Chasing Tail
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Wednesday night I shot I nice 10 pt. After the shot he dropped instantly and then started spinning and rolling. After about 40 seconds of that he gets up goes to take off and falls on his face. Gets up again and takes off running with his head about a foot off of the ground. He runs about 20 yards like that before I can no longer see him due to a line of pines in the way. 4 hours later I go after what I thought would be a dead deer. I go back to first impact and found the ground tore up and decent blood. You could also see where his belly was dragging when I lost sight of him. He got to a corner where he could have went right through a gate or jump a fence to the left, he choose to jump the fence (not a good sign). There was bright red blood on both sides of the ground where he was standing, probably 30-40 droplets on each side (he must have stood there a little while before jumping). We thought we would find him within a 100 yards. Bottom line is we lost blood in a plowed cornfield at about 200 yards. We searched for 3 hours that night and 5 hours the next day.
I feel like I must have hit him high and nicked the spine. I was confident on my shot. Broadside at 70 yards took my time. I'm not sure what happened.
I am just curious if anybody else has experienced this before (a deer rolling and spinning around like that and getting up and taking off and living). Plus I just wanted to get it off my chest. I know it is part of hunting and It's not my first lost deer but I HATE it when it does happen. Its been a long season and I've put in a lot of time and hard work. I passed on alot of bucks. 2 days before the season ends it is a hard pill to swallow.
I feel like I must have hit him high and nicked the spine. I was confident on my shot. Broadside at 70 yards took my time. I'm not sure what happened.
I am just curious if anybody else has experienced this before (a deer rolling and spinning around like that and getting up and taking off and living). Plus I just wanted to get it off my chest. I know it is part of hunting and It's not my first lost deer but I HATE it when it does happen. Its been a long season and I've put in a lot of time and hard work. I passed on alot of bucks. 2 days before the season ends it is a hard pill to swallow.