Shortest distance to recover your deer?
 

What's the shortest recovery you've ever had from point of impact to dead deer? I shot a big doe a few days ago that went22 yards from where my arrow was. It was a double lung and just nipped the heart. She didnt' really bolt out of there. She just hopped about 20 yards away , stopped, and fell over. She was actually in another shooting lane at that time and I could see the blood pumping out. Not sure if that was my shortest or not (with a bow), but it's the shortest I can remember in a long time.

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A small buck I shot last year fell in sight. He went about 30 yds and fell over.

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Mine was about 16 yrds. Pretty much just dropped in her tracks! I usually try and wait until they are pointed at my truck before I take the shot...Ha!

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30 yards

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my story is about the same as yours. double lunger, took everything off the top of the heart and passed right through..went 20 yards, stopped, looked around, tipped over dead. 21yd shot. i was surprised at the lack of a blood trail though...i tried back trailing to find my arrow. very sparse and only the last couple yards he went...but he was FULL inside...another second or 2 and it would been flowing like a river for sure..just never filled up to the holes...

i hope all my deer shot with a bow drop within sight...i dont like tracking deer, even if they are hit well.

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I have had several drop where I shot them. My two most memerable was one time I had momma and her two little ones. I shot momma she dropped and the little ones stayed right there. I shot the first little one and he bolted with the other one right behind. About 5 mins later he came back so I shot him too.

Another time I had a little six point. I drilled him and he jumped when hit but then went right back to eating. He fell over about 30 secs or so later.

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I shot a doe, last year at 7 yds. First shot literally pinned her to the ground. She went 0 yds. I ended up shooting her2 times in a short few seconds.

Story is here...

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One fell on the spot due to spine shot but for a lung or heart shot about 20yds

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Other than spine shots. 5 yds. It was a 10 yd shot, he went 5 yds sideways, i think he was about 12 yds from my tree when it was all said and done.

This was a perfect double lung, he just didn't run away at the shot.

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About, 15 yards. The first one I ever killed w/ a bow, actually. I put a horrible shot on her, went in just above the spine and came out her back thigh. But I cut both the femoral artery and the one that runs down their back, and blood was squirting everwhere. She went down pretty fast.

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Shortest bow track: 35 yards with a bull elk. Shot him as he tried to get past me to the "cows" 30 yards behind me. At the shot, he turned, ran in a semi-circle, stopped turned back to face me and the "cows" and tipped over.

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The 6 pointer I killed last year was hit behind the last rib quartering away, I took out the diaphrahm, liver, both lungs, and clipped the heart as well and the arrow passed through the armpit on the far side. He went less than 5 yards from where I shot him and dropped in a heap.

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15 yards on a doe the other night.

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Spine shot a doe that went down on the spot wasn't proud of the shot but the recovery was sure easy.

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One rifle shot and one muzzleloader shot both dropped on the spot (Double shoulder and neck shots respectively), and my shortest bow shot deer went about 10 yds. I cut the femeral artery below the spine, he took two leaps, and dropped dead. All in all, he was alive for about 2 seconds from the time of impact until he was dead.

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A few years back i shot a 5 point at 10 yards,,,it never took a step, it bleed out right there, teeter tottered back and forth and tipped over and died...all within about 3 mins time.
Come to find out after gutting himl, i made a perfet heart shot:)

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Shot a great 6 point once thatfell about 10 yards from where i hit him.He actually ran about 30 yards, but he ran away, then turned around, ran towards where i shot him and he fell over. I love when you see them fall.

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3 yds from where i shot the doe. One bound and than dead.

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On the spot. Had an 8 point take one in the heart and both lungs, jump up, look around and fall over. Dead on the spot. Love when that happens.

I also had a doe drop on the spot. I was using a mechanical head, I think steal heads, the spiral cut kind (which is a P.O.S.). The head has a helical set on the blades so when it hits something, it torques the arrow. Which sucks. Any way, I shot this doe, the arrow entered and went through on lung, turned and headed straight up the animal. (thanks to that crap spiral design), and imbedded in the does spine. She droped on the spot. Id rather her have taken a clean pass through and run than to have a crap head twist up in her and not penetrate for crap. In this case it was not that bad, but I did shoot a hog that these heads would only sink a few inches in. Ive got plenty of KE on the bow I was shooting, the heads just suck. I tossed them right after the sec. use.

