Ever get a second chance at a deer ?

[tracker]

Just sitting around tonight thinking about the posts this year and last about deer that people have lost deer from shots that just missed vital areas and the blood just simply dries up and they are lost in tracking.How many of you have went back out to later see the deer still around, although not acting normal, and not get a second chance that year for a shot, or possibly setting up a different stand for the shot.Do you ever see the deer on the property again or does it just stay away?

 

[Liv4Rut]

this happened to our two hunting buddies, the one guy shot a doe with his bow two or three days earlier out of this stand, only to lose it and never find it, two or three days later out of the same stand, the other guy shot the same doe early muzzleloader, the wound was still really fresh and barely scabbed over!!

 

[OneCam]

We have a few bucks in my hunting circle that fall into this category.

I made a non fatal shot on a buck I hunted a few years ago, silver, but ended up harvesting him in almost the same stand 3 weeks later.

We also have a few that were wounded and harvested the following year. This year in fact my buddy harvested a huge buck that he wounded the year before. Here's a picture of the initial hit above the spine . . .

 

[docH]

I have a similar story. Last year I made what I thought was a good hit on a buck while bowhunting. I searched high and low for that buck even after running out of blood trail. Six days later I was rifle hunting from a stand about 100 yards from my bow stand. A decent buck was hot after a couple of does. I didn't have much time to look him over before I shot him. As I moved the buck to field dress him, I noticed a triangular shaped scab just above his shoulder. This was the same one I shot at with my bow. The wound was healing nicely and it didn't seem to bother him at all.

 

[tracker]

One cam that is interesting.Looks more like a gun hole rather than a broadhead.Or did you just stick the arrow in to show the size of the wound?

 

[OneCam]

The arrow in the picture resting just above the spine is the same arrow found in the buck when we skinned him out. This of coarse was from last years shot. Most of the actual damage to the vertabrae healed and calcified around the bone. But because the shaft was still in the deer's back - the bone around the shaft did not heal and created a perfect hole.

 

[firedog]

Great example Onecam. That is really cool. I can't believe how tough these animals are. How can they run around with a broadhead stuck in them and not die? Is that an expandable broadhead or fixed blade? Just wondering. Thanks!

 

[OneCam]

that's a steelhead (expandable) - he used a steelhead to finish the job this year as well.

 

[kansasbowhunter]

I had a 130" 8 pointer under my stand a couple of years back that I shot at and unfortunately shot low and just sliced the bottom of his chest. Blood trail was minimal and ended after about 50 yards. I looked for several days and never found the buck. 3 weeks later during rifle season I let my neighbor hunt the same stand and he harvested the buck with a surface wound on the bottom of his chest....

 

[buckknife]

i shot a buck yesterday,arrow only penatrated about 6 to 8 inches,hit a little high,he bleed good and the arrow fell out but he cloted up and quit bleeding,i searched low and high but had to give up after 4 hours,i was bumbed out,he wasnt nothen to brag about any way but i hate to loose one.

Any way got a shot at one today that looked a lot like the ohter buck,it was and i took him at 30 yards,he made it 20 yards.The shot yesterday missed the lung and hit the spin but didnt really stick in it good.He had a blood clot the size of a baseball from yesterdays shot.
Miricals do happen

 

[lxshooter]

The buck I shot this year gave me a second chance. I shot the first time and hit limb that shouldn't have been there and it hit the very top of his back, only saw hair fly. As soon as he stopped we used the can and he came back in for a 8 yrd shot. First deer with a bow and man was it exciting