Couldn't find my deer today...
11-10-2009, 04:13 PM
#1
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Kalamazoo, Mi
Posts: 196
Couldn't find my deer today...
Well guys I shot my first deer today with my bow. It was a really nice buck. He came in at about 20 yards slightly quartering towards me. As I released on him he took a step forward and I hit him a little ways back. It looked like a liver shot to me from the hit and when I found some blood. I had a complete pass through, however the arrow did not smell or anything.
I started tracking him after about 30 minutes. Didn't find any good blood for the first like 50 yards, then I found some nice pools of blood. I ended up slowly tracking him until an hour after dark when I lost the trail. I am planning on going out in the morning to look some more, but he went into some really really thick cover so we will see if I can find him. I shot him with a Slick Trick magnum 100 gr. out of a '08 Bowtech Guardian 62 lbs. 10 minutes after I sat in the treestand. Any help would be great guys.
Here's the thread http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/bowh...-ever-bow.html
I started tracking him after about 30 minutes. Didn't find any good blood for the first like 50 yards, then I found some nice pools of blood. I ended up slowly tracking him until an hour after dark when I lost the trail. I am planning on going out in the morning to look some more, but he went into some really really thick cover so we will see if I can find him. I shot him with a Slick Trick magnum 100 gr. out of a '08 Bowtech Guardian 62 lbs. 10 minutes after I sat in the treestand. Any help would be great guys.
Here's the thread http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/bowh...-ever-bow.html
Last edited by joemr1288; 11-12-2009 at 07:09 PM.
11-10-2009, 04:18 PM
#2
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Burleson Texas
Posts: 12,560
That sucks big time, I know it happened to me last week. The biggest buck I've ever shot in my life and lost the blood trail. I hit him a little high at forty five yards, he went down like someone hit him between the eyes with a baseball bat. He got up after five minutes and I never saw him again.
Good luck on finding him tomorrow.
Good luck on finding him tomorrow.
11-10-2009, 04:24 PM
#5
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: North Lima Ohio & Clarion Pa
Posts: 6,453
Originally Posted by fingerz42
Your first mistake was taking up a blood trail after ten minutes on a deer you thought you liver shot. Read the sticky about tracking.
He said 30 minutes and thats more than enough time for a liver shot.
11-10-2009, 04:27 PM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Poconos, PA
Posts: 1,712
Should of waited longer than 30 minutes to look for him but hopefully you can still find him in the morning. With a questionable shot you should of waited till the morning to look. Just make sure you look as much as you can and do a grid search over the whole area. good luck
11-10-2009, 04:30 PM
#8
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Kalamazoo, Mi
Posts: 196
Ya I know, but the problem is I live over 40 minutes away from where I can hunt, and I have class in the morning, so I needed to at least try and find him. I however did not push him when I was tracking him.
11-10-2009, 04:40 PM
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Eldred, PA
Posts: 1,667
I hear ya joe.. I have to do the same thing. Sometimes you gotta do what ya gotta do. Good luck finding him. Go back in the morning if you can and go over the trail again. If he went into a thicket, hes in it somewhere.
