RE: slick trick blood trails
i killed a doe this year with a slick trick, it litterally went through the whole deer body from its front right leg, to the back left, there was plenty of blood and it only ran 30 yards.
Whos to say if the deer had not ran further there wouldent have been any blood, it dieing so fast doesnt leave much time to bleed.
Infact the2 deer i killed this year with my 30-30 had 0 blood anywhereafter 40 yards they both died.
EDIT:
Also i forgot my friend got into bowhunting this year and he has the same equipment i do, im not sure how far his deer ran or how much blood there was, all i know is in his first year of ever bowhunting he killed and recover 2 bucks and a doe with the ST. Also i killed a little turkey with a slick trick dropped him in his tracks(but thats easy with a BH like that i guess)