Finally made my Illinois hunt ( help needed )
11-19-2005, 10:58 AM
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Finally made my Illinois hunt ( help needed )
2 buddies and myself made our 1st but not last Illionois bowhunt. If it wasn't for a bad shot from myself we would have had 3 Pope and Young's coming home. I was hunting a deer I saw the 1st day only to get my shot on the 2nd to the last day of the hunt. Glad I snapped a few photos the 1st day so I can relive that horrible feeling in my stomache when we were unable to find him. I had moved a stand after a morning hunt but didn't trim shooting lanes because our hunt was coming to and end and I didn't want to make too much commotion in there. The deer came in and bedded up at 12 yards for about 1/2 hour without giving me a shot. Without much notice he started to leave and I had 1 lane that I needed him to walk through and he did and I released. The 1st thing that came to mind was I broke his spine how is he running. The arrow looked like an antenna sticking out of his back. I watched him cross a 700 yard cornfield, walking then jogging and so on. Waited 3 hours, came back and found about 40 yards of blood drops then nothing the rest of the way which we followed his tracks. I stayed and searched till dusk with no luck. Does anyone have any idea where I might have hit and why my arrow was stopped so short? Thanks for anyone help. 
Edited to add the show was 8 yards at about 22 feet high.
Edited to add the show was 8 yards at about 22 feet high.
11-19-2005, 02:45 PM
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RE: Finally made my Illinois hunt ( help needed )
Shot was 8 yards with a very, very slight quartering away. Didn't look like much penetration at all. It all happened so quick that i replayed it in my mind 1000 times and can't figure out what happened.
11-19-2005, 03:52 PM
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RE: Finally made my Illinois hunt ( help needed )
That's what both of the guys that were with me said. I would be very surprised if that is where I had hit him but you never know. By the way did anyone get a good look at the pictures and tell me what theu believe he would score?
11-19-2005, 04:30 PM
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RE: Finally made my Illinois hunt ( help needed )
If you think you hit him that high and with the antennae thing, I think you probably hit him above the spine right into his backstraps and vertebrate. That is a thick, dense area right there and I have seen people hit deer there and not get even close to a pass through, but usually because it is hitting right above the spine, it shocks the spinal cord and they have a moment of temporary paralysis. I dont see how its a shoulder if you thought it should have broke his back and was sticking straight up like an antennae. Good side, I dont think they die from those shots.
11-19-2005, 05:01 PM
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If you think you hit him that high and with the antennae thing, I think you probably hit him above the spine right into his backstraps and vertebrate. That is a thick, dense area right there and I have seen people hit deer there and not get even close to a pass through, but usually because it is hitting right above the spine, it shocks the spinal cord and they have a moment of temporary paralysis. I dont see how its a shoulder if you thought it should have broke his back and was sticking straight up like an antennae. Good side, I dont think they die from those shots.
If you think you hit him that high and with the antennae thing, I think you probably hit him above the spine right into his backstraps and vertebrate. That is a thick, dense area right there and I have seen people hit deer there and not get even close to a pass through, but usually because it is hitting right above the spine, it shocks the spinal cord and they have a moment of temporary paralysis. I dont see how its a shoulder if you thought it should have broke his back and was sticking straight up like an antennae. Good side, I dont think they die from those shots.