Monday's shot placement...no recovery
#11
Spike
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 1
10 point buck walked broad side across a field 200+ yards from my blind. He stopped looked up at me. I shot. Aimed heart. He fell, got up walked 50 yards and layed down .. Then he got staggered across the field continuing this for 10 mins falling and getting up disappereared in a thicket. I waited 2 hours then started tracking.. I spent 5 hours grid searching and no blood or sign.. id rather miss then wound . 243 Winchester...
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 2,358
without pictures, hard to say, but I will toss out another option. You are infront of the shoulder, and not in the chest, not a dead deer. IF the blood doesn't look like lung, no bubbles, not pink etc, then this might be it. The bleeding at first is huge, then peters out because it clots and stops bleeding.
#15
I can't tell if the blood is dark because he waited 5.5 hours before tracking or if it can indicate anything about what the bullet hit. Had a lung been hit, would there still have been bubbles at that point (assuming he had really taken a closeup shot of the blood to where we could tell)?
#17
Spike
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 45