Big Bug Down-Neighbor got my wounded bow buclk
11-22-2009, 10:00 AM
#1
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: central wi
Posts: 245
Big Bug Down-Neighbor got my wounded bow buclk
For all of those who remember my post about hitting a 150" 11 pointer w/ my bow and not finding it on October 28th....Yesterday here in central wisconsin (opening day firearms) he shot it at about 1:30. We had asked him the night before opener if he had seen this buck and we had shown him pictures....we figured he may have died because we had 0 sign of him. He said maybe but wasn't sure. Well last night he walked in the shack and said "I got the split G2 11!!"
I walk out and checked him out....sure as sh*t that was him...the neighbor had hit him about a 1.5 inches lower then my shot. The buck had a huge knot/cist on his back and I think some arrow and the head are still in him we will see when it is caped...
I'm glad some1 got to kill him............moral of the story is, Yes, there is a no kill zone!!!
I walk out and checked him out....sure as sh*t that was him...the neighbor had hit him about a 1.5 inches lower then my shot. The buck had a huge knot/cist on his back and I think some arrow and the head are still in him we will see when it is caped...
I'm glad some1 got to kill him............moral of the story is, Yes, there is a no kill zone!!!
11-22-2009, 01:41 PM
#2
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 124
Too Bad
I didnt go back to your original post; but yup, I hit an elk about 3" below the spine and got blood on the arrow, little chunks of meat and a few drops of blood. Followed the tracks/blood drops for over a mile until the ground got too hard to see tracks. never found it. There is a "No Man's land" between the spine and the organs as seen in this skeletal view. Better luck next time 
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11-23-2009, 02:28 PM
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Moravia NY USA
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I didnt go back to your original post; but yup, I hit an elk about 3" below the spine and got blood on the arrow, little chunks of meat and a few drops of blood. Followed the tracks/blood drops for over a mile until the ground got too hard to see tracks. never found it. There is a "No Man's land" between the spine and the organs as seen in this skeletal view. Better luck next time
Animals can occasionally survive a high lung hit, but there is no area below the spine with no vitals from the back of livr/kidneys to the front of the lungs.
11-23-2009, 03:42 PM
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Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Oct 1998
Location: Hughesville, PA USA
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I didnt go back to your original post; but yup, I hit an elk about 3" below the spine and got blood on the arrow, little chunks of meat and a few drops of blood. Followed the tracks/blood drops for over a mile until the ground got too hard to see tracks. never found it. There is a "No Man's land" between the spine and the organs as seen in this skeletal view. Better luck next time
There absolutely IS NOT!
Show me in this diagram below how you can possible hit below the spine and not hit the lungs. (Both of you went over the spinal cord or got one lung and it lived!
11-24-2009, 07:46 AM
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 2,445
Now that right there is hard to argue with! That's what I've said all along.
This year I shot a doe, and from the stand it looked like a perfect hit elevation wise. When I got to the deer I thought, hey, that looks like a high hit. Ended up just under the spine.
I think that what a lot of guys see from the treestand fools them into thinking they hit the deer below the spine, because you see more of the deer's back from an elevated position. Deer hit above the spine with an arrow will normally live to see another day.
This year I shot a doe, and from the stand it looked like a perfect hit elevation wise. When I got to the deer I thought, hey, that looks like a high hit. Ended up just under the spine.
I think that what a lot of guys see from the treestand fools them into thinking they hit the deer below the spine, because you see more of the deer's back from an elevated position. Deer hit above the spine with an arrow will normally live to see another day.
11-24-2009, 09:41 AM
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Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 721
Here's a pic of a buck I shot a couple seasons back. You can see a second wound above where my brother in law had a complete pass thru a few days earlier. Buck came into the grunt call when I got him and looked as fit as a fiddle.
