only the edges. Walked for 40 more yards looking for more blood, and we kicked a big deer down over the hill, no confirmation on if it being him. But was a big bodied deer, and the blood trail led us to him. So chances are it was. I went to where he fled down the hill just minutes earlier, and found dried blood on leaves there. There's no way, the deer dropped blood and it dried already. We scoured the area and lost the trail. Called it for the day.

I'm sick, I can't imagine what he feels. We've seen this guy spotting many times, and he's seen him from far away a few times.

Yeah, we probably should have waited, but if the deer wasn't dead 19 hours after he'd been shot. Will he die?


After closer examination on the shot and everything, the arrow was sticking outta the ground at a low angle, which brings the thought of maybe he was hit real low, and skimmed the ponch, or whatever. Because I don't think an arrow would go right through and have the velocity to stick in the ground.


Ohh and when the deer jumped today, he wasn't limping or anything.


any thoughts are greatly appreciated.

Get a dog, any **** dog will do, if you can find a bloodhound/shorthair/beagle all the better. If not, take your moms dog. Once that dog hits that trail you follow him, just let it do its thing. Bet you find it. I had my mothers dog take me down a ridge once right to a doe with a broken leg middle of summer. That dog wasnt trained to track anything.

I new a fella that had a deer dog. Bought it down south..Was an amazing tool for finding wounded deer..

any coyotes in the area, if so spend an evening out listening
 

Yeah there's coyotes. We saw 6 at once on the land owners private runway.

Saturday we're going to hunt, If I hear something, I'll get down and look!

ORIGINAL: Dr. Trout



I AM CONFUSED !!!!
 

 
I can see nothing has changed here...

Thanks for explaining.........

I agree. You would know if it was a gut shot, by smelling the arrow.