ORIGINAL: OHbowhntr

Congrats on the doe, but there are two lessons here....

1. If you're not sure of the shot, then leave it lay for a bit, and if you jump it out of it's bed, you're not gonna bleed it out in short order, you're probably gonna end up with "a 5 hour chase." Unless you rump shoot a deer, trying to bleed it out isn't such a good idea in my experience, and yes, regrettably, I've been on that trail before also.

2. What you may "think" is a "LOT" of blood really ain't as much as you "THINK!!!" Trust me, I'm a nurse, I work in a hospital, and I've seen people bleed what looked like a massacre, and never even change 10% on their blood counts. Rob/Pa knows this very well as he uses only a small amount of blood for his blood trails he sets up and a lot of people think their is a "LOT of blood," when in essence, there really isn't. A deer needs to loose about half of it's blood volume to die, and what you usually see on the ground before finding the animal is probably less than a pint, even on GOOD shots from my experience unless you're using a BIG BH, 1.5" or wider that gets a pass through.

Now go get your big buck!!!