Originally Posted by
deerslyer11
Sorry to hear that. Sometimes deer just bleed inside. My first buck i shot with my rifle i blew the heart up. Had only a few drops that you could barely see and that was it!. Deer was laying 70 yards away.
I believe that would be the norm for a good heart shot with a gun. I shot two bucks with my ML last year and blew the heart to pieces on both. Very little blood as far as a trail goes, but I'm sure that's because there's nothing left to pump the blood to create a blood trail.
In those cases it didn't matter as neither of them went farther than 40 yards.
To the OP: I seriously doubt it was a faulty broadhead. I've shot deer myself and was convinced that I'd made a perfect hit only to find that once I found the deer after a tough trail that it wasn't nearly as "perfect" as I thought. Both of those instances happened because either the deer were quartered more than I thought they were or they spun a lot more than I thought before the arrow made it there. That stuff happens to everyone, but it doesn't make it any easier to take.