I wasn't sure if I wanted to post this or not, due to the pissing match that will probably ensue. Sunday evening I hunted across the road from my house. 80 acres with a winter wheat field next to a creek bottom. I've been seeing anywhere from 8-12 does in the field at dusk every evening, so Sunday I decided to try to fill my last tag. Around 3:30 I hear something running in the timber behind me, does running everywhere. A fawn is towards the back with a coyote closing fast. The other deer scatter and leave the fawn and coyote to run out in the field alone. I dig out a fawn bleat and hit it a few times, hoping to call the yote back in for a shot. A few minutes later I hear something trotting in the timber behind me, its a yote with 2 others about 50 yards behind it.[>:]It is slipping through some brush and finally gets to an opening at 30 yards. I draw, pick a spot and shoot. The yote hardly reacts and slowly trots off the same direction it came from.Clean miss I'm thinking. I head over there and start looking for my arrow, which I find. Complete pass though, covered in blood. I'm kinda happy at this point, since its the ONLY passthrough I've had with these BH's. Then I get to looking at the BH....it didn't open![:@]The o ring rolled back on the arrow shaft, but the blades are spotless. I'm am pissed to the highest level!! I go back, get my backpack and follow the very sparse bloodtrail. I looked until dark, never did find it.
I've shot 2 deer with these BH's and the blades opened, but no pass throughs on either one. I get a pass through at 30 yards, the o ring rolls back and the blades have no blood hair or dirt on them. The fletchings and shaft are soaked in blood and hair. Did I shave its belly/neck? What gives? I will take pics on my lunch hour and post them. I'm stumped.[&:]