Anyone have this problem?

[muzzymaster]

I just got back from Missouri and was fortunate enough to shoot a small nine point buck on the last night of the hunt. It had been hard hunting, so I was proud to put my tag on any deer at that point. Anyway, I was hunting in a ground blind in an alfalfa field, and made a perfect double lung shot on the deer and he ran into a CRP field. He went about 80 yards and piled up. We never found the first drop of blood from the deer. I stumbled on the deer and realized that the he had filled up with blood on the inside and bled out after he had collapsed. He didn't have any blood running down either side of his body. Has anyone ever had this happen, and if so what can I do to keep it from happening again?

[Mudshack]

Fat deer seal up the wound. It happens. For me, I make sure that I put the most total inches of razor blade through them as I can.

[Rudey]

Ground blind shots are basically parallel, the entrance and exit wounds are even. If the shot is even a little bit high, blood will sometimes be sparse until the deer "fills up" and starts spilling out of the wounds. Unlike treestand shots where the exit wound is usually very low and starts bleeding immediately.

At least that's been my experience with both...

[Darkarcher159]

Same thing happened last week when my son shot a doe. Great double lung, but no blood, she made it about 100 yards. We have been shooting 100 grain 3 bladed Muzzys for years, but trying some Rages this weekend.

No blood trail makes it hard to recover the deer.

[AggieBall]

I like your avitar

[txhunter83]

Rage!

[MountainMan]

I like your avitar

Me Too!!

Ground blind shots are basically parallel, the entrance and exit wounds are even. If the shot is even a little bit high, blood will sometimes be sparse until the deer "fills up" and starts spilling out of the wounds. Unlike treestand shots where the exit wound is usually very low and starts bleeding immediately.

At least that's been my experience with both...

Makes sense to me.

[Hot4huntin]

Ground blind shots are basically parallel, the entrance and exit wounds are even. If the shot is even a little bit high, blood will sometimes be sparse until the deer "fills up" and starts spilling out of the wounds. Unlike treestand shots where the exit wound is usually very low and starts bleeding immediately.

At least that's been my experience with both...

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[Big Spec]

[QUOTE=MountainMan;969066]Me Too!!

X3

[qzilla]

and if so what can I do to keep it from happening again?

Aim Lower.

[Draco]

Ever try a String Tracker?

[Lung Buster]

Rudey is a wise man.

[muzzymaster]

Qzilla, you're probably right.