you'll probably see him in the local paper with a gun hunter grinning.

THWACK!

Il Bow Man, sorry about your loss, How you get an opportunity for your gun week.


CHARLIE P, FYI That buck has been seen twice, 3 days after the shot and a couple of days ago. He was chasing does and moving a little slower/possibly limping. Shot was, to be more accurate in description would have been in the center and would havehit the rear edge of the lung area. At the angle and his movement, you know how it ends. I'm not so sure it was a 'gut shot' after all. That post ended like the Civil War and lets let it end. Ruffhunter

IBM, no ribbing needed, you have, at this point made a very valient effort to find your buck. I know with a buck that nice and at least half your arrow still in him, that you are not done looking yet. You know where you last saw him, and sooner or later it will work its way on through, if he doesn't expire first. Good luck to you on finding him!!

The best of luck in all your hunting endeavors!!!

God Bless,
Dave

I agree that you have expended every effort and have nothing to hang your head in shame for.

I don't like the "quartering to shot" for just this reason. If you can hit tight to the shoulder odds are good to take part of a lung, liver, and the arrow will angle into the gut. This makes tracking difficult because intestinal material will fill the hole allowing for a drop or two of blood every five or six feet; allow 4 hours before tracking this animal.

If the shot is not tight to the front shoulder, a gut shot will be the result; I allow overnight or 10 to 12 hours to track a gut shot.

Dick

Is this a B&C 8 with kickers on the G 2's In East Central Illinois on the county line?? Very doubtfull, but if so he's not hurt to bad & runs just fine!! There is a MASIVE 8 pointer in the area I hunt that if killed will prob be one of the biggest ever killed by a bowhunter!!I've ben trying to get pic's of him alive before someone (ME) kills him.. lol I saw him again today with his doe & he looked just fine.. If you get him I want to see the pic's!!!<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> Good Luck!!

If you have a good population of turkey vultures in your area that is also what I would be looking for. I have located 5 downed deer from public ground hunters by following where I see the vultures. I found a dead doe some one arrowed at Middle Fork State Fish and Wildlife Area a few weeks ago by following up on a turkey vultures sightings, turned out the doe was gut shot high behind the last rib with no more than 4 inches of penetration, the camo goldtip was still in her with 4 inch green and white vanes and a muzzy head.She was laying no more than 10 feet from the mowed grass path. I wouldnt of thought she would of perished from such a low penetrating shot, so dont give up keep on looking and I hope you find him.Best of luck to you Bow-Man.

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Personally, I believe that there is a very good chance that it was a single lung. A single lung deer can live an aweful long time depending on &quot;how tough the deer is&quot;. Can it live 24 hours? Yes. But that is more rare than the ussual 15 hour rule. Will it die? Yes. Depending on the way it was hit, you may not even have much of the pink frothy blood that you would expect. You didn't have the exit wound which would have been benefical to you.

A lung hit deer does not act the same at all as a gut hit or liver hit deer. They can travel a long way without bedding. The reason is that a liver or gut hit deer is actually feeling very sick. The single lung hot does not. Also, the single lung hit deer will not necessarily travel to water the way that a gut or liver hot deer will.

sorry you lost your buck. i tracked one this year for 9hr. and 15min. just to find that she had been stolen.
yes it has been cold enough that the meat could still be good. but the time is running out. it is scary tracking during gun season there are a lot of crazy shooters out there. but it is over for a couple of weeks .
good luck finding him

Sorry to hear this story - Keep looking and as others have said, vultures, buzzards, crows even coyote and foxes can help located him.



Shoot often - Hunt always

I think you've made a good effort to find him. However, I'm perplexed as to why you weren't carrying a gun in hopes of finishing him off?

PBB

Pick a hair.....or a caruncle!!