Lost a Buck...help

[Fishndude]

Sweet...another typical whizzing match.

Stay tuned for the next edition of "my dog can beat up your dog"

OP - Good luck!

[panhandlehunter]

You have to know how to shoot them.... And i am not talking abou aiming.

Shoot a deer behind the shoulder at close range with a rifle like that and youre asking for trouble. And the OP got it LOL.

Shoot deer IN the shoulder. They dont run. High shoulder shot. Puts em down every time. "But but but but it wastes meat!! waaahhh!!!" Guess what? When you lose an entire deer, that wastes more meat than blowing up a shoulder....



I wish you luck in the track. I hope you find him.

I don't shoot many deer with a rifle, but when I do you can bet it's going to be a high shoulder shot. DRT 100% of the time. Ain't much meat on them shoulders anyway.

[Smart]

.270 a run off gun? LMAO.....comical..

[RF76]

Thats why a 270 will make you a real good tracker. Run off gun is what I call them after 10 years chasin 4 different guys lost wonded deer on our lease. I know everyone thinks thier great but Ive seen much different results. I hope you find it & buy a 25-06 and hit them like Thor's hammer! good luck

Shot placement. A .270 is plenty of gun, most of my kills with the .270 are DRT, the only ones that have run with little blood trail is when I hit them high in the lungs but so far I have recover all of them.

I seen deer run 50 to 100 yards after they are hit with a 30-06, 308, 300 after a double lung shot.

[ajcarricktx]

Lack of blood could mean a higher hit in the lungs. Makes tracking hard and sporadic blood because chest cavity has to fill up to spurt blood out the hole. It is a fatal shot but hard tracking. With the rain I think a dog is your best bet. If not start at last sign and do circles in 50 yard increments depending on cover. Hang in there you will find it just hopefully before the yotes do.

[Bretto22]

I shot a doe this morning with a 7mm08 at 60 yards... broadside... white hair all under the feeder... aa few Chunks of lungs on the ground... NO BLOOD!! shot her with a hornady 140 gr sst... I followed the tore up ground and 75 yards away there she laid.... she didn't bleed till I picker her up to load her.... this is why I normally use a 223 and neck shoot em... they either fall drt or you miss!! Still haven't missed one with the little Weatherby I got!

X2 I always shot a 22-250 from the time I started hunting!!! White spot on the throat game over!!! And deadly accurate as far as u want to shoot!! Doe or a toad crosshairs in the same spot!!!

[Artos]

Thats why a 270 will make you a real good tracker. Run off gun is what I call them after 10 years chasin 4 different guys lost wonded deer on our lease. I know everyone thinks thier great but Ive seen much different results. I hope you find it & buy a 25-06 and hit them like Thor's hammer! good luck

You do realize Jack O'Conner is looking down pointing at you and laughing right?? Not any difference in the 25-06, 6.5-06, 270win or 280rem for whitetail...they all use the 30-06 case but just different neck size?? Maybe the oddest gun comment I've seen here??

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Anyway, with lung tissue on the ground...it sounds to me like a high lung or likely bullet failure of some kind. No expansion, plugged exit wound, separation & only partial exited?? Doesn't matter as the results are the same.
Still, I'll bet you have dead deer on the ground from what you describe.

[ajcarricktx]

Agreed^^

[locknload]

good luck

[TENRMORE]

Good luck,

some of y'all need to start your own thread about which caliber to use...smh

[JonW]

If confirmed lung is on the ground I doubt he coughed it up-so there's an exit hole. It's possible it plugged somehow (although a stomach is more likely) he's still bleeding, just inside chest cavity and will be just as dead if both lungs are hit as it he lady three gallons of blood.

I'm a little nervous about the white hair, but not as much if lung tissue is confirmed.

[Black Ice]

Good luck.

[Albino Rhino]

I shoot a 270 with the hornady sst 130 grain. Make anything sit in place.

[talltexasshoote]

You do realize Jack O'Conner is looking down pointing at you and laughing right?? Not any difference in the 25-06, 6.5-06, 270win or 280rem for whitetail...they all use the 30-06 case but just different neck size?? Maybe the oddest gun comment I've seen here??

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Anyway, with lung tissue on the ground...it sounds to me like a high lung or likely bullet failure of some kind. No expansion, plugged exit wound, separation & only partial exited?? Doesn't matter as the results are the same.
Still, I'll bet you have dead deer on the ground from what you describe.

This. Spend some time or use a dog and I would give you great odds that you will find him very dead.

[Tbone3636]

I shot 6 deer this year with a 270, including a decent red stag at about 250 yards, he went about 15 yards and I put another in him and down he went... The first one would have done it but I chunk lead till it falls and the 270 is always my go too... The 5 whitetail and fallow deer I shot this year dropped in their tracks