RE: Liver Shots
 

Their are things you have to answer. WHat color was the blood? Bright pink blood with bubbles means lung. If theirs corn, fiberous material, or green looking material you hit guts. RED Watery blood is usually a muscle hit. Look at blood on leaves,does it appear to have water around it. Bright blood is artery blood which is good. If i can remember right liver blood is darker in color. A deer hunched up usually states that the deer isnt going to die immeditly. I have hit a deer high-above the shoulders. It hunched up and stood their until a hunter scared it. Then it walked 200 hundred yards and found a thicket that it felt safe in. It was dark black/red blood that was easy to follow. i waited 3 hours and jumped it. I followed it to another thicket and waited till morning it was right their. The shot didnt penetrate much i hit some major bone and it was a far shot. When looking fora deer i always keep in mind where is the water sources. It always seems that they are headed towrd it. YOu also need 2 people on a blood trail. One to stay were the last blood was and another to search for more blood. Dont just follow deer paths they often ditch them before they die.

RE: Liver Shots
 

yea i understand that but it really would of been nice if their was blood to track the arrow was caked and there was good blood for quite a few yards then it stopped.

RE: Liver Shots
 

yea well to bad u shot it at 7:30 at night could have dropped it their if it was earlier

RE: Liver Shots
 

I have to disagree!!! A liver hit with a low exit hole will leave a great blood trail;)

RE: Liver Shots
 

I've seen liver hits with low exit holes not bleed much. In that area, there are usually a lot of stuff that can plug them up unless you have a quartering away shot that goes through the liver and a lung. Remember that the liver is not on the lower portion of the body, it mainly sets up high.

RE: Liver Shots
 

i liver shot a deer two nights ago but it looked like i also sliced a lung and he laid down within 30 yds and died shortly after that. i gues i got lucky he didnt run far becuase it was raining and would have been a tough track.

RE: Liver Shots
 

I shot a deer with a rifle in the liver and it did not bleed for 200 yards. Remember i dont care where you hit a deer if you have a high exit whole, the body cavity has to fill up till that point. Blood is restricted by gravity too!!!

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I liver shot a buck and he was dead in 5 seconds........he walked down a trail and we heard him crash litterally before i was able to set my bow down!

RE: Liver Shots
 

I think BobCo pretty much nailed it.