Had a shooter come in this afternoon about 530..... I could tell he was an older, bigger bodied deer (with pretty decent headgear) as he was walking thru the brush...... I was at full draw when he hit a clearing at about 22yds..... I released and hit him high, it was just a yardage mistake on my part... The arrow hit slightly behind the shoulder about 4-6" below the spine...... No pass thru, arrow went about halfway in.......made a really loud "thwack"!..... He bolted out of sight across a rocky draw, and I thought I heard him crash(might have just fell on the rocks)..... I waited an hour and found some sparse blood for the first few yards, then nothing........ No deer, no broken arrow, no more blood........ Headed out at first light with some dogs...... Wish me luck!
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Yep get a dog. Good luck -
good luckComment
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Darn it hope you find him.
Lot's of tracking issues on TBH.Comment
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gluckComment
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You'll find him with some dogs it still sounds like u got lungs he shouldn't be far good luck. Post a pic when u find emComment
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good luck bossComment
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ul get em!Comment
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Good luck and let's see some pics!Comment
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Hope you found him.Comment
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I shot the biggest deer of my life last Friday. Sounds like the exact same senerio. However, I never found my deer. I never found any blood from mine though. I hope you find him. I have been absolutely sick about mine.Comment
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whats the update, did you find himComment
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Need update....Hope you found himComment
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Hope you find him!
I used my dog to find a doe last week that I hit in the shoulders and produced very little blood. You should find him if you got any penetration at all. Hopefully the yotes didn't beat you to him.Comment
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Just got home..... DID NOT recover him...... I have been hunting on my family's land since I was seven, and this is the first time I've list a big deer like this...... I'm really angry with myself about it, 4" is the difference between life and death on bowhunting and I learned that the hard way this weekend..... On the positive side, I truly believe the buck is not fatally wounded, and it's my goal to get him this season....
My good friend, Robby Leek of San Angelo, has two great Blue Lacy tracking dogs. We got to the scene at first light, and the dogs picked up on the faint blood where I hit him. They tracked across a rocky draw and up a hill about 75 yards before we found blood. There was two small spots about the size of a silver dollar where I think I heard him stop yesterday evening. For the next 40 yards we found six splatters of blood (not much at all)... The dogs worked some more and we found blood 100 yards further ( the deer had crossed the draw again and appeared to be circling. The dogs worked some more and we found blood another 100 yards further. At this point, it was apparent the deer wasn't bleeding, wind was blowing like a banshee, and we were on 17 hour old trail.
We never found a broken arrow, and we never found a place where the deer bedded down. After Robby and the dogs left, I went and walked a pasture road that the deer was headed toward.... And I found one blood splatter by the road!!! It was about 300 yards away from where the dogs had found their last blood.... I back-tracked it to the dogs stopping point and found nothing..... I made circles and searched endlessly on the other side of the road and found nothing.
The sound of that arrow hitting keeps "thwacking" in my head.... The arrow hit him like a ton of bricks..... He just stumbled and bolted with half the arrow sticking out....I am pretty discouraged with myself and my shot placement, buy it is now my mission to find and harvest this buck.Comment
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