RE: Tale of woe lost deer, help
Phil, it sounds like you're confident that it was a clean miss and my post is not meant to change that. I just wanted to share with everyone reading this thread that a deer I shot did snort or blow after I shot it and just before it went down. Just to make sure we are on the same page, I'm talking about the noise a deer makes when it is alarmed and trying to warn other deer, usually accompanied by the stomping of its front hooves. The deer was a mature buck, the shot hit heart only, the deer ran about 50 yards and snorted as it slowed and then collapsed. I've never heard another deer do this after it was shot, but most of the other deer I have killed were shot through the lungs and i'm guessing this noise would be impossible to make with collapsed lungs. Just thought I would share this so others reading this who are inexpierenced woudn't give up on tracking a deer prematurely just because they heard the snort.