Tilden the same thing happened to me this past weekend. I shot a doe at 225 yards and she dropped in her tracks. She started trying to get up so I’ll walked down to finish her off and when I got about 100 yards away she got up and took off. I searched for about three hours over two days and never found that deer. For a deer to go down like that and then get up and run off I have to think I hit above the spine and she was just stunned. It sucks bad. Hopefully they both make it.
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Originally posted by Etxbuckman View PostTilden the same thing happened to me this past weekend. I shot a doe at 225 yards and she dropped in her tracks. She started trying to get up so I’ll walked down to finish her off and when I got about 100 yards away she got up and took off. I searched for about three hours over two days and never found that deer. For a deer to go down like that and then get up and run off I have to think I hit above the spine and she was just stunned. It sucks bad. Hopefully they both make it.
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Originally posted by pyrobow View PostIF you hit his Antlers it will cause that type of scenario.
That is a good point and I thought about that. There is just no way it happened on this shot. I was aiming high shoulder and if my 7 mm 08 would of hit his thin rack at that distance his head gear would of been destroyed. Think the above spine is what happened. With him dogging that doe with head down I think I just hit him 6” high.
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Well still sounds like a good hunt regardless of the last part. I had this same kind of thing happen once with a doe. I shot into the base of the neck and the deer layed flat out on the ground then jumped up and ran.
Waited a while and walked down you could see the outline of where the deer was layed out flat on the ground but no sign of blood, fur or anything else. WE looked around a bit and gave up. We went back to the blind to wait for pick up and when my friend arrived to pick us up he wanted to look again. We were looking all through the brush and finally my wife found her just on the back side of a cactus.
While cleaning the deer I realized I had shot the deer in the base of the neck and the bullet lodged in the front shoulder separating the shoulder joint. There was no blood anywhere. It was a smaller caliber rifle I am pretty certain a larger round would have kept her down, the bullet never exited.
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