Is my deer trail messed up from major blood?
12-28-2009, 03:33 PM
#1
Spike
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Location: Florence, AL
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Is my deer trail messed up from major blood?
Well after two weeks of not getting a shot at any bucks I decided to go ahead and take another doe for the freezer. It was a very clean shot right though the heart only 40 yards from my stand. The best way to get the doe out was to go up a man made trail that intersects with the deer trail four times in 100 yards. I drug the doe up the man made trail and left a major trail of blood the whole way. Ever since I did this nothing at all is showing up on my camera that is in the trail. I am wondering if this was a bad idea to drag the deer that route. How long will the blood be obvious to other deer, if it is at all. I havent been hunting since that day but plan to go back in the same area (my property) this coming weekend. I probably should of drug the deer with the exit wound upward instead of downward like I did. It was really rather amusing because the doe's heart actually was falling out of the exit wound when I got to the truck.
Last edited by motorpig262; 12-28-2009 at 03:36 PM.
12-28-2009, 04:23 PM
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Typical Buck
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[quote=motorpig262;3541227]Well after two weeks of not getting a shot at any bucks I decided to go ahead and take another doe for the freezer. It was a very clean shot right though the heart only 40 yards from my stand. The best way to get the doe out was to go up a man made trail that intersects with the deer trail four times in 100 yards. I drug the doe up the man made trail and left a major trail of blood the whole way. Ever since I did this nothing at all is showing up on my camera that is in the trail. I am wondering if this was a bad idea to drag the deer that route. How long will the blood be obvious to other deer, if it is at all. I havent been hunting since that day but plan to go back in the same area (my property) this coming weekend. I probably should of drug the deer with the exit wound upward instead of downward like I did. It was really rather amusing because the doe's heart actually was falling out of the exit wound when I got to the truck.[/quote]
Where did you field dress it, in your backyard?
Where did you field dress it, in your backyard?
12-28-2009, 05:34 PM
#6
Nontypical Buck
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Location: NE Kansas
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Your scent might mess things up for a bit, but that clears. The deer blood won't make a difference. A couple of weeks ago, I had to head back into the woods to retrieve an item I'd left after gutting a doe several days before. The area where I gutted was full of new deer tracks. It didn't seem to to affect the traffic, and it looked like a few might have even investigated and sniffed around.
12-28-2009, 05:40 PM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: central and east texas
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no problem, i killed a buck, he bled all the way up the hill, then i dragged him back down the same trail the other way all the way to the truck, the next mornin there were deer tracks in the blood smears.
12-28-2009, 09:05 PM
#8
Nontypical Buck
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Location: NW Oklahoma
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I have killed deer and they would bleed out in one spot and later I would see where the deer had pawed at that spot and dug the ground up. Like they were curious about the smell. I don't think it bothers them.
12-28-2009, 09:36 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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Your own scent would ruin it before the blood of a deer. I've shot deer from a stand and watch it go off and drop and continue my hunt and then another deer comes in after a while at times, and some of these were some nice size bucks and sometimes it happens so quick, I didn't even get a chance to reload the muzzle loader.
It won't bother a damn thing so get out there or you'll wish you did.
Bobby
It won't bother a damn thing so get out there or you'll wish you did.
Bobby