I wanted to send a message ...Most of you all know this..but it comes from my heart...and we're all here together to learn..


If you're still tracking after 150 yards you did not hit the heart or lungs....We should all back off and go back the next day..

1) I have found many gut shot deer that I backed off on..found the next day

2) I have never found a deer that I hit high in the shoulder with the arrow still sticking in..this is a shot that missed the vitals.. You think you drilled them perfect....but they JUST survive..I can not explain...but they have a power to live and this shot leaves us in the woods til 3AM

Ok..on the flip side..high shoulder shots flip them in their tracks too...its all on the area of the shot.(Some spine shots fall in this catagory)

3) I have always recovered deer that were heart shot or lung shot within 50 yards...the arrow may pass through like butter...the deer may buck and do the colt 45 style...(this is a dead deer) the deer may tuck its tail and bull doze through the woods....These are heart and lung shots...

Deer reaction is a very important key to understand after the shot...

..........we all know when that arrow truly made its mark..

Crash, bang, boom,...the woods is silent...you made a heart/lung shot