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Lost buck
My grandson shot a big 8 point this afternoon with his new .270, broadside about 50 yards. Blood sprayed all over the place. Weblood trailed him,some good pink lung blood,thru a field and down into a creek bottom, crossed the creeks and up a hill where the blood stopped at the edge of a briar patch. We will be back out there in the morning and try and find him. He is just sick about it.........me too.
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Man that sucks. that is the worst feeling too. Sorry bout that
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Good luck! How's the temp down there? If its cool enough you might not loose much meat! I lost an 8 point this year, I found him the next morning and the only thinglost was the tenderloins! Luckily, it was cool and the 'yotes didn't find him before I did!
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gh you might not loose much meat! I lost an 8 point this year, I found him the next morning and the only thing lost was the tenderloins! Luckily, it was cool and the 'yotes didn't find him before I did! Hopefully he can find his. I think losing them though is sometime we all go through at one point or another. |
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ORIGINAL: timbercruiser My grandson shot a big 8 point this afternoon with his new .270, broadside about 50 yards. Blood sprayed all over the place. Weblood trailed him,some good pink lung blood,thru a field and down into a creek bottom, crossed the creeks and up a hill where the blood stopped at the edge of a briar patch. We will be back out there in the morning and try and find him. He is just sick about it.........me too. |
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Make sure he didn't circle back and go down the creek. Sounds exactly like a story my wife has, she found hers 50yds down the creek.
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How many yards did you track him before you lost the blood, I have a feeling hes right there near by. also make sure he didnt double back on his own trail and cut off. I have had several deer do this. But follow the blood trail in the morning from where he hit the buck and keep an eye out.
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Ok Now, We are chompin at the bit.......get out there and find the buck, take a picture and post it !
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Find someone with a tracking dog. You don't need to loose your grandson's deer.
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ORIGINAL: hometheaterman gh you might not loose much meat! I lost an 8 point this year, I found him the next morning and the only thing lost was the tenderloins! Luckily, it was cool and the 'yotes didn't find him before I did! Hopefully he can find his. I think losing them though is sometime we all go through at one point or another. |
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It aint lost yet, get out there at daylight and find him. If he double lunged him with a 270 he wont go far. Just keep on keeping on.
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Based on personal experience and how you described the shot, I would feel confident in finding this buck.
Take your time and be very methotical. He should be close by. I have finally found deer after a shot that was in thick, nasty stuff. Kinda like looking for a rabbit in places that rabbits would go. Good Luck to you both and give us an update with pics. |
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Couldn't find the buck. It appears that the shot was maybe on the bottom of the lungs, definitely some lung blood and the deer seemed to be bleeding out the mouth some. He went into a large pine plantation area with a lot of underbrush/briars. We found one more spot of blood where he crossed a road, but there are so many deer in the area we couldn't tell if the buck went out of that block or where he went. The blood stopped. We never did find a place that the deer laid down. A lot of running large tracks on the road system. I called around this morning trying to get a blood dog, but the majority of the dog hunters have quit over the last few years and the couple that might have a dog were working. Just one of those things that happen if you hunt long enough.
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Man, I'm sorry to here that. Wish I could help.
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That def. does suck. Im sure he's dead somewhere in the thick stuff. I agree with Jimmy. He's probably laid up somewhere thick that a rabbit wouldn't go. I can't tell you how many fatally wounded deer Ive found a year later while rabbit and pheasant hunting the thick stuff. I low lunged a whitetail this year with my .270. She went about 100 yards on a dead sprint, made it to a creek/ditch and couldn't make it up the bank before falling over. Good luck, Im sure he's dead somewhere. Even if you can't find him to save the meat, I'd keep up the hunt at least for the rack.
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What a shame - sorry to hear it.
As long as you know you did the best you could, it makes it a little easier to accept. |
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ORIGINAL: teedub31 ORIGINAL: hometheaterman gh you might not loose much meat! I lost an 8 point this year, I found him the next morning and the only thing lost was the tenderloins! Luckily, it was cool and the 'yotes didn't find him before I did! Hopefully he can find his. I think losing them though is sometime we all go through at one point or another. |
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Man that sucks!!....IMO...and just that OPINION...that buck went a long way...you know sometimes leg blood can look real good;)....been there done that.
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when u jerk the trigger the barrel moves down and u get a leg shot ..nice blood trail and then nothing ..he is still alive ..been there ,done it and now i squeeze the trigger ...
