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11-20-2008 | 01:43 PM

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sunnydhntr

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RE: Recovery, What To Do After the Shot.

I have a dilemma. I shot a nice buck yesterday at 3:30 p.m. He was at 22 yards, quartering away, head to right tail left, and I was on the ground too. The arrow is aluminum with fixed blades, from a 52-lb bow. My sight was on his midsection and I heard a thwack, then he ran away from me and about fifteen feet up the trail he lost the arrow on the left side of the trail. The arrow was completely covered in blood with bits of meat and tan hairs on it. It did not smell bad. We took up the trail at 5:30 p.m. The first blood was about 50 yards out on the trail where his hoofprints were still running. He was headed NW, but then my husband jumped ahead on the trail going NE and found blood about 100yards awaygoing into a bedroom area there. We picked up better blood there, both on the trail (darker blood), and on the grass (lighter blood). We resumed the trail at 8:00 p.m. We gave up last night after tracking him 2 hrsanother 50 yards due to the cold and lack of blood trail.
This morning we resumed and only found a few specks further up the trail, then lost it about 200yards from the original site. Is it possible that this trail is not from my deer? I felt really good about the shot and the arrow gave me hope, but this trail started out NW, and then we skipped ahead about 50 yards NE on a hunch. We have 152 acres of land in a rural agricultural area, with plenty of neighbors around that hunt also.
Pamela

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