Help....

Hey guys not much of a rifle hunter but had to break it out this year. Tonight 90 yards I took a shot at a buck. Broadside. Shooting a 270. So heads behind tree I put cross hairs behind shoulder and pow i shoot. It bucks hard up in the air spins and goes into the thicket. Sweet dead deer. I walk up... no blood nothing hair no nothing.. ok check my spot where I shot everything is good... So get to talk with some buddies ... they say well a gut shot won't bleed.. my thing is a .270 150gr bullet isn't going to make that deer bleed ? Possible gut shot to you guys? Needle in a hay stack I'm in Anf Marienville but I'm curious to see what opinions everyone has so please chime in I'm pretty confused.... Ed

Yes back up in air....

Hands and knees. Or very small, slow circles till you find evidence of a hit. Have heard of gut shots getting plugged with fat or stomach contents. Maybe like btdt said, look for green/brown instead of red.

Only deer I've ever killed with a gun that didn't drop where it was or in sight required hands and knees on a solid heart shot with a 30/30

Found a FEW hairs where he stood at the shot. Could follow about 20 yards of where he kicked up some leaves. 45 minutes on hands and knees following what I thought was his escape route finding pin pricks of blood.

Quarter size drops at about 60 yards. More blood at 80. Dead at about 100.

It was a weird one for sure but I was pretty certain I made a good shot and in fact I did.

Maybe you nicked a branch or something was funky about the shot that caused weird bullet penetration but still got a lethal shot. A gut shot will prob still be lethal, but not for a couple hours.

How much did you look already? Or did you just decide right away to go back in the AM?

What's up Ed. ^^^^ what they said.  You'll be need to find any water (pond,lake,river,creek ) Thats where you will find the deer.  I gut shot a deer ocne and all I could find was like a green hocker. Found the deer 3 days later in a creek I was lucky tho, She must lasted that long because when dragging out of the creek she wasn't all stiff so when I cut into her she was still really warm inside. So in the freezer she went.  Good luck man HIT THE WATER today

First- be darned sure you are starting to look where the deer actually was when ya shot at it.
Go back to where ya were when ya shot and relive it--then take exact note of where the deer was and where he went after the shot.
Lack of hair or blood often means little -initially.
Have had some high lung hits that left no blood ( and not enough hair to notice) for  quite some distance. If the deer ran after the hit it may be some yards before he slowed and ( especially with a high hit) blood starts to show.
Hopefully ya can still see some running tracks in the leaves to follow. Its when he slows that it gets tough.
A friend following up on a shot went about 60 yards and lost the track in the brush before stumbling upon ONE drop of blood many yards later while swinging back and forth on the general line.
(Remember they don't run off in straight lines so the farther out ya get the more likely your in the wrong area).
Shortly thereafter he came upon a very dead lung hit buck.
Sounds  a lot like Dar said but ya always gotta follow up- even for a day or so- till ya answer the questions.
Good luck.
Have shot a number of them and every one that reared up was heart hit or the shot went low. A hunched up back can mean many different scenarios.
 
PS- I am 69 and have shot a deer or two ( or more) most every year since my late teens-and I firmly believe in a heavy bullet so as to have an exit wound to double the chance  external bleeding. Double is a big deal IMHO.
Yes, have used the light shells and they can be devastating- Butt- I want an exit wound for a blood trail. Personally use a 180 soft point in my single shot Ruger #1.
 

Update. Shot the gun 4" high after I just sighTed it in a week ago... now I'm thinking ok high lungs... looked all morning so sign.. headed back tomorrow with 2 guys to hunt and look. Not convinced i missed at all... I hit the pines hard today I thought he would of been right there...

Several years ago my dad had a doe at 20 yards broadside. At the shot she didn't react at all except for turning her head towards him with hair flying everywhere and he could see the blood starting to flow. She turned and ran into a cornfield on a dead sprint. After 35 yards there was blood from the ground to almost 4 ft high on the corn and we even found a good sized part of lung. We tracked her another 150 yards into the field when the blood ended. We spent the rest of that day and then the next I went back and tried everything to try to find that deer to no avail. 3 weeks later while checking my trap line I found her about 400 yards from where we lost her.

Hes a hawg . Snow tonight ups my chances

12 gauge slugs to deer head trustmee turn antler into anterless..zombiz bewarz

BeenThereDoneThat.

Mountian Man
12 gauge slugs to deer head trustmee turn antler into anterless..zombiz bewarz

Who woulda thunk???

That's interesting..... didn't think you would shoot a gun. Thought you would be afraid of chipping a nail.

I have my fair share of guns.

Either a miss or a gut shot.
 
Miss...  It happens.  I missed one years ago, it never moved, not even an inch.  Follow up shot blew his lungs out.  I felt super confident in the first shot, too.  IDK if it was oil in barrel, a funny factory load, a twig somewhere between me and him, etc.
 
Gut Shot...  You should have found hair.  Find water.  He will be within ten yards of a creek.  Probably laying under a jagger bush. 
 
High Vitals?  there would still be blood and hair from the initial shot, I would think. I agree that this is a tough scenario to find blood fast.  It would still die quick though.
 
I would guess you missed.  A .270 should blow some hair off him, no matter where you hit on the body.

Buck Fever..... didn't chamber a round.