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ORIGINAL: hometheaterman ORIGINAL: teedub31 ORIGINAL: hometheaterman gh you might not loose much meat! I lost an 8 point this year, I found him the next morning and the only thing lost was the tenderloins! Luckily, it was cool and the 'yotes didn't find him before I did! Hopefully he can find his. I think losing them though is sometime we all go through at one point or another. I think he was talking about slugs!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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ORIGINAL: hunting junkie ORIGINAL: hometheaterman ORIGINAL: teedub31 ORIGINAL: hometheaterman gh you might not loose much meat! I lost an 8 point this year, I found him the next morning and the only thing lost was the tenderloins! Luckily, it was cool and the 'yotes didn't find him before I did! Hopefully he can find his. I think losing them though is sometime we all go through at one point or another. I think he was talking about slugs!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know quite a few more stories of deer that are hit with bows and run off never to be found. IMO bow hunting is the worst way to to just injure a deer. I don't know while I personally don't like buckshot I don't think it's as bad for wounding deer as people make it out to be. I've wounded deer with it and never found them but I've also wounded a deer with a rifle and never found it as well as seen quite a few others get wounded with a rifle never to be found. I think it more has to do with the person shooting it. So all in all I don't think buckshot is a bad load and I've seen quite a few and I mean quite a few deer get killed with it no problem where the deer just dropped right there. However, I haven't had that kind of luck with it. I've had bad luck with a rifle at times too however as well as seen others have bad luck with both. I've probably seen just as many deer killed with buckshot as I have rifles and in some hunting spots shotguns are just better.In others rifles are. I don't think any load is worse than the other really. You have to realize with buckshot you can't shoot a deer 200 yards away and as long as you realize that usually it does pretty good at close range as in 30-50 yards. I just got unlucky with the deer I shot with it. |
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Iv shot 6 deer with a 243 wssm with 100 grain bullets and iv never lost one or had one go more than 50 yards. I dropped a muley buck in his tracks at 350 yards,i double lunged him and broke both his shoulders.
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ORIGINAL: terbzz Iv shot 6 deer with a 243 wssm with 100 grain bullets and iv never lost one or had one go more than 50 yards. I dropped a muley buck in his tracks at 350 yards,i double lunged him and broke both his shoulders. I shot one with my 30-06 the next day and it didn't move 2 feet from where I shot it. Just dropped right there. I've also shot them with my 30-06 and knocked them down only to never find them. |
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ORIGINAL: hometheaterman ORIGINAL: hunting junkie ORIGINAL: hometheaterman ORIGINAL: teedub31 ORIGINAL: hometheaterman gh you might not loose much meat! I lost an 8 point this year, I found him the next morning and the only thing lost was the tenderloins! Luckily, it was cool and the 'yotes didn't find him before I did! Hopefully he can find his. I think losing them though is sometime we all go through at one point or another. I think he was talking about slugs!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know quite a few more stories of deer that are hit with bows and run off never to be found. IMO bow hunting is the worst way to to just injure a deer. I don't know while I personally don't like buckshot I don't think it's as bad for wounding deer as people make it out to be. I've wounded deer with it and never found them but I've also wounded a deer with a rifle and never found it as well as seen quite a few others get wounded with a rifle never to be found. I think it more has to do with the person shooting it. So all in all I don't think buckshot is a bad load and I've seen quite a few and I mean quite a few deer get killed with it no problem where the deer just dropped right there. However, I haven't had that kind of luck with it. I've had bad luck with a rifle at times too however as well as seen others have bad luck with both. I've probably seen just as many deer killed with buckshot as I have rifles and in some hunting spots shotguns are just better.In others rifles are. I don't think any load is worse than the other really. You have to realize with buckshot you can't shoot a deer 200 yards away and as long as you realize that usually it does pretty good at close range as in 30-50 yards. I just got unlucky with the deer I shot with it. |
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He didn't hit lung or you would have found the deer.
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ORIGINAL: hometheaterman I know quite a few more stories of deer that are hit with bows and run off never to be found. IMO bow hunting is the worst way to to just injure a deer. I don't know while I personally don't like buckshot I don't think it's as bad for wounding deer as people make it out to be. I've wounded deer with it and never found them but I've also wounded a deer with a rifle and never found it as well as seen quite a few others get wounded with a rifle never to be found. I think it more has to do with the person shooting it. |
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ORIGINAL: hometheaterman I know quite a few more stories of deer that are hit with bows and run off never to be found. IMO bow hunting is the worst way to to just injure a deer. |
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I only know a handful of guys that bow hunt and all of them shoot several deer each year and are lucky if they find one or two of them. All of them have lots of stories each year about how they hit a deer and found blood but no deer. If they want to bow hunt I have no problem with it but I hear all of them talk about how many deer they have shot and hardly ever do I hear of them saying they were able to find it.
