Great first hunt!
09-23-2007, 12:11 PM
#1
Giant Nontypical
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Mont County, Pa
Posts: 7,368
Great first hunt!
Well, I went outyesterday and hunted for the first time this year. I hunted those GIANT white oaks that I've mentioned before. They are pouring acorns!!! Unreal. This was my first hunt with my new Vectrix, and my first shot (28yrds)at a deer with it. So far, one shot one deer.
I wanted to mention another first, reguarding this hunt. I doubled lunged this doe, complete pass through,and she left literally no blood trail. None where she was standingwhen I shot her, no blood trail to the spot where she dropped. I've never experienced this before. I believe it was the angle that made the difference. Must have been internal blood loss.
I wanted to mention another first, reguarding this hunt. I doubled lunged this doe, complete pass through,and she left literally no blood trail. None where she was standingwhen I shot her, no blood trail to the spot where she dropped. I've never experienced this before. I believe it was the angle that made the difference. Must have been internal blood loss.
09-23-2007, 12:20 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Deer Country
Posts: 2,244
RE: Great first hunt!
ORIGINAL: early in
Muzzy, of course!
Muzzy, of course!
I use those as well and have never not had good blood with a shot like that....it's just one of those things.
09-23-2007, 12:23 PM
#7
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Phoenixville, PA USA
Posts: 5,541
RE: Great first hunt!
Congrats on the doe. That's wierd about the lack of a blood trail. Maybe she was standing in such a way that the skin was pulled and when she returned to a running position the skin moved to close the holes. Dead deer recovered is all that matters though, good job.
09-23-2007, 01:14 PM
#9
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Southport,Florida
Posts: 441
RE: Great first hunt!
Way to go early--good looking doe...you said the shot was 28 yds----If I can ask how high up the tree was you, and I take it that was the entry hole,Where was the exit hole??That may explain why no blood trail??? Nothing wrong with your shot I'm just curious!!!