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Successfully recovered!! The shot was "a little far back" as he told me [:-]. Anyone ever see a femoral artery bloodtrail?

I got there and we headed to where he hit the buck. He pointed out where he shot it. Very little blood, no arrow around the immediate point of impact. My first instinct (especially from what he described to me) was OH BOY we're in for a good one here. He then takes me to where he saw him enter the woods. Nothing! We walked up and down the woodline for a couple minutes. About 40 yards from where he thought he went in I found blood. And ummmmmm LOTS of blood!

In all my years hunting I've never seen a bloodtrail like this. To make a long story short the deer was 40 yards away at the bottom of the hill inside the woods. 30 yards of which I think he slid down after he expired. There was blood sprayed all over the brush and ground. It looked like a triple homicide. The arrow was stuck through his back legs and must have went through the femoral artery.

He was pretty bummed about the shot. I told him it's a lot better to be bummed about the shot with a recovered buck at your feet than wounding it or not recovering it. Learn from it and consider yourself fortunate that we are gutting him. Then I gave him hell for making me come all the way out there to help him trail his buck when the dang thing was 40 yards away dead as could be when he was on the phone with me this morning