I arrowed my biggest buck and can-not see how I lost it.
02-07-2010, 09:57 AM
#21
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: central florida
Posts: 857
Quartering towards isnt a favorite shot of mine unless hes close enough to stick one at the base of the neck above the brisket. Im comfortable with this shot on hogs and deer to 25 yards. Deer shot in that area usually dont go far and leave a blood trail wide enough to drive a truck down.
02-07-2010, 01:49 PM
#22
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: grove city oh
Posts: 126
Diamondjustice...Are you serious? I opt for the logic that a field point will kill a deer if you hit both lungs.
Losing a deer happens to everyone. If you continue hunting, it'll happen again. When I started bowhunting in the 70's an old school bowhunter taught me the 3 things that you need to keep in mind if you are serious about bowhunting.
1. Practice until you are the best shooter that you can be.
2. Get as close to the animal as possible.
3. Use good judgement
If I were to guess what happened to that deer from the info that I have...I would say that you single lunged it. From the single lung hits that I've seen, the animals bleed pretty good...then stop bleeding. Then they go a ways with no blood before expiring.
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i under stand that but he was tore up so bad he didnt know if he hit the lung and i am just saying rage tares up everything
Losing a deer happens to everyone. If you continue hunting, it'll happen again. When I started bowhunting in the 70's an old school bowhunter taught me the 3 things that you need to keep in mind if you are serious about bowhunting.
1. Practice until you are the best shooter that you can be.
2. Get as close to the animal as possible.
3. Use good judgement
If I were to guess what happened to that deer from the info that I have...I would say that you single lunged it. From the single lung hits that I've seen, the animals bleed pretty good...then stop bleeding. Then they go a ways with no blood before expiring.
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i under stand that but he was tore up so bad he didnt know if he hit the lung and i am just saying rage tares up everything
02-08-2010, 05:24 AM
#23
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: S.Illinois
Posts: 333
IMO depending on a broadhead to make up for bad shot placement is crazyness,we need to be confident in our equipment,but not depend on it to make up for our lack of accuracy,and all the hoopla over the RAGE hasn't helped.its like telling someone to use buckshot and you don't have to worry about learning to be accurate or to be patient. IMO you should make every shot as though you were shooting a fieldpoint, so you better make it a good one!
02-09-2010, 10:04 AM
#25
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 19,137
i have a friend that shot a buck in the a$$ and wend down in about 290 yards till he fell over with a rage 2 blade and i shot on in the back of the neck and he went down try them they work or your money back lol
02-09-2010, 11:36 AM
#26
Typical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Posts: 714
The reason why i said you atleast got him was because if i shot a buck and knew he was hurt bad I would want to know what happened to him. And when i said pictures i meant i wanted to see the horns... Don't get your panties in a knot if you don't know the facts. Ok?
02-09-2010, 02:33 PM
#27
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Central Ohio
Posts: 768
if a deer is hit in the "dead space" they can go on forever... esspecially big mature bucks. i have a friend who this happened to and we saw the buck the next season. he was perfectly fine. NOTE my case may be rare but ive heard of it a time or two.
02-09-2010, 04:50 PM
#28
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location:
Posts: 1,408
If he was angling to, and the arrow entered high and back on the close side, you either single lunged him back into the liver or missed the lung and hit the liver. That's what the angle implies anyways.
If you found him circled back within 200 yds how do you know he was 500 yds out?
It's simply rude and presumptuous to blame his tracking. Sitting behind your keyboard you have no idea what the track was like. If they completely stop bleeding and run hundreds of yards through thick stuff they can hide under a molehill.
If you found him circled back within 200 yds how do you know he was 500 yds out?
It's simply rude and presumptuous to blame his tracking. Sitting behind your keyboard you have no idea what the track was like. If they completely stop bleeding and run hundreds of yards through thick stuff they can hide under a molehill.
02-10-2010, 04:46 AM
#29
Typical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: N/W WI.
Posts: 814
Diamondjustice...Are you serious? I opt for the logic that a field point will kill a deer if you hit both lungs.
Losing a deer happens to everyone. If you continue hunting, it'll happen again. When I started bowhunting in the 70's an old school bowhunter taught me the 3 things that you need to keep in mind if you are serious about bowhunting.
1. Practice until you are the best shooter that you can be.
2. Get as close to the animal as possible.
3. Use good judgement
If I were to guess what happened to that deer from the info that I have...I would say that you single lunged it. From the single lung hits that I've seen, the animals bleed pretty good...then stop bleeding. Then they go a ways with no blood before expiring.
Losing a deer happens to everyone. If you continue hunting, it'll happen again. When I started bowhunting in the 70's an old school bowhunter taught me the 3 things that you need to keep in mind if you are serious about bowhunting.
1. Practice until you are the best shooter that you can be.
2. Get as close to the animal as possible.
3. Use good judgement
If I were to guess what happened to that deer from the info that I have...I would say that you single lunged it. From the single lung hits that I've seen, the animals bleed pretty good...then stop bleeding. Then they go a ways with no blood before expiring.
I still feel bad cause I lost the meat and the chance to get some pics with this deer.
