i shot a buck just above his shoulder through his neck as he was walking away. i pulled the shot high for some reason. i feel terrible about it. its the first time ive wounded a nice buck. the blood trail was real good at first and then got to small drops. has anyone ever hit a deer here and do you think he will survive. i spent hours on two separate occasions looking with no luck. this was late nov before the snow.

SOunds like a muscle shot. more than likely he will be fine. What color was the blood?

the blood was bright red

the deer is surely dead now.

If the hit was above the spine he probably lost a good bit of blood but not enough to kill em. wounds clot fast on deer, he probably went a ways, laid down for a while, then began his recovery.

He most likely will live if he was not starving for blood flow to the brain.

Bright red, probably dead.

I say odds are he will live .If it was me I would have looked till I knew.Sometimes that has taken me more than 14 days .I have lost a lot of sleep over bad hits in my 35 years of hunting.

Same Here!!

Dan

I lost a huge elk to a white out . After the shot I stood there for 5 min. and couldn't see my own tracks ,10 min. later you could not see 5 feet away.He was buried under 20" of snow never to be found.My guts filling sour thinking about this subject.