Question out of curiosity
12-06-2009, 10:13 AM
#1
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Oct 2009
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Question out of curiosity
How many of you guys have ever recovered a deer after shooting it in the shoulder and only getting 3 inches of penetration?jesus im getting ripped apart here after a questionable hit i backed out I knew it wasnt a lung shot or heat shot. So i backed out and went back the following morning this question was written because I never recovered the deer so I was wondering how many of you have recovreed deer wit that much penetration
Last edited by scribbler444; 12-07-2009 at 06:50 AM.
12-06-2009, 02:10 PM
#2
Typical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Nanjemoy, MD
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None with just 3" - but I have recovered two shoulder-hit deer while volunteer sight-tracking on the local Navy Base over the past 21 years. There was no penetration into the boiler room on either deer - and both deer were killed with follow-up shots while they were bedded. I think deer are quite capable of surviving a shoulder hit that fails to penetrate into the vitals.
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12-06-2009, 02:50 PM
#5
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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I don't know the exact penetration, but it was VERY little one time when I hit a doe in the shoulder, they arrow fell out fairly quickly, but I still recovered her. SHe had lost decent amount of blood we followed her up & put another one in her.
12-06-2009, 06:03 PM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Roanoke, Virginia
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If I am correct this is the guy that posted that he stopped tracking his deer after "getting 3 inches of penetration"
12-06-2009, 06:40 PM
#8
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Detroit, MI
Posts: 221
If ur going to hunt then you better track. I once spent three days tracking a shoulder shot doe. Came up on her several times but couldnt get another shot in. I finally had to quit when the sign stopped and I did a body search for 5 hrs. A deer hit in the shoulder will survive, but just because you think that you got 3 inches doesn't mean that you did. You owe it to the animal to make every attempt to track and recover.
12-06-2009, 08:09 PM
#9
Fork Horn
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I searched for 6 hours trust me I was very proud to have shot this deer I backed out overnight and went back and couldnt find anything. I am a firm believe to search as much as possible and try the hardest to track down a deer. The deer did not ask to be shot and a responsible hunter always does his ultimate best to locate his deer
12-07-2009, 02:06 AM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Moravia NY USA
Posts: 2,164
Several jumped him on the other thread WITHOUT reading the whole post.