Broadhead Not Deployed?

[jt400]

High hit no doubt. Crazy things happen and its hard to remember what you saw between touching off and impact. Seen it many, many times. Happens to all of us.

[deep n the heat]

Here is a deer I shot 12/18. Arrow broke off 2” behind the rage. Had about 10” of blood on the arrow. Ran off, good blood after 50yds then lost about .25 mile away. Dog called and supposedly ran him. A week later he showed back up. He was slightly quartered away. I think it hit a rib and deflected forward not entering the rib cage. I’m trying to get another shot at him this weekend.



It’s crazy what can happen and what they can live through.

[2B4Him]

Here is a deer I shot 12/18. Arrow broke off 2” behind the rage. Had about 10” of blood on the arrow. Ran off, good blood after 50yds then lost about .25 mile away. Dog called and supposedly ran him. A week later he showed back up. He was slightly quartered away. I think it hit a rib and deflected forward not entering the rib cage. I’m trying to get another shot at him this weekend.

It’s crazy what can happen and what they can live through.

Yours looks VERY similar to mine. I wish I could find my arrow for further evidence of what may have happened.

[Matador]

Here is a deer I shot 12/18. Arrow broke off 2” behind the rage. Had about 10” of blood on the arrow. Ran off, good blood after 50yds then lost about .25 mile away. Dog called and supposedly ran him. A week later he showed back up. He was slightly quartered away. I think it hit a rib and deflected forward not entering the rib cage. I’m trying to get another shot at him this weekend.



It’s crazy what can happen and what they can live through.

I can see that being to far forward at the quartering away angle. Still wild to see that!

[JeffK]

Here is a deer I shot 12/18. Arrow broke off 2” behind the rage. Had about 10” of blood on the arrow. Ran off, good blood after 50yds then lost about .25 mile away. Dog called and supposedly ran him. A week later he showed back up. He was slightly quartered away. I think it hit a rib and deflected forward not entering the rib cage. I’m trying to get another shot at him this weekend.



It’s crazy what can happen and what they can live through.

That shot was to much to the front. Needed to aim for that backside leg.

[Sackett]

It looks like you hit right above the spine and the wound has leaked down ward. The last weekend of the season my wife Shot a buck that was hit exactly where yours appears to be hit (with a rage hypodermic) and his wound looks exactly like yours. Unless you have photo or video proof of where your shot hit a lot of times you can think you hit a certain spot but really hit somewhere completely different. Only one way to find out is to do a necropsy

[Bowanta]

The first deer I ever shot with a Spitfire never had any blood to trail. It was a doe quartered away and I buried the arrow to the nock. Never found blood, arrow, and the deer.
I too doubt the Spitfire did NOT open, but then again, Whitetail Deer are Very Tough Animals with a strong will to live

[Tex_Cattleman]

My take-away? Those critters a tougher than nails!

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[Chance Love]

OP, so I just now looked at this on my laptop instead of just my phone. Why are you certain your red arrow is pointing at the entry? It looks higher to me. It ESPECIALLY looks higher after seeing the pic showing his opposite side. It kinda looks like the head opened but since the deer LIKELY rolled away from the shot, the arrow traveled up his body and one blade made that big cut.

Here is a deer I shot 12/18. Arrow broke off 2” behind the rage. Had about 10” of blood on the arrow. Ran off, good blood after 50yds then lost about .25 mile away. Dog called and supposedly ran him. A week later he showed back up. He was slightly quartered away. I think it hit a rib and deflected forward not entering the rib cage. I’m trying to get another shot at him this weekend.



It’s crazy what can happen and what they can live through.

Oh that's an easy one. Deer was hit way too far forward at that angle (NOT what I would call "slightly quartered away"). Like 8" too far forward.

Why do you say the dog "supposedly ran him"?

[JeffK]

It looks like you hit right above the spine and the wound has leaked down ward. The last weekend of the season my wife Shot a buck that was hit exactly where yours appears to be hit (with a rage hypodermic) and his wound looks exactly like yours. Unless you have photo or video proof of where your shot hit a lot of times you can think you hit a certain spot but really hit somewhere completely different. Only one way to find out is to do a necropsy

I agree. It looks like that’s where the deer is licking it’s wound and it is align with the knot on the opposite side.

[Duckologist]

After seeing the lump I would imagine the arrow traveled through no mans lands.

There is no such thing as no man's land

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[ChrisB]

Hit is clearly high.

How it looks to me.

[Mudslinger]

I will say this, unless you find that deer dead, no way you can say where that arrow hit that deer. Sorry, but it is what it is. Seen it too many times in 51 years of shooting at critters with a bow. After owning an archery shop for 11 years, I have heard every excuse in the book on why that deer is not dead. Used a few myself. Never is it the shooters fault.

[HeyMikey]

I agree with those that question your opinion of where the arrow actually hit.
Without video proof, you're just guessing at where the arrow impacted him, or at what angle.

[retrieverman]

I’ve a buddy that tracks deer in Oklahoma, and he said mechanical broadhead failure accounts for 40% of his business.