crud!

[tarjake]

wife finally got a nice broadside shot at a doe. i think it hit a rib because it hit, stuck, and came out on the 3rd jump as she ran. little bit of blood on the broadhead, little bit of blood trail that petered out. next morning she was at the blind eating corn! shooting a diamond edge at @ 43-45lbs with 100 gr kolpin 3 blade. 25 yard shot. what the heck??!! got a discouraged gal.

[HoustonHunter]

wife finally got a nice broadside shot at a doe. i think it hit a rib because it hit, stuck, and came out on the 3rd jump as she ran. little bit of blood on the broadhead, little bit of blood trail that petered out. next morning she was at the blind eating corn! shooting a diamond edge at @ 43-45lbs with 100 gr kolpin 3 blade. 25 yard shot. what the heck??!! got a discouraged gal.

Sure it wasn't the shoulder? Don't know about your broadhead but I've never had problems with ribs.. Usually have a passthrough shot.

Stuff happens man! That's why bowhunting is a challenge. Jump back on that horse!

[HIDE-N-SEEK]

Reassure her that strange things happen in bow huntiung and that it is not the norm. Get her back in the saddle quick. That should be plenty of poundage, but you might try to get her a little closer shot to minimize jumping the string.

[tarjake]

should be able to head back to the lease next weekend. im going to stress that i think it was a freak accident. no doubt its same doe. been watching her on trail cam

[Deer Tracks]

That happened to me last year. If I had heard the story from somebody else, I never would have believed it.

I shot at a buck from 20 yards and hit him perfect. 10-ring perfect. It seemed like the broadhead "stuck" in something. He took a leap and the arrow broke off right behind the insert. Everything fell out. No penetration. I had about an inch of blood on the arrow but that was all.

I couldn't figure it out. Everyone else was doubting my shot placement. From my description of what happened, it certainly sounded like I hit the shoulder blade or something.

The buck was back to eating corn a few days later and I shot him again. Pass - through this time and he piled up in 100 yards. There was a very small hole right where I had hit him the week before...and right where I knew I had aimed. When we skinned him, all we could find was a fractured rib.

Was the arrow defective? Did it break at a weak point and lose all its energy when it hit the rib? I had shot lots and lots of other animals and never experienced anything like that. Strange things happen for sure!

My advice is inspect the arrows and shoot another one!

[fox1]

Reassure her that she has plenty of bow to get it done. My wife has killed 3 with her passion and she is barely pulling 45 pounds and shooting 85 grain broad heads. 2 complete passthroughs in the ribs and 1 in the shoulder that still penetrated enough to take the doe down after only running 30 yards

[speck1]

Maybe she pulled out a judo point by mistake. I cannot imagine how a sharp broadhead would only penetrate two inches. 45 pounds is sufficient enough. Spine will stop one but ribs and shoulder blades should not. Try a Slick Trick next time. Would be cool for her to take the same doe.

[rmartinjr4]

Strange things happen at times. I remember a few years ago while on a blackbuck antelope hunt with a buddy in Rocksprings he took a shot and hit the antelope high on the shoulder. The arrow he said hit and ricochet straight up in the air. Arrow was bent in a semi-circle...the darnedest thing I'd ever seen. The animal ran in my direction as I sat against a tree and seemed to me that I'd be taking a five yard shot at it through a shot window between a tree that forked at the base. I came to full draw as it got closer and just as it got in that window I released as it jumped toward me through that forked tree, not but maybe two yards from me and kept on running. My buddy asked if I'd shot and I was too embarrassed to say yes...lol. Later that evening we overheard a guy say that he had killed an animal that appeared to have been hit three times. The kill shot was right in the pump house, the second shot high on the shoulder (my buddy's shot). We couldn't see the third shot until he grabbed the ear lobe to show us. A perfect cutout from a 3-bladed broadhead. Later that evening, I confessed to shooting at it when it nearly jumped onto my lap and must have hit the ear lobe. I was the only one using 3-bladed broadheads. Funny things happen. Hey, at least I didn't miss right?

[SaltwaterSlick]

My wife shoots maybe 35 pounds with her Mathews Ignition. She's killed half a dozen deer with it. Year before last, she got 3. One doe and 2 bucks... Both bucks died on camera and the doe only went about 75 yards out into the brush... IF the hit is in the boiler room, she's got plenty of bow to get it done sir. If I made any suggestion, it would be to switch to a cut on contact head like the Magnus Stingers. My wife shoots 85 grain stingers and they have served her very well. I'm not familiar with the head you have. If it is NOT cut on contact, I'd definitely make a change there. Most of my wife's shots have been pass thru's.

Most of all be as encouraging as possible... things happen in bow hunting. Just a dang shame it happened first time out for her...