What's your strangest "after the shot arrow" story?

[jerp]

I had a very jumpy doe standing broadside at 20 yards with her right side to me. Against my better judgement since she was so jumpy, I put my pin on her lungs and shot. At the shot she swapped ends in a nanosecond and took off but I could tell she was hit. When I found her the entry hole was just behind the ribs on the LEFT side. In the tiny fraction of a second between when the sound got there and the arrow got there she had turned almost 180 degrees.

[talltexasshoote]

I had a large cull 6 point come into a feeder pen I was at and ran all of the other bucks off. He stopped after he had drive the three young bucks that were feeding completely out of the pen and began feeding on corn broadside right in front of the blind. The pen is huge, so this corner is literally 8 yards from the blind. I'm already at full draw, so I settle the pin on his crease and pull the release. The arrow flys forward, clanks into something and bounces back, clattering off of the blind front. The buck stands there for a few seconds trying to figure out what happened. I'm trying to do the same. He looks up and sees one of the young bucks that he drove from the pen standing a short distance away. He snorts, jumps out and proceeds to chase him away. After he doesn't come back for a few minutes, I sneak out of the blind and pick up the arrow. It is about six inches shorter and splintered where the insert goes in. I am still scratching my head until I glance over to where the buck was standing and can see where I squared up the wire on the hog panel. Best shot I ever made. About 45 minutes later a 142 inch eight point came in and it put one right through his heart. Some thing are meant to be.

[TxDispatcher]

Not strange so much as funny

I built a hay bale blind a few years ago, and a doe comes too close to the window for me to feel comfortable drawing, since I felt she would see any movement. I knelt down, drew back, eased up to where I could see her, and let it fly. Unfortunately, I failed to raise up enough to clear the bottom of the window all hell broke loose in that blind, as the arrow disintegrated and pieces flew everywhere I bet that doe didn't quit running for a while, because not only did it sound like someone was beating pots and pans in the blind, I was laughing so hard the blind had to have been shaking.

[TP3]

I once shot a pig at 46 paces. Full pass through, deflecting upward.
Nailed a dove in midair that had swooped by at exactly the same time.
I couldn't believe my eyes.
After a short track on the hog I went looking for my dove.
I found it wrapped in bacon and still skewered by the arrow.

[Txsurveyor2014]

Last year, I had a cull buck that I had been after for a while, come in broadside at 20 yards. I was hunting out of a popup , so we were just about at the same level. He starts feeding, so I draw back, put the pin on him and let her rip. The buck falls over RIGHT THERE. I can tell it was a spine hit, but I was aiming for the heart! When we load him up, there is a textbook entrance location for a heart shot. we got to checking, when cleaning the deer, the arrow went through the heart, and apparently when it hit the far side ribs, the arrow followed them up and spined him at the same time.

[ChickenWilly]

Years back I was shooting a pse nova and was still shooting aluminum arrows. The day before season opened we had gotten to the lease early and I was shooting my bow. Next thing I know my rest is moving around because the screw had broke off. In a panic I ran up to nocked and loaded and they installed a whisker biscuit and we got it tuned and dialed back in. Everything seemed great until I had a doe come into my hand corn at 20yds. I drew back and the sound of that aluminum arrow going through the whisker biscuit made get jump out if her skin. She jumped back to 25 yards and turned broadside again and I let it fly! Before the arrow got to her she had done a 180! I didn't realize until after I got down that I had hit her in the throat. (Which explains the coughing sound she was making 100yds out after the shot. She left a great blood trail for a few hundred yards then it vanished. Never did find her but I switched to carbons that day! Crazy how fast the can react and move!

[Canoe1]

My son had a double lung pass thru on a small buck, when we took up the blood trail I found his arrow laying on the ground with his broadhead next to it. It had come unscrewed AFTER it exited.

I was hunting out of the old T2 pop up with Flingnsting years back in Mason.
He was going to try out some massive expandable broadhead on a doe.
Well, a doe come out, he aims, he shoots. I swear I saw his arrow hit her good, but I also thought I saw the arrow go straight up behind her.
We wait a bit, go look where she was standing, and maybe about 5-10 ft behind where she was standing, I see the arrow pointing straight down in a cactus. I go to pull the arrow out, and there is no broadhead, thinking the head and insert pulled out in the cactus, I look in the end of the arrow, the insert is there, filled with cactus pulp.
We find the doe a short ways away, with a broadhead exit wound. Never did find that broadhead though.