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ORIGINAL: hometheaterman I only know a handful of guys that bow hunt and all of them shoot several deer each year and are lucky if they find one or two of them. All of them have lots of stories each year about how they hit a deer and found blood but no deer. If they want to bow hunt I have no problem with it but I hear all of them talk about how many deer they have shot and hardly ever do I hear of them saying they were able to find it. |
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I bow hunt and rifle hunt. I can say the recovery rate ratio is much lower with the bow. I had my worst year ever this year, 3 out of 4 with a bow, that absolutley sucks. I shot a nice 8 pointer that seemed like a bit low but not that bad. Gave him an hour, we found a pool of blood (pink) foaming and even lung chunks, we must have pushed him because we followed a descent blood trail for 600 yds through several properties, never found him.
I am lucky to say 30 years with a rifle I have never lost one. I use to think that if you lung them their dead and more than likely are but at what point. The lungs have lots of blood vessels some small and some large, it seem you can hit lung but not the major arteries and the deer go for a long time. It seems a little low a little high or a little far back and the deer go a long way. Put it dead center near thecrease of the shoulderandthey dont last long. Right there it will clip the major arteries of the heart and lungs. Just my observation.  |
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about 90 % of my hunting, in the woods, is done with a 45/70...they legalized them a few years back, as a primitive weapon, and i use it all season..it don't play...you hit a deer almost anywhere, and its going down...i killed 5 deer with it this season, and 4 of them went straight down and never moved...the fifth was running away from me...i shot it in the butt, and the bullet exited between the shoulder blade and brisket...that buck went thirty yards, full of adrenaline...he was spraying blood like a garden hose the whole way...
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ORIGINAL: hometheaterman I only know a handful of guys that bow hunt and all of them shoot several deer each year and are lucky if they find one or two of them. All of them have lots of stories each year about how they hit a deer and found blood but no deer. If they want to bow hunt I have no problem with it but I hear all of them talk about how many deer they have shot and hardly ever do I hear of them saying they were able to find it. |
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ORIGINAL: zrexpilot I bow hunt and rifle hunt. I can say the recovery rate ratio is much lower with the bow. I had my worst year ever this year, 3 out of 4 with a bow, that absolutley sucks. I shot a nice 8 pointer that seemed like a bit low but not that bad. Gave him an hour, we found a pool of blood (pink) foaming and even lung chunks, we must have pushed him because we followed a descent blood trail for 600 yds through several properties, never found him. I am lucky to say 30 years with a rifle I have never lost one. I use to think that if you lung them their dead and more than likely are but at what point. The lungs have lots of blood vessels some small and some large, it seem you can hit lung but not the major arteries and the deer go for a long time. It seems a little low a little high or a little far back and the deer go a long way. Put it dead center near thecrease of the shoulderandthey dont last long. Right there it will clip the major arteries of the heart and lungs. Just my observation. |
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ORIGINAL: 2 Lunger I've never had a deer that had in arrow sent through both lungs that went over 100 yrds. I have hit deer with an arrow that seemed to be double lunged and never recovered. I have also made bad shots on deer with my bow and recovered them. |
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When I bow hunt I always make sure I have a clear shot at the shoulder. More towards the back, lower part of the shoulder. That way I take out the heart and maybe some lungs too.
With a rifle or mussel loader I go for the neck area or the head if that's all I have a shot at. (75% time this is all I get) But if I get lucky I'll get a shot at one broad side. I aim mid shoulder if not lower shoulder towards the back to I destroy all the vitals I can. I have found this to work good with my ballistic tip bullets. The deer I shot this year all had mush for a heart and busted ribs. |
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Good luck tracking that deer. I know that sick feeling you get when you lose a blood trail.
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I only know a handful of guys that bow hunt and all of them shoot several deer each year and are lucky if they find one or two of them. All of them have lots of stories each year about how they hit a deer and found blood but no deer. If they want to bow hunt I have no problem with it but I hear all of them talk about how many deer they have shot and hardly ever do I hear of them saying they were able to find it. can say the recovery rate ratio is much lower with the bow. I had my worst year ever this year, 3 out of 4 with a bow, that absolutley sucks. I shot a nice 8 pointer that seemed like a bit low but not that bad. Gave him an hour, we found a pool of blood (pink) foaming and even lung chunks, we must have pushed him because we followed a descent blood trail for 600 yds through several properties, never found him. I am lucky to say 30 years with a rifle I have never lost one. |
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