ORIGINAL: BrushPopper
Alot of times, with high shot-placement, the deer will bleed buckets, but it all stays inside the body cavity.
I killed an 8-point this year with my .308--the heart and lungs were turned to jelly and he ran abt 50 yds with nary a drop of blood to be found on the ground between where he was shot and where he piled up...
But when I dressed him, buckets of blood just poured out.
The body-cavity just holds it all in.
Seen this time-and-time again.
Agree...even with an arrowyou sometimes get little blood to work with if you hit high lung...at least in the beginning of the trail.
Hey BP...why don't you try a .45 for a change.