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how many people here have shot a deer and never found it, what did u shoot it with gun or bow.
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I shot a big buck when I was 18 with a Marlin 336 in .35 Remington. The shot was about 80 yards and he was hit through the lungs as he fed in a small soybean field. He ran at the shot and left one heck of a blood trail. I decided to let him lay for a while and followed up about 45 minutes after the shot. The deer never bedded. He ran bleeding like a stuck hog for over a half mile, at that point he slowed and my uncle and I trailed him down a sandy logging road by hoof prints and the ocassional drop of blood. Over a mile later we lost his trail and could not pick it up again. Then as the old saying goes, "it began to rain..." Three of us went back the next morning and began to make circles, we never found him. I checked for buzzards for the next three weeks...nothing... I would not have believed any animal had that much spare blood in it!
I arrowed a deer in 2003. The shot was high and a little back but I'm sure it hit the liver. The buck dropped in his tracks. As I climbed down the tree with my climber he got up and ran off. Sure it was a dead deer running I grabbed my son and went home. We came back later that day and found little blood but that was expected for a high shot. I hung up my bow for the season (except for meat deer) and searched everyday for 3 months. I was that sure of the shot. A couple months after the season ended my neighbor found this deer laying dead between his barn and picker. I had walked past him for 3 months and could have only seen him if I had been right on top of him. My neighbor refused to give me the rack. The buck scored 176".
This is why I think tracking dogs should be legal.
Three years ago I put a Wasp jackhammer broadhead thru a small doe. The arrow was covered with blood but the deer ran into a cedar and brier thicket. There was not a drop of blood on the ground. hunted that deer for hours with nary a sign. That prompted my switch to Rage. Now the blood trails are copious and short.
i have only ever wounded one deer i did not recover in my hunting so far . a big doe i shot in the brisket after hitting a sapling with the round ball from my muzzle loader .i tracked her for two miles through the snow before i gave up on her .
I lost a doe about 40 years ago... it made me feel so bad that I actually quit bow hunting for many years. The shot looked perfect... It about half way up on my side of the chest, right where I was aiming. The arrow when right through the deer and she fell immediately on the arrow, breaking it. She kicked around for five minutes below my tree and I just froze and stayed quiet, certain that she would expire. She finally flipped out of site and I waited 20 minutes more to retriever her. For the first half mile, she apparently never regained her feet as she was just rolling through the brush. At mile two, she stopped bleeding so much but there was still quite a blood trail. I tracked her for four miles and then lost her trail as she started to walk in water in a thick swamp. I never found her and expect that I pursued her too quickly and she just ran on adrenelin. Now I wait at least and hour to pursue unless I can see them lying dead from my stand. A very sad experience for me.
Lost a doe two years ago in a big thorn and cactus thicket in south texas, searched for two days but lost the trail after about 300 yards. found her a week later because coyotes and Vultures started feeding on her. Still makes me sad that she went to waste.
ohh sorry shot her with a Rifle
i lost a very big buck a few weeks ago, i shot it with an arrow and it was too far forward but i did find a sign or two of a lung hit..i searched for a solid two days and quite a few days after school the following weeks..i didnt see any crows or eagles so i didnt know what to think. so about a few days ago i heard a big buck walk behind me and shake its antlers through brush when i was hunting at the same spot so i'm pretty sure that he is still alive...at least i'm hoping
ohh yeah and it was with a 70lb matthews drenalin bow with 100 grain muzzys, it was a complete pass through with alot of blood on the arrow. but the trail just died and it started raining
Never have-I have been fortunate enough to find everything dead-although I thought this year I was going to loose one but after hours of searching found him dead in the middle of some cattails.
Haven't had an unrecovered deer yet, and I hope I never do have one.
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I shot a big buck when I was 18 with a Marlin 336 in .35 Remington. The shot was about 80 yards and he was hit through the lungs as he fed in a small soybean field. He ran at the shot and left one heck of a blood trail. I decided to let him lay for a while and followed up about 45 minutes after the shot. The deer never bedded. He ran bleeding like a stuck hog for over a half mile, at that point he slowed and my uncle and I trailed him down a sandy logging road by hoof prints and the ocassional drop of blood. Over a mile later we lost his trail and could not pick it up again. Then as the old saying goes, "it began to rain..." Three of us went back the next morning and began to make circles, we never found him. I checked for buzzards for the next three weeks...nothing... I would not have believed any animal had that much spare blood in it!
I arrowed a deer in 2003. The shot was high and a little back but I'm sure it hit the liver. The buck dropped in his tracks. As I climbed down the tree with my climber he got up and ran off. Sure it was a dead deer running I grabbed my son and went home. We came back later that day and found little blood but that was expected for a high shot. I hung up my bow for the season (except for meat deer) and searched everyday for 3 months. I was that sure of the shot. A couple months after the season ended my neighbor found this deer laying dead between his barn and picker. I had walked past him for 3 months and could have only seen him if I had been right on top of him. My neighbor refused to give me the rack. The buck scored 176".
This is why I think tracking dogs should be legal.
Three years ago I put a Wasp jackhammer broadhead thru a small doe. The arrow was covered with blood but the deer ran into a cedar and brier thicket. There was not a drop of blood on the ground. hunted that deer for hours with nary a sign. That prompted my switch to Rage. Now the blood trails are copious and short.
i have only ever wounded one deer i did not recover in my hunting so far . a big doe i shot in the brisket after hitting a sapling with the round ball from my muzzle loader .i tracked her for two miles through the snow before i gave up on her .
I lost a doe about 40 years ago... it made me feel so bad that I actually quit bow hunting for many years. The shot looked perfect... It about half way up on my side of the chest, right where I was aiming. The arrow when right through the deer and she fell immediately on the arrow, breaking it. She kicked around for five minutes below my tree and I just froze and stayed quiet, certain that she would expire. She finally flipped out of site and I waited 20 minutes more to retriever her. For the first half mile, she apparently never regained her feet as she was just rolling through the brush. At mile two, she stopped bleeding so much but there was still quite a blood trail. I tracked her for four miles and then lost her trail as she started to walk in water in a thick swamp. I never found her and expect that I pursued her too quickly and she just ran on adrenelin. Now I wait at least and hour to pursue unless I can see them lying dead from my stand. A very sad experience for me.
Lost a doe two years ago in a big thorn and cactus thicket in south texas, searched for two days but lost the trail after about 300 yards. found her a week later because coyotes and Vultures started feeding on her. Still makes me sad that she went to waste.
ohh sorry shot her with a Rifle
i lost a very big buck a few weeks ago, i shot it with an arrow and it was too far forward but i did find a sign or two of a lung hit..i searched for a solid two days and quite a few days after school the following weeks..i didnt see any crows or eagles so i didnt know what to think. so about a few days ago i heard a big buck walk behind me and shake its antlers through brush when i was hunting at the same spot so i'm pretty sure that he is still alive...at least i'm hoping
ohh yeah and it was with a 70lb matthews drenalin bow with 100 grain muzzys, it was a complete pass through with alot of blood on the arrow. but the trail just died and it started raining
Never have-I have been fortunate enough to find everything dead-although I thought this year I was going to loose one but after hours of searching found him dead in the middle of some cattails.
Haven't had an unrecovered deer yet, and I hope I never do have one.
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