FM,

Go to the MD online site. You can purchase a replacement license for a couple of bucks there.

Slice

Things are starting to heat up here boys. Had two big boys within 30 yards last night but they never came into an opening. I see some Elite 8 bucks on the board by the end of next week, we are to good to get shut out this long. One thing is for sure we have some catching up to do to get back into this thing, its gonna take another team effort with 6-8 of us getting bucks.

You got that right. I'm not too worried though - look at the bucks you fellas took last year and we haven't even hit peak rut yet.

I'll be in the woods here in Michigan most weekend long - hopefully will be able to get us on the board.

Let's get em!

Need your help on this one fellas. I shot abucktonight but couldn't find him. He wasn't huge, bigger than last year's buck, but probably wouldn't score over a 100. I decided to take him anyway based on my limited time available this season to be in the woods. It was a 15 yard shot, left side facing me quartering away. Since I'm 22' up and considering the close range, I decided to go a little high to assure hitting both lungs. The arrow hit where I was aiming - behind the shoulder about and below the spine a half foot. I assume the arrow lodged in the right shoulder or leg seeing as I never found the arrow. He was bleeding from his right side so the arrow had to have penetrated through but wasn't a complete pass through seeing as I never found the arrow. Blood wasn't picked up until 40 yards. Once I had blood, there was a steady trail of bright red blood for another 80 or so yards.I was shocked it hadn't dropped by this point. After another 20 yards of very spotty blood, I lost the trail. I'll return tomorrow morning to do a grid search at last blood. Hopefully the yotes won't have their way with him. I realize it's impossible to help me over the internet, but what's your opinion on this shot? You think I onlyhit one lung some how? How high would a shot have to be in order not to hit the lung on the facing side? I am truly baffled on this one.

Bob if the shot was placed the way that you say I don't see how that you could've kept from hitting both lungs. Keep on him I'm sure that he's dead. I just came back from my firstof 2 weeks off with nothing, not even a doe. But there's always next week.

You'd have to hit the spine or above the spine to NOT hit the lung on the facing side.. They go all the way to the top of the chest cavity

Where on this , did you hit?
http://home.mn.rr.com/deerfever/Anatomy.html

Turn the deer around quartering away:

I looked last night for 4 hours and this morning for another 5. Sorry to say, he wasn't found. I believe the thing to possibly even be alive. I found the arrow this morning 40 yards from where I shot him. The arrow had bits of meat on it and was drenched in bright red blood indicative of a muscle hit. My guess is I hit this deer higher than I thought - through the back strap but narrowly missing the spine and took no lung some how. The last blood was a big coagulated glob - no blood after that. That was at only 150-200 yards from where he was shot so my guess is that I didn't hit a major artery and the wound closed back up. I really don't believe in that so called "hollow spot", but geesh, how could I not have hit at least one lung at that angle? Sorry fellers, I suck I guess. He was a nice buck too, big bodied boy with neck all swollen. He came in sniffing the estrus doe pee I had dragged in. That stuff works good. Now if I could only learn how to shoot them.

Last year my buddy shot a buck and hit very high - same area I hit this one. It was a broadside shot so he got a pass through. The arrow looked much the same as mine - scraps of muscle drenched in bright red blood, no bubbles. We never found that deer as the blood trail ran dry. My buddy described this deer as a small fork with a limp on the front right. A week later from the same stand I saw his little buck - alive and well. I could see a black circle where the arrow entered directly behind the shoulder and just below the spine. He was shot from a stand so the angle would have to have hit the opposite side lung, but apparently didn't. Go figure. Maybe there's something to this legendary hollow zone.

YEah,, must have hit over the spine..

My buddie hit one just like that, then I missed it two weeks later. Then my uncle shot it rifle season with a hole through from my buddy..

Better luck next time