JEEZE!!!!!!Bitter Sweet!!
10-28-2009, 04:39 PM
#1
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 1,211
JEEZE!!!!!!Bitter Sweet!!
Sunday I shot my first deer with my bow 20 yards....one problem though 2 words gut shot my arrow made a complete pass through no blood just green grass never found her bitter sweet moment!Hopefully next time I'll find the one i shoot and it'llhave a good shot on it!
Also found a dead 8 point good rattlen horn's all i found was the skull nothen else though made the time somewhat better.
Also found a dead 8 point good rattlen horn's all i found was the skull nothen else though made the time somewhat better.
10-28-2009, 06:33 PM
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Kansas
Posts: 282
How long did you look? Their should be blood somewhere on the trail she ran off on. I would have kept looking. If you had let her sit overnight you probably would have found her the next morning.
Can you use punctuation when you type, It gets confusing reading your post. lol
Can you use punctuation when you type, It gets confusing reading your post. lol
10-29-2009, 12:17 AM
#7
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Eagleville Missouri
Posts: 338
I've heard of folks leaving deer over night and still eating them but not where I live. The weather is usually too warm, and if a deer isn't found and dressed within an hour they are left. I wouldn't reccommend eating the meat even in cold weather, if the deer can't be found and field dressed right away, but cold weather could stretch the time several hours maybe. I can't understand how guys hunting in warm climates can wait very long before tracking, but I see it on tv all the time. Ted Nugent or someone is hunting in Texas, in a bug suit, and after shooting the deer at noon he waits to let it die. Then six hours later in full darkness they track and find the deer, and hold it up for photos in a cloud of flies. Let an already warm ( body temperature) steak lay outdoors a few hours and you would'nt eat it. There are a lot of bad things inside a body, that will spoil it very fast. Especially when you don't drain the fluids and remove the guts. After that, with cold weather they cool fast.
I guess it all depends on the temp your hunting in.
I guess it all depends on the temp your hunting in.
10-29-2009, 02:35 AM
#8
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Nekoosa Wi USA
Posts: 6,066
To me it sounds like you only looked for blood at the impact area of the shot and didnt really try finding it other than walking in the same direction the deer went. There is blood somewhere and thats a dead deer. Go back and look.....