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10-25-2002, 09:27 AM
#4
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Adirondack Moutains USA Member since sept/02
Posts: 1,639
RE: HELP. . . .
sorry about your lose. If you can find the last place that you saw blood start there. What you need to do is start searching in circles around the blood spot. Sometimes a deer will backtrack. good luck.
10-25-2002, 09:49 AM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 2,568
RE: HELP. . . .
model722, welcome to the board and I agree with you. Alot of times deer will stand in one spot and then go back the way they come from and then go in a different direction.
Tracking a deer after an bow shot requires alot of thought. The first being how good of a shot did I make. Always, no matter how good, give the deer time to lay down and die. If it's a double lunger, that time doesn't have to be but about 30 minutes. If your not sure of the shot, go somewhere and have breakfast or whatever and give the deer 3 or 4 hours to die before trying to track the deer. Otherwise, your going to push him all over the state.
Tracking a deer after an bow shot requires alot of thought. The first being how good of a shot did I make. Always, no matter how good, give the deer time to lay down and die. If it's a double lunger, that time doesn't have to be but about 30 minutes. If your not sure of the shot, go somewhere and have breakfast or whatever and give the deer 3 or 4 hours to die before trying to track the deer. Otherwise, your going to push him all over the state.
10-25-2002, 12:09 PM
#7
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Southern MD USA
Posts: 436
RE: HELP. . . .
Try to think about where the deer would be running to... and Then also like the others have said back track. Deer do crazy things after they have been hit... Look for tracks, turned up leaves broken linbs on trees, blood on leaves that are on small bushes... Remember that blood does not have to be on the ground. He could have brushed up against a tree and left a spot even though it was not dripping... Also If you have too, find the last spot you found blood and get on you knees, and start looking, keep in mind where you think the deer might be going... One other thing I have tried is a DOG... Does not have to be a trained dog, as long as he has somewhat of a nose... I used a Lab, put him on a leash and got him on the trail, and once he gets that blood going though his nose, he began to follow the trail, just a thought... Hope something here helps... Good luck...
10-25-2002, 12:46 PM
#8
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: PA
Posts: 9,085
RE: HELP. . . .
im with kc...maybe it was last year? hni visitors sig says the question was emailed to huntingnet...but why ask now? maybe a typo....but being the 23rd was 2 days ago i think its too late to help much..all you can do is look the the body and maybe look for turkey vultures in that area and goto where they are....bout all i know to do since the blood wont be very visible...
10-27-2002, 04:59 PM
#9
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
Posts: 26,274
RE: HELP. . . .
Sorry to say it but there are some very happy coyotes. That deer could have traveled miles before it dropped. I have heard of deer living a long time with an arrow in them. You need to forget about that deer and focuse on the next. The only advice I have about bow hunting is when you shoot one give it plenty of time before you go looking for it. Let it lay up some where close to expire.
Lifes a garden, dig it.
Lifes a garden, dig it.
