What are the odds?
12-10-2007, 03:09 PM
#1
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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What are the odds?
I shot a great buck Saturday morning (8 am) and I had an arrow deflection that caused the arrow to hit him in the liver. At least that's the only ting I can figure anyway, because he was 20 yds and broadside. Anyway, he jumps back a little and starts looking around...he has no idea he's been hit. He starts walking off real slow, so I grunt at him and he stops. He starts walking off slow again so I grunt & snort wheeze, and he stops again. He looks around and continues on. I watch him walk over the ridge. I ease out of the stand about 45 minutes later and go get my arrow. It's covered in dark blood and grit, so I mark it with another arrow and I ease out of there. I come back that night around 6 pm, and we start to track the deer. We find 5 or 6 specs of blood over a 150 yd stretch and then nothing after that. We go back the next day and comb the area, but again no other signs, Now this a a small hardwood draw with a grownover clearcut on one side and planted pines on the other. My gut feeling is that he's laying out in the clearcut, but I have nothing to go on, other than a gut feeling because that's where he came from. What are the odds of finding this deer? It's in the mid 70's here and we are covered in coyotes on this property. I'm in hopes that the buzzards or coyotes will lead me to him. It has been eating me alive that I haven't been able to recover this deer!
12-10-2007, 04:37 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Manassas, VA
Posts: 3,612
RE: What are the odds?
The only other thing you could have done is be completely silent. Sometimes they will just walk off and bed down within 50 yards if you don't push them. I think by snort wheezing that you probably pushed him out of fear...he was wounded and couldnt defend himself so he probably walked a good long way....I would look for the thickest nastiest cover you can find within 100 yards and start combing it.
