Need Your Help Guys - Hit One!
11-16-2007, 05:07 PM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Missouri
Posts: 3,763
RE: Need Your Help Guys - Hit One!
I agree. I think that you got some guts as well as liver. You did the right thing of course by backing out. I would give him atleast till morning and then head in for him. I think he will be laying dead not too far. Keep us posted. Good luck!
11-16-2007, 05:16 PM
#14
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Dover, PA USA
Posts: 5,497
RE: Need Your Help Guys - Hit One!
I'm a little perplexed as to how the first 2/3rds have blood and the rear 1/3 has fresh gut material on it? Trying to wrap my mind around why the entire arrow wouldn't be fairly consistent with respect to sign since the fletching obviously follows the same path as the broadhead.
In any event You hit stomach for sure........thats the only KNOWN in this instance. The fresh green sign can only come from the stomach itself so treat it as a straight gut shot animal and assume no more.
The deer will want to bed within 100 yds most likely but don't expect to find it in the first spot it lays down. Expect to possibly find an empty bed with blood, many times the discomfort will cause the animal to get up and rebed several times before expiring. You also have the possibility of no blood beyond that spot as the wound clogs and clots so don't go rushing ahead and be prepared to shoot again...ya never know.
Go slow, don't expect a bunch of blood and with or without any sign he should be laying fairly close by and hope a dog, coyote or something else doesn't push him out of his bed because there is the possibility of a long bolt somewhere with no sign in between.
I'm not going to paint a rosy picture I'm sorry.......most likely the deer is dead by morning but the recovery has the potential to be tricky so go slow and above all else don't panic. If you find yourself with no sign, remember your brain is considerably bigger than his (I assume
) so break it down piece by piece and eliminate possibilities.
Here's hoping you walk right up to a stone dead deer with some gastric artery or livercut or something, but prepare yourself mentally for a puzzle. The stomach is a big organ especially if he was feeding heavily and even quartering away its easy to hit it and ONLY it.
In any event You hit stomach for sure........thats the only KNOWN in this instance. The fresh green sign can only come from the stomach itself so treat it as a straight gut shot animal and assume no more.
The deer will want to bed within 100 yds most likely but don't expect to find it in the first spot it lays down. Expect to possibly find an empty bed with blood, many times the discomfort will cause the animal to get up and rebed several times before expiring. You also have the possibility of no blood beyond that spot as the wound clogs and clots so don't go rushing ahead and be prepared to shoot again...ya never know.
Go slow, don't expect a bunch of blood and with or without any sign he should be laying fairly close by and hope a dog, coyote or something else doesn't push him out of his bed because there is the possibility of a long bolt somewhere with no sign in between.
I'm not going to paint a rosy picture I'm sorry.......most likely the deer is dead by morning but the recovery has the potential to be tricky so go slow and above all else don't panic. If you find yourself with no sign, remember your brain is considerably bigger than his (I assume
) so break it down piece by piece and eliminate possibilities.Here's hoping you walk right up to a stone dead deer with some gastric artery or livercut or something, but prepare yourself mentally for a puzzle. The stomach is a big organ especially if he was feeding heavily and even quartering away its easy to hit it and ONLY it.
11-16-2007, 05:19 PM
#15
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Northern IL
Posts: 213
RE: Need Your Help Guys - Hit One!
ORIGINAL: Matt / PA
I'm a little perplexed as to how the first 2/3rds have blood and the rear 1/3 has fresh gut material on it? Trying to wrap my mind around why the entire arrow wouldn't be fairly consistent with respect to sign since the fletching obviously follows the same path as the broadhead.
In any event You hit stomach for sure........thats the only KNOWN in this instance. The fresh green sign can only come from the stomach itself so treat it as a straight gut shot animal and assume no more.
The deer will want to bed within 100 yds most likely but don't expect to find it in the first spot it lays down. Expect to possibly find an empty bed with blood, many times the discomfort will cause the animal to get up and rebed several times before expiring. You also have the possibility of no blood beyond that spot as the wound clogs and clots so don't go rushing ahead and be prepared to shoot again...ya never know.
Go slow, don't expect a bunch of blood and with or without any sign he should be laying fairly close by and hope a dog, coyote or something else doesn't push him out of his bed because there is the possibility of a long bolt somewhere with no sign in between.
I'm not going to paint a rosy picture I'm sorry.......most likely the deer is dead by morning but the recovery has the potential to be tricky so go slow and above all else don't panic. If you find yourself with no sign, remember your brain is considerably bigger than his (I assume) so break it down piece by piece and eliminate possibilities.
Here's hoping you walk right up to a stone dead deer with some gastric artery or livercut or something, but prepare yourself mentally for a puzzle. The stomach is a big organ especially if he was feeding heavily and even quartering away its easy to hit it and ONLY it.
I'm a little perplexed as to how the first 2/3rds have blood and the rear 1/3 has fresh gut material on it? Trying to wrap my mind around why the entire arrow wouldn't be fairly consistent with respect to sign since the fletching obviously follows the same path as the broadhead.
In any event You hit stomach for sure........thats the only KNOWN in this instance. The fresh green sign can only come from the stomach itself so treat it as a straight gut shot animal and assume no more.
The deer will want to bed within 100 yds most likely but don't expect to find it in the first spot it lays down. Expect to possibly find an empty bed with blood, many times the discomfort will cause the animal to get up and rebed several times before expiring. You also have the possibility of no blood beyond that spot as the wound clogs and clots so don't go rushing ahead and be prepared to shoot again...ya never know.
Go slow, don't expect a bunch of blood and with or without any sign he should be laying fairly close by and hope a dog, coyote or something else doesn't push him out of his bed because there is the possibility of a long bolt somewhere with no sign in between.
I'm not going to paint a rosy picture I'm sorry.......most likely the deer is dead by morning but the recovery has the potential to be tricky so go slow and above all else don't panic. If you find yourself with no sign, remember your brain is considerably bigger than his (I assume
) so break it down piece by piece and eliminate possibilities.Here's hoping you walk right up to a stone dead deer with some gastric artery or livercut or something, but prepare yourself mentally for a puzzle. The stomach is a big organ especially if he was feeding heavily and even quartering away its easy to hit it and ONLY it.
11-16-2007, 05:28 PM
#16
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location:
Posts: 86
RE: Need Your Help Guys - Hit One!
Same thing happened to me and my deer was still alive the next day. i never did find it either. he should be dead. good luck.
ORIGINAL: sea_bee77
hes a dead deer but i would carry my bow in just in case you spook him. i had a buddy that hit a deer in the guts and he was still alive next day. good luck.
hes a dead deer but i would carry my bow in just in case you spook him. i had a buddy that hit a deer in the guts and he was still alive next day. good luck.
11-16-2007, 06:05 PM
#19
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: West Virginia
Posts: 510
RE: Need Your Help Guys - Hit One!
Same thing happened to my wife last week shot the buck he ran about 30 yards stopped and then walked off. She got liver and guts found him about 100 yards away the next morning. He dead get him in the morning
