one little buck tonight in the rain! lots of sign. haven't even put a camera out this year figured id surprise myself.
Thanks.Man, I missed alot today while driving home. Congrats to Kirk and Kenny!!!
16colt, don’t beat yourself up about losing your buck, because if a person hunts enough and shoots at enough, it’s going to happen. Which tracker did you use? Like undeg01 said, those guys can usually give you a pretty good idea if the deer will survive.
He went down the second I shot him. Did a couple of kicks, then jumped up and ran. I thought he was hit hard the way he instantly dropped.First pic appears to be a considerable amount of blood but that second pic looks like pieces of fat. Almost looks like a low brisket shot to me.
Did you ever see him go down, or just run off?
If that's the extent of the blood that's hardly anything. This buck had 3 arrows in him. First shot was high and dropped him, he started dragging himself off so I put another through him. He made it to a brush pile and a was tangled up so I got down and put another arrow through him. I left and went back to the truck to go to the landowner's house to give him some time to expire. Came back later and he was gone. Tracked him for couple hundred yards and lost blood. Found him the next spring about 3/4 mile from where he was arrowed, and about 100y from where we quit looking for him the next day. This was pre-dog use unfortunately.Thanks.
The tracker I used was a young guy my sister knew. He had a two year old lab. He never did get on a scent any further than the last blood trail we had found the night before. Ended up doing big sweeps upwind for quite some time with no luck. He thought from the blood that the deer would not survive, but was not sure since there was such the lack of blood after he jumped the fence. Here are a couple of pics I took. I’m not convinced he’s dead.View attachment 314775View attachment 314776
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