Reading The Arrow After The Shot
#1
Reading The Arrow After The Shot
So on the morning of October 31st this year I arrowed my biggest buck to date at 30 yards. He took the shot like a champ though and gave no real reaction to being hit and I wasn't sure where I hit either. Between his reaction or should I say lack there of... My unsureness of where my arrow hit and the fact that I never heard him crash like I usually do when bow hunting I decided to give it 20 minutes for the area to settle down and then I got down from my tree stand to try and find my arrow. After instantly finding it I could see the arrow was completely covered in a white greasy substance. The arrow smelled rather foul as well and there were short white hairs near the arrow and I could only find a spec of blood. I wound up giving it 2 hours before trailing him into the bedding area. It turned out to be a decent blood trail after 15 yards or so and I recovered him only about 75 yards from the stand. I hit him a couple inches behind the shoulder nicking the heart and destroying the lungs. So why was there no blood and only white greasy stuff on the arrow?
#2
How high up where you? The higher up, the steeper the angle of the shot. Though 30 yards is out there a pretty good bit, if you were say 25 feet up, your trajectory would have the exit pretty low on the deer where it would pick up that heavy, white greasy looking fat layer. Though you did say it clipped the heart and USUALLY you don't get the greasy looking stuff from a brisket or close to the shoulder exit, it does SOMETIMES happen.
#3
How high up where you? The higher up, the steeper the angle of the shot. Though 30 yards is out there a pretty good bit, if you were say 25 feet up, your trajectory would have the exit pretty low on the deer where it would pick up that heavy, white greasy looking fat layer. Though you did say it clipped the heart and USUALLY you don't get the greasy looking stuff from a brisket or close to the shoulder exit, it does SOMETIMES happen.