So there I was, about 4pm, a buck, a 6 point !
The largest deer I had ever fired at , no more then 150 yds away.


I aimed, I fired, my buddy yells "Woohooo!"


I bring the rifle down and reload it (bolt action), the deer is trying to stand up, almost like a dog sitting on the ground, he gets up and wobbles, I aim and fire again, he takes off bounding through the field and into the woods.




I shoot a .300 WSM 180grain failsafe bullet.


We track the blood trail from this deer, huge pools of blood at first, and I mean like somene poured a bucket of blood on the ground.

And the trail is constant.

After the first 50 yards into the woods, it starts getting very very thick, massive briar bushes, and now the blood trail is small, maybe every 5-10 feet a few drops here and there.

After about 100yds total in the woods, the blood trail ends with only a drop of blood.


We scoured the are for over an hour, bringing in 4 other people, we each were using 3million candle power spotlights and we searched untill 8:30pm


We never found him.



Any ideas?



The splotches of blood were weird, they werent like a pool, it was almost like if someone had Coughed the blood, they were slpattered like, heck I dont know someone had a paint brush full of blood and just winged it all around the woods.



We'd find blood on trees a few feet away from the pools of blood, my buddy even remarked the deer had his blood sprinkler going off.




I have no idea exactly where I shot the deer at, I aimed for the shoulder, but my friend said as soon as I shot the deer "sat down"



This area is frequented by MANY hunters, so I want to find this deer asap, but none were out there when we left (way after dark) so I know no one picked it up.



Help !!!!!!!! []