[Canoe1]

Another time in Mason, I was up a good bit in a big old oak on a caliche ranch road. Had a buck feeding about five yards or so from the base of the tree facing a heavy quartering away.
I drew back, took aim about 1/2 between spine and side of belly and just a tad behind the leg. Released the arrow and the buck just stood there. I'm thinking how'd I miss him, and just about that time he starts to a wobbling, and takes one step and wobbles, one more step, then fell over dead.
Ended up I center punched his heart, but I guess I didn't hit bones (2 blade) or something like that to scare him..
Shortest track ever with my bow.

[catslayer]

got a couple... One with a rifle... shot at a doe, she jumps 6 feet in the air and comes down on her side kicking... I'm like 12 so there are high fives and at-a-boys... about 3rd high five she JUMPS up and runs like a bat out of hell... huh... though she was done.... Go look at the feeder, no blood... like not a drop. look for 2 hours... apparently I missed. and scared her so bad she just fell over and panicked for a minute. weirdest thing ever

With a bow... I have a buddy, who hunts twice a year with us probably... and he come back to camp saying, "I smoked a doe but it got dark so I came back to get help tracking". he said it was perfect low heart shot, close leg forward watched the fletching zip in... I'm like cool, 100 yard track tops... 250 very slow yards later I give up for the night. We go back the next day, I find her 300ish yards from where he shot... with no hole on either side...what the??? no hole... I flip her over, no hole... wth..... then I notice her leg... its broken... He MISSED the chest cavity, took hair off it but no blood, hit the far side leg, SHATERED IT, hit the brachial artery and she bleeds out... Here is the kicker... next year... HE DOES IT AGAIN! same deal on a spike... exact same thing... so now that is dubed, the "Jason shot", it does save all the meat lol

last one is my uncle... We have one night to hunt the old farm place... well my other uncle smokes a doe with a rifle. We pack her up and find my other uncle, half a mile from his spot... and saying he hit a doe... but he cant find her. I'm sick, we have to leave right then basically... and its getting dark. And I'm like, ok where is she hit... He said, "well, she was quartering away, and when I shot she kinda spun..." ... Kinda spun??? where did it hit?.... "Left of her @$$hole... the arrow is a MESS... "
I facepalm and think, we are never gona find this... I go start tracking... realy good blood after the first 40 yards, find her 150 yards from the spot he shot. Sure nuff... the arrow went in... bent a blade on her left hip bone, traveled ALL THE WAY THROUGH everything, exited EXACTLY where you would want to aim on her right side just behind the shoulder. Full pass through stern to stem... guess that's why you shoot a powerful bow lol

[dustoffer]

Well, this wasn't my arrow, but some trespassers--I shot a buck at about 18 yds, he high kicked and was out of sight through the brush in 10 yds or so. I waited a while, then climbed down and made my way to my arrow in the ground just past where he was standing. I find initial blood spotting where he was standing, and laying there in the leaf litter was the front 6" of someone's shaft with a 2-blade Rage BH on it.

[wacm]

I had a guy tell me he shot a coyote with a rage and it bounced off him! Lol

[686]

I thought I would be the only one, but I have another vanishing broadhead story:

I tried some Muzzy heads a few years back, but they would never shoot consistent for me, so I tried some slick tricks and had much better results. So I'm hunting that season with slick tricks but I take a few arrows with the muzzys on them in case I want to use one on a hog so as not to waste a slick trick. A nice buck gives me a shot at 30 yards, but I hit him high and CRACK! I know his back is broken, but he's flailing around, so I decide, "hey I'll just use up one of these muzzys to finish him off". He's on his stomach trying to crawl, pointing away from me now, but I make a better shot this time, entering halfway back next to his spine and exiting his brisket and he bleeds out in less than a minute. I get down to collect him, and I pull out my first arrow, lodged in the bottom of his spine/top of his ribs. The other arrow is laying on the ground in front of him (not imbedded), but the head is gone. I think "it must have sheared off", but I check the insert, which looks fine, and there is no sheared shaft inside. I dig around to no avail. The thing just vanished.

[ghostgoblin22]

shot a doe 2 years ago, full pass through, ran about 20 yards, looked at me and my buddy who was with me helping me spot and stalk, then ran off, i hit her right in the pump station, good blood trail...backed out for a couple hours, went to recover, followed blood trail, there was one spot where there was alot of blood...i could tell it laid down at that spot, but couldn't find deer..the spot was about 100 yards from the neighbors fence line, so i don't know if he came and got the deer or if the deer ran off....weird, that was supposed to be my first bow kill but didn't happen..

[howzitbra]

Awesome stories, wish I could contribute but I got nothing. Keep em coming!

[Tx.Fisher]

I shot a doe a few years ago and found the arrow about 8' up in a tree that was about 10 yards behind me. To this day I have no clue how it got there. All I can think is it bounced off several things and some how did a 180 and landed behind me. Arrows and bullets can do some odd things.