that looks like a dead deer to me. no one can judge the time, but with a nice hole and that much blood, it will die. give as much time as u need and then go in. hopefully it didnt go far into the swamp...those are the hardest to recover...swamps really scare me.

Looks like fresh backstraps to me.

Just give it plenty of time.. Let it die in bed. Bump it and yah might not see it again. The blood does look like a liver hit and that deer is going to die. If it is liver hit it won't go far. Good luck!!!!
The blood on the arrow does look a bit grainy so you might have caught some stomach....

[:@]I went out for four hours this afternoon to follow up on that deer (doe) and I trailed it for 1.5-2miles the blood wasnt bad at first and then it slowed to drops but I found trees with blood on them as it brushed by them,and then little pinpoints of blood, and then I eventually lost it. I had even followed it through a swampat one point.
Im starting to think this deer is still alive. What could I have hit that the arrow didnt penetrate good?
Any tips for when I head back out tomorrow?

Jim

Check your arrow and the site of the hit for hair.
This can help you tell where she was hit.

If I remember correctly, bright red blood presenting a good blood trail that fades to pindropsover a long distance could be just a muscle hit. Pushing her now could help her keep bleeding by forcing the blood to keep flowing and not coagulate. If she beds too long, she'll scab up and might live.

I haven't seen a lot of liver blood, but I think it would be darker since the liver filters the blood on it's return to the heart after it has already delivered it's oxygen to the restof thebody. Not as dark blood as a gut shot, but darker than lung and muscle.

Is there a chance I could find this deer today? I followed it for 1.5 miles or so and it never once bedded down, and this is after I gave it 4 hours. Also the height on the shot looked good, but I thought it was a little back. The thing that really got me was I could see more than half my arrow sticking out, and it then fell out intact not even broken?????WTF????
The blood trail turns to drips then pin prics, then drips, the pin prics, then NOTHING!!!!
Is this dear alive????? I thought I hit it good, but was just really bummed to see the arrow sticking out.

Jim

When you first posted, I thought you meant you didn't get all the arrow to penetrate. Clearly, from the picture the arrow fully penetrated. Did you mean sticking out the other side?

My brother had a blood trail like this three years ago on a Buck. We had great blood and could easily follow it at first but then it slowed and when the Buck hit the open field approx.600 yards laterwe lost the trail. Three weeks later on the first day of rifle season my Aunt shot this buck. He was chasing a doe not 500 yards from where my brother shot him. He still had the wound from my brothers arrow. It hit just below the crease at the shoulder passing in and out of the deer without hitting any vitals, basically just went through the hide and some muscle. I think if your deer has gone 2 miles without bedding that the deer will survive. JMO.

My prognosis is.. I think The arrow went in above the spine through the backstraps. I've done this and have seen it done and it bleeds like hell then fades and fades and fades and NO DEER. They live..

Looks like the arrows went in, stopped, then got caught on a tree or fell out by finishing going all the way through.. you wouldnt have BLOOD on the fletchings otherwise..

Any tallow?

Matthewsboy what is tallow? I could see the fletchings of the arrow sticking out of the deer and more than half of the arrow. It looked as if it never punctured the other side. Also I am pretty sure I didnt not hit above the spine, I could see the arrow and I was on the ground, it was dead center heigh wise it looked. The arrow hit right in the center of the body height wise and a little far back (but no bile on the arrow). Could this deer be running on adrenaline?