Sleepless night
10-09-2009, 04:01 AM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 2,445
Sounds like a good hit and a dead deer. He should be found nearby.
I shot a nice buck in a simialr situation in 2005. I was hunting a thicket near some fields, with residential properties to one side. I hit the deer well with a quartering away shot. I waited until dusk to check my arrow but could not find it. Came back the next AM, and every sycamore tree in there dropped their leaves overnight. The ground was covered. I found only very little blood and lost the trail. I had to resort to the grid method, covered the entire thicket from 2 directions adn turned up nothing. I then widended the search, basically into the back edges of the residential properties. One such property had a large "back yard" area that appreared to have been a garden a few years ago, but was then all weeds that were still standing about 2-3 feet high. He went right into the middle and laid down. That's where I found him. Found out I hit only one lung.
The moral to the story is if the search gets tricky, stick with it. Look in the obvious places, but also places that appear to offer less cover. A patch of cover surrounded by open areas is a good place for a deer to hole up, as they can see anything that approaches them.
I shot a nice buck in a simialr situation in 2005. I was hunting a thicket near some fields, with residential properties to one side. I hit the deer well with a quartering away shot. I waited until dusk to check my arrow but could not find it. Came back the next AM, and every sycamore tree in there dropped their leaves overnight. The ground was covered. I found only very little blood and lost the trail. I had to resort to the grid method, covered the entire thicket from 2 directions adn turned up nothing. I then widended the search, basically into the back edges of the residential properties. One such property had a large "back yard" area that appreared to have been a garden a few years ago, but was then all weeds that were still standing about 2-3 feet high. He went right into the middle and laid down. That's where I found him. Found out I hit only one lung.
The moral to the story is if the search gets tricky, stick with it. Look in the obvious places, but also places that appear to offer less cover. A patch of cover surrounded by open areas is a good place for a deer to hole up, as they can see anything that approaches them.
