Bad shot
10-24-2008, 01:53 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 247
Bad shot
Guys well I hate to say this that I but a bad shoot on a deer. She was moving and I thought she had stopped. I got liver and stomach by the sign I saw. I hate this I gave her 4 hours and then started tracking her I tracked her for 300 yards and then the sign disappeared. I hate this. Man I feel so bad that I couldnt find her.
10-24-2008, 01:59 PM
#5
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 247
RE: Bad shot
Droptine This happened yesterday morning @ 745. I had to be at work for late shift and then this morning back at work until 4pm. I also am stationed in florida it was 80 yesterday so she aint doin to good. I plan on tommorrow at lunch to go back and look for her. I know that it happens but this is my first. Man this feeling sucks.
10-24-2008, 02:00 PM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Horseheads NY
Posts: 1,138
RE: Bad shot
Don't beat your self up. The shot may be doing more damage than you think. If you didn't hear her crash by all means wait, don't push her. I thought I made a bad shot today on my 7 point and he went down in 70 yards. I caught 1 lung, but it must have got a pretty good artery or something. I watch my Lunanok go right into his stomach and swar I would have to look for him allot later. I got lucky I guess. Don't give up, you will find her.
10-24-2008, 02:02 PM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Southern Illinois
Posts: 1,559
RE: Bad shot
A deer shot in the liver will die for sure. I think we all could use a little more information. What time did youhit it, what time did you stop looking, did you ever jump the deer. If you never jumped the deer, she is out there. Start grid searches from the spot of last blood, a liver shot deer should bleed out fairly quick, I am positive if you hit her liver she is dead already and she might not be that far from where you stopped looking. Good luck and keep us posted.
10-24-2008, 02:03 PM
#9
Spike
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location:
Posts: 19
RE: Bad shot
Anytime any hunter makes a bad shot (which happens alot by the way)and can retrieve a deer or any animal for that matter it makes us as hunters feel bad. But look at it this way, we just gave a family of coyetes and raccoons dinner. Sad that you could retrieve it tho. But it happens to the best of us...
10-24-2008, 02:07 PM
#10
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 247
RE: Bad shot
I shot her at 745 am. Got out of the tree 30 minutes later looked at my arrow. Didnt look to good lots of blood just very little lung blood. I think I nicked the lung and bunched the liver. Got out of there. Went back at 1145 had extremely dark blood pools in some places but never where she layed down. Then tracked for about 300 yards never found her. Did grid searching by myself and never even saw sign looked in every down tree every where didnt find her. I looked for about 2 hours.