almost sounds like a single lung hit and if so the animal could survive but from the blood loss you describe, I doubt it.
Exactly when I saw red blood with bubbles in it, I immediatly thought single lung hit.
If I came across like I was telling this guy not to look for the deer I apoligize. That was never my intent.He said the der as shot at 7 and he posted at almost 10:00 am. With the amount of blood loss he was describing I didn' t think it would take that long for the deer to expire. So I figured this deer had been dead for about 10 hours already. With out ever cooling down. In my experience that woud create a dangerous situation in regards to meat spoilage.
[quotecharlie and cwlks -So what your say is don' t go hunting the evening post if you can' t guarantee you' ll recover the deer that night] [/quote] There are no guarentees in bow hunting. I do take the temperture and weather conditions into account before I release the arrow. One night I was out and it started raining hard, I passed on a fat doe, because I knew tracking the deer would be near impossible in the conditions. Got out of my stand and went home.I do my meat hunting when it turns cold, I live in upstate NY I lucky enough to get nice cold weather.
I proably would have gone home and got the lanterns and one of my good buddies on this deer. The hit defianately sounds like lung/lungs.Even if it meant staying out all night.