I shot a doe tonight. She was broadside and I was on the ground. Shot was a little forward. After I hit her she took off and ran about 30 yards, stopped and looked back. Then after a minute or two she took off again to the edge of the timber than started eating again for a few more minutes. When she took off I noticed her limping a little. She dissapeared into the timber after a few minutes of feeding. I waited for while, found the arrow and have good blood going in a corn field. But since I watched her for so long I decided to back out and wait for awhile.

Half of the BH blade is broke. The arrow and bright red kind of watery looking blood on it. It was a passthrough. Anyone wanna help me out as to where you think I shot her or how long I should wait?

Tough to say what you hit. Once an arrow hits a bone anything can happen. If your unsure wait a minimum of about 6 hours then go looking for her. If ya jump her after that try and check her bed for blood w/o jumpin her again and back out till morning. If she was seriously wounded and ya didn't spook her she shouldn't be far. If she was gut shot at all she'll probably head for water.

I once shot a buck at about 10 yards. It ran about 15 yards and started eating again like nothing happened. After about 5 minutes he just walked away. I backed out and waited about 5 hours. found him dead in a bed about 50 yards away.

Hope that helps

So, you did not see were you hit her? Best advice I could give is wait until morning and go pickup the trail at were you found the arrow. Chances are if it is a pass through towards the front of the body she did not go far before she bedded down. Unless the passed through you described was in her leg then she may survive, either way you need to spend some time tomm. morning at first light looking for her.


Dave

I would guess that you hit the shoulder blade, at least that would be my explanation for the broken blade on your BH. If there was no trace of heart or lung matter on your arrow i'd give her till morning before you put pressure on her. hopefully she'll have bled out by then. I've never been in that kind of scenario though so my 2 cents really doesn't mean anything, hope it helps you out anyway. good luck finding her, let me know how it turns out.

Waited for 4 hours and went back out. Picked up the trail in a corn field and followed it for a coulple hundred yards. It started out pretty easy to follow, then she went in the timber and the blood got spotty. Then it got even harder to follow. We were finding pin head size drops every few yards for 40 or 50 yards. Then all of a sudden there started to be bigger and bigger drops then almost like puddles. We followed that for 20 yards or so and found where she had bedded down in between some hay bails and there was all kinds of blood in there. It looked like she bedded in a couple different spots. And the blood appeared to be pretty fresh so I decided to stop and hopefully she bedded down close by and she'll die there over night. Right after she got up from her bed in the bails there was a large red and black chunck of something along the blood trail. I don't know what it could be. I'm heading back out in the morning to pick it back up. From the looks of it where we left off, I don't think she will be very far.

Good luck

Went back out this morning and picked up where I had left off. After taking a few steps along the trail, two coyotes took off from a fence frow about 70 yards away. I went straight there and found my doe, or what was left or her. They pretty much had her picked clean.

I couldn't really tell where the shot hit her. From the looks of the hide it was foward and went through the shoulder blade on the right side, but I couldn't tell where it had exited. Where she laid was about 200 yards from where she had been shot.

This is the second deer in two years that I've lost to the yotes. Last year I waited till morning before I did any tracking. This year I waited a few hours then attempted to track her. But I feel I made the right decision back backing out aftering finding where she had bedded. The blood was fresh where I found the bed. I didn't want to continue on and jump her. She could have went on all night then. It just make me feel awful to know that the meat went to waste instead of in my freezer.

Sorry the yotes got her