lost blood trail
 

My friend shot a deer broadside 10 yards passthrough. There is tons of blood everywhere but there is no end to the trail. We searched 3 hours. We got the arrow back blood from broadhead to nock. We found pools of blood but no darn deer. I realy think that its down but we can't find a end to blood.

thanks for the help you guys and gals rock.
good hunting to ya too

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Where did he hit it?
How long did you wait until you started tracking?
How far did you track?
Exactly when was it hit?

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I'm confused, your title to this post is lost blood trail, but you state that you can't find an end to the blood. Which is it? If you're finding blood, keep going, unless you don't want to push the deer and need to back out and give it time to expire.

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The end of the blood trail doesn't end the hunt either if the deer isn't there. However, in this case you haven't even reached the end of the best sign. Keep following the blood trail and you may find the deer at the end of it. Don't stop now.

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It sounds like you may be pushing the deer. You may do your self a faver and back off for a while and give the deer a chance to bed down.

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I feel your pain.

I hit a doe this morning at 8:00. Pass through shot, even flipped her over. Found my arrow covered with hair and meat and blood. Even found the blood trail. but it ended and after 7 hours, still no deer.

This is a first for not finding the deer I hit and I am SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Could not hunt tonight.

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Keep traking

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so you AND your buddy have each wounded a deer this year..... Either learn how to shoot or learn how to track.

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ouch!

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I'da kept going till the blood let out anyway. Its a good idea to wait a bit for the deer to die so you dont just keep jumping it.
It can be that the deer was wandering around crosssing its own track if you cant find the end. I had one last year was driving me crazy. It went thru a thickett & back around & thru again, took some unravelling but I found blood again aways to the side where she finally really left & ended up finding her.
I'v lost them before, it happens & while some guys will say it never happened to them, might be theyre just lucky. Could be tomorows the day they'll stick one & lose it or maybe they just won't admit it happened to them.
Whatever, good luck recovering your deer.

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We are having a hard time finding it the blood trail ended but with no deer in sight we looked in a complet circle we are sure its down we cant find blood it ran in a circle. The deal is that its down we can't find it. It lost at least a pint of blood which i belive is enough to take down a person.

And to rbohunter we found out what happened to mine it was a miss we found the arrow in the dirt thanks to positive members[:-]. This is to help not hurt:(. We started bowhunting by are selfs so this is how i get hunting smarts.:eek:

and to others thanks and have a safe season.

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i feel your pain i hit one tonight tracked her for like 400yds she just dripped drops the whole way not much 2 follow than she just quit looked for 2hrs tryin 2 find blood again made circles got 4 more people we didnt find anything. I just hope she survivies. The heartaches of bowhunting. :(

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primetime........a pint of blood is not enough to drop a human let alone a whitetail. You said there was a ton of blood. Did the blood trail slowly peter out or did it end abruuptly? You may want to check to see that she did not double back on you. Were there any pools of blood where she may have laid down? If legal in your area a dog is a great help. They have found me deer when I never would have found them............dabow

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Well I am glad your 1st one turned out to be a miss, I did not see the update.
It is tough going at it on your own, but there is TONS of info available on this sight, the tracking thread especially. Please read it again, even if you've already done so, there is a lot there.
Blood on the ground is VERY decieving as to how much is actually there. Remember a blood spot on a leaf is quite thin.
Sometimes harsh words are neccessary to get a point across. If a person makes mistakes but gets nothing other than "aw its ok, it happens to everyone just go try again" the person may never have it sink in that what they are doing needs changed. Sometimes having it told to you point blank makes you realize that its not always ok, and you need to figure something out to keep from making the same mistakes over and over. I sure don't want you to keep losing deer, I want you to get information and use your brain to apply it to your situations.

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Not even close to enough.

Look at water sources and grid search.


I think you need a little more education, here are a few good books. One is on tracking dogs, but there is a lot of good info on wounded deer. The other is a must read.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...books&n=507846


http://www.born-to-track.com/book/order-info.htm

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rybohunter...tough, but all to true...

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If the bolld trail ended abruptly the deer may have bleed out. Last season I put a double lung hit on a deer and it only went 75 yards and crashed but because it got out of sight and when I started tracking it was dark I couldn't just walk up and grab him. I tracked him to last blood and was stumped. After another 45 minutes of seaching I found him with in 30 feet of last blood burried in little thicket of spruce trees. He appears to have bleed out and got a couple last leaps in before crashing into the thicket.

Stick with it. look near water and look straight ahead. If he was hit good he should be close by. Good luck!

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Adams, I am curious as to what type of blade you were using.

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I was using a Satelite 3 blade TNT mag. I've tried to find more but I'm not sure if they had been discontinued or what. They were the best flying heads I have shot and they put a heck of a hole on a deer. Every once in a while I see someon ebay but I'm hesitant to buy what might amount to crap. This year I'm shooting muzzy 125g 3 balde heads.

I miss the satelites though:(:D

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Make sure to check the sellers reviews. I bought some real nice stuff there.

The reason I asked is because I had similar circumstances but with 2 bladed heads on a few deer. The difference was that I had virtually no blood to follow on double lunged deer. I shot one of them at dusk and I thought I heard her go down but I was not 100%. I waited about an hour before looking for her (with a friend), It was a passthrough but no blood. It took us about an hour to find her and she only went about 50 yards from the shot, clearly double lunged.

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I know it feels losing a deer. I hit a small buck last year, slightly too far forward, probably on teh shoulder bone and my arrow broke off half fell out. we had no blood, and we searched late that night and almost half the next day, making circles and such. i dont know if he lived or not, hopefully he lived. i still feel bad to this day about it.

slyaer

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Regardless of what some say about this. We all make mistakes. Ive lost a deer myself. Were not machines and mistakes happen. Just keep looking and read up on tracking deer and shot placement.

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good luck