RE: Have you ever dropped a deer in it' s tracks?
 

I will grunt some times to get them to stop when they are walking. Its awsome. I have yet to have a deer drop in his tracks. They all seem to run a little then drop.

RE: Have you ever dropped a deer in it' s tracks?
 

I dropped one that I hit much the way PABOWhntr explained his. The arrow stuck right in the middle of the spinal cord where it comes down between the shoulders. The four point was angling away a little. I hit a little forward clipping part of a lung but the deer never moved a muscle. I hit it again through the lungs to make sure it was just shocked. I could not get my arrow out until I cleaned the deer and it still took some doing to pull it out then. By the way I was on the ground walking to the truck when this deer ran right up on me at about 10 yards. I had missed the same deer from my stand about 45 minutes before that but he never knew what it was that spooked him. I could not believe it.

RE: Have you ever dropped a deer in it' s tracks?
 

About 25 years ago I was in a ladderstand in a cluster of large pines to hunt Deer feeding on falling apples under this huge apple tree. I had a large doe come in and stand broadside 15 yards away. I put a cedar shaft arrrow with a Bear Razor insert broadhead clean through both lungs. The yearly that was with her heard the string and jumped. The doe who was munching on an apple stood there, looked at the yearly, never moved an inch, not even a twich form the impart or cutting arrow, than after a few seconds just dropped dead in her tracks.
If I had not clearly seen the arrow hit her I would have thought I had a clean miss.

RE: Have you ever dropped a deer in it' s tracks?
 

nothing better than a spine shot hunting in the early " warm" season esp in the evening. no tracking required and dont have to worry about leaving it because of the heat.

RE: Have you ever dropped a deer in it' s tracks?
 

One deer and one elk, both with spine shots. Got nervous on the deer, my first muley, and put the 20 pin on the spot, but he was just 14 yards out, The elk caught the movement of the bow limbs and ducked down and back surprisingly quickly. Was able to get to each of them very quickly for a finishing shot to the heart, so can' t complain, but wouldn' t try to hit one there on purpose.

RE: Have you ever dropped a deer in it' s tracks?
 

I can' t say that I' ve dropped any right in their tracks, though I did shoot a small doe through the liver once that took one hop, looked around for a minute, became wobbly, fell over, and died within a few minutes.

I' ve shot a few through the lungs that dropped within sight (~25 yds), and much prefer that to worrying about an impending tracking job.

RE: Have you ever dropped a deer in it' s tracks?
 

Well I did spine shot a buck last year and I didnt want to tell the story for fear of giving the antis ammo against another bowhunter, but its all hear already so Ill tell my story. I saw the buck coming through the goldenrod and he stepped out onto a mowed path at 30-31 yards and I was shaking some with the curse of buck fever I drew and released and the arrow hit the spine in the half way down his back. The buck dropped in his tracks with all four legs sticking out straight. I thought to myself there is no way I killed him with that shot. Well the buck layed there for 20 to 30 seconds and then tried to get up and started flopping around on the path so I put another arrow in him as he was flopping around to try and finish him off, this arrow entered above the heart and traveled down to the shoulder. The buck then rights himself and is sitting up and starts to drag his backend like a dog when they rub their butt on the ground, so I knew his backend was paralized. I stood in my stand and watched as the buck drug his backend out of my sight , I stood there in disbelief and pondered what to do next, I could still hear the buck dragging himself through the goldenrod so I decided to climb down from my stand and walked to the spot where the buck entered the field of golden rod and was astonished to see the width of the trail of mashed down weeds left by the bucks hindend and the quaity of blood in the trail, the amount of blood was stagering. I stood there staring into the goldenrod continplating whether to go after the buck and try to finish him off or wait and let him lay down and hopefully expire soon.I wasnt sure if the shot would cause him to bleed out even though there was a ton of blood since I had never spine shot a deer before I didnt know if I had hit an artery running down the spine or not. I decided to go after the buck and finish the job. I followed the path left by the buck into the goldenrod and then down the ridge for a total distance of about 60 yards and found the buck laying in a slight ditch that borders the clover plot. I stood at 20 yards from the buck as he layed there looking me straight in the eyes and I knew what I had to do, I didnt like it but I had to do it . So as he watched me I drew and released a arrow straight into his heart he took a few deep breaths and then 1 long breath and as he exhalded I could hear the gurrgle as the blood filled his lungs and he exhaled one long breath as layed down his head and died. This was the worst experience to ever happen to me in my bowhunting years and one that I pray will never happen again.This was not the good clean quike kill I had practiced for.
I will practice day after day to insure that I never sucumb to buck fever again, and pray that history will not repeat its self again.

RE: Have you ever dropped a deer in it' s tracks?
 

I shot a deer in the neck with my 243 and dropped him. He expired without a sound and within a few minutes.

RE: Have you ever dropped a deer in it' s tracks?
 

They don' t typically die right away, but are instead paralyzed and require an additional shot. In my case, and a detail I did not add before, the buck layed on his side like a dog, and watched me draw and shoot him again. I was still in my treestand, but he caught the movement and saw me.

It was not a pleasant experience, and any bowhunter who claims to not be bothered by it is probably just putting on a " tough guy" act. I won' t name names. [:' (]

RE: Have you ever dropped a deer in it' s tracks?
 

Twice with a bow.

One was a spine shot doe which was my bad experience in bowhunting, much like other experiences already described. It took a double lung shot to finish.

The other was my very first deer ever with a bow that I jumped on a windy day in a grassy field. The deer spooked but to my surprise stopped, turned her head over her back and looked at me already at full draw at about 10 steps. I shot her in the femoral artery and she fell right there and was dead in 10 seconds. This was a 95 lb. (field dressed) Whitetail doe. Now that I' m more experienced, I probably would never take that shot, but man is it deadly!!