RE: is there really a name for this??
sorry to hear that...hope you find him...maybe you hit the brush or something?? maybe the gun IS off....who knows...i think i hit a doe in the same place....never found her i duno....flintlock....i didnt see ANY of the twigs in the way before i shot....when i got up to see if i hit heri was shocked at how thick it really was.....looked like wide open woods....but its a oak stand..the leaves were thick and down below the scrub oak trees and small limbs ect were bare and VERY VERY dark...no sunlight gets down from the sky because the canopy is so thick...i wish i woulda seen all the crap in the way....but at the shot i found blood...brisket hair and muscle blood....never found her....i gave her a while when i got turned around i nthe thicket when the trail dried up....then was leaving to get dad and found blood crossing an ATV trail..found a bed...but she was gone already and i didnt kick her out...searched for till dark....and all the next day..hung up the flintlock and just combed the area high low and all over......nothing...nada.....did find a deer someone else lost...so i know i was looking in the right places...i dont think that deer ever died....if it did it was a long time later...weeks later.......saw a deer hit monday with a small caliber rifle by a kid....hit was above the lungs...below the spine....deer was acting hurt but didnt seem like it was dying any time soon...i saw the shot..the kid went to get up and chase after it...i told him to sit tight wed find it....his dad was up the hill and the deer was acting sore but not anything bad...and laid down to lick the wound when his dad finished it off.....i dont know if it would have died.....from the dads description the deer seemed fine..just sore...i heard about a void spot there but figured a high power rifle hit the shock will drop it when it shocks the spine....but i guess its possible...not sure on the kids caliber...shells were pretty small....my 3006 shells made them look like a toy bullet....i shoulda asked....bigger then a 223...but didnt look like a 30cal......maybe 243..i dont know...it was small and didnt make much noise