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If I remember right, on "Beyond the Kill" Walt hit a big buck and it went down almost immediately.

I was kind of surprised by that.

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Shortest 0 yards, spine shot.

Longest about 3 miles.

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I have shot 4 different deer that have gone 30 yards and fell overwhile bow hunting!I justlove my 3 bladesnuffer broadheads!

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mine was about 5 yards. She was standing on the edge of a creek about 5 feet above the water. I hit her and she rolled down into the creek andtried taking a few steps but didn't make it.

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My first deer ever was a nice 9-point from the ground. He walked past me about 12-yards and I shot him at about 17 with a nice quartering angle. He hoped twice and landed with his front legs still bent. He died mid-air!
Altogether I think he went about 25-feet from impact.

Other than that, I hit one with a spine-shot at about 15-feet. I also hit the aortic(sp?) artery that runs along the spine. I still put another through the lungs, but he would have been gone in about the same amount of time. It was all over inlittle overa minute.

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Same here, last year's buck went zero yards....dropped in his tracks, followed up two shots.

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First buck I ever killed, 6pt., ran 40 yards looked back and dropped. Straight thru the heart.

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First Deer I ever killed with a bow. DRT (dead right there) and this was not a spine shot.

I was walking slow during very high wind, wind in my face, when a doe jumped up out of a grass field. I was 7 yards from her when she jumped. Well she jumped up but did not run so I performed the famous Texas heart shot (OK, I was an inexperienced bowhunter at the time (1982)). The arrow whacked the femoral artery and she fell, started kicking, and was dead in 10 seconds. She field-dressed at 90 lbs which ain't bad for GA.

What a first deer to get you hooked!!!

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The last five deer ive killed with a bow have fell within sight. The shortest dropped in its tracks, longest was about 50yds.

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Spine shot. 0 yards. Dropped in his tracks. He fell so hard his front hoof flew over his antlers and got stuck.

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Mr Java took one at 10 yards and he ran 10 yards and dropped..

So far, mine is approx 70 yards.

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Had 5 or 6 0ver the years go down with spine shots on the spot. Had a bull caribou go down on impact with a spine shot this October. One of the more memorable ones that died only 5 yards after impact was an 8 point that was feeding on acorns my way, at 15 yards,I double lunged him, the buck jumped straight up and landed back on his feet, looked around confused and then, get this, started eating acorns again. I could see him pouring out of both sides, he then tries to lick the exit hole and instead, just tipped over right there. After a brief struggle on the ground, gave it up. that one brought a tear to my eye, well maybe not [&o]. Food for tought on this thread, if you want a short tracking job with the highest percent of a short recovery,take the double lung every time, Think hard about what broadhead your useing, I don't want my arrow blowing through both sides of a whitetails rib cage and the burying it'self 6 inces into the ground. If you have that much WASTED KE, then you need to consider a larger cutting broadhead, remember if you move up from a 1 inch cut to an 1 1/2 inch cut on a 3 blade, you cut 21 inhces MORE of tissue, thats a ton more hemorrageing and a lot shorter blood trail. Don't get me wrong here, I want my arrow passing through rib cage for sure, but I want that extra unused Kinetic Energy to cut tissue and not rock, dirt and trees.This is why guys like the Drury boys shoot the biggest mechanicals their rigs can handle. Do the same and your blood trails will get markedly shorter. DFA

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The first buck I killed was an 11 point and he went 20 yards and died. He was double lunged. The 2nd buck 2 days later jumped the string badly and I hit him right in the rump but the arrow criscrossed his body and came out his front shoulder. He died very close too.

But last year I was in a tree stand and the arrow hit my 8 pointer 33 yards away in what would have been a 12 ring shot on a 3d target at a down angle and the arrow exited out his spine on the top!!! The deer made a sound like a linebacker hit him andwas flipped overon his back with all 4 feet in the air.
I have no clue how that happened but the deer was DRT. I have never seen anything like it ever. Not even a rifle hit has ever flipped a deer over on to his back like that.
Talk about KE.

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I've spined a few and dropped them in their tracks, shortest heart shot was about 40 yards