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Help Needed,
I really need to get this out. Nov 7th evening hunt. terrible weather, 1st time I have ever pulled up due to weather. 5:10 decided to still hunt back to truck I got 100yds from the stand and something catches my eye, I stopped and settled in between a couple of trees... I grunted, it Grunted, I grunted, from the time I grunted to the time I shot was no more than 20sec, as we all know not the easiest thing to do. Anyway the deer was clearly the biggest I have ever taken aim on in 15 yrs of bow hunting. I pulled up and shot , thudd, the deer then rushed of with the away side leg up at a trot. this shot was brodside at at less than 15 yds. Dead deer right???
Well that is my question??? Snowing, raining, I probally should have let the deer sit longer, but I was scared we wouldn't be able to track at all in the morning with the weather. 6:15 We start tracking. The deer went 80 yards and jumpd the fence. There was my arrow. Alot of Lighter colored blood all the way down the shaft and covering the blazers. Two of the rage blades were bend, but not bad and one was not fully deployed angled to the front of the head looked as if some of the hide stopped it from working properly. For the next 6HRS hrs we tracked the deer. The trail was steady at the most we may have gone 10ft without blood but no further , where the deer slowed to a walk every foot or two we could find some blood, The snow made it tough to find the blood and this just got worse as the night went on. This was the pattern for a little less than 2 miles: 2 flashlights, 2 hay fields, 2 soybean fields , a corn field and halfway across a CRP field (of which had more pheasants than the whole rest of the county). Then it stoped right smack dab in the middle of the crp field it stopped. I shoot a mathews switchback at 70lbs, 3blade rage broadheads, and Axis ST arrows, we should have blown throw the thing at that distance. I sit here sick tonight, The biggest trophy yet... Gone... my question is what's next I will check for blood tomorrow , but I have a feeling the snow tonight wil cover it up, I just want to know your thoughts, is this deer dead, where have you noticed deer head to die. Only small patches of timber through out the areas with a creekline 1/2 mile away from last blood. What would you do?
P.S the rut is on... saw a doe get bred this moring and far more bucks than does running for the first time this year.
I really need to get this out. Nov 7th evening hunt. terrible weather, 1st time I have ever pulled up due to weather. 5:10 decided to still hunt back to truck I got 100yds from the stand and something catches my eye, I stopped and settled in between a couple of trees... I grunted, it Grunted, I grunted, from the time I grunted to the time I shot was no more than 20sec, as we all know not the easiest thing to do. Anyway the deer was clearly the biggest I have ever taken aim on in 15 yrs of bow hunting. I pulled up and shot , thudd, the deer then rushed of with the away side leg up at a trot. this shot was brodside at at less than 15 yds. Dead deer right???
Well that is my question??? Snowing, raining, I probally should have let the deer sit longer, but I was scared we wouldn't be able to track at all in the morning with the weather. 6:15 We start tracking. The deer went 80 yards and jumpd the fence. There was my arrow. Alot of Lighter colored blood all the way down the shaft and covering the blazers. Two of the rage blades were bend, but not bad and one was not fully deployed angled to the front of the head looked as if some of the hide stopped it from working properly. For the next 6HRS hrs we tracked the deer. The trail was steady at the most we may have gone 10ft without blood but no further , where the deer slowed to a walk every foot or two we could find some blood, The snow made it tough to find the blood and this just got worse as the night went on. This was the pattern for a little less than 2 miles: 2 flashlights, 2 hay fields, 2 soybean fields , a corn field and halfway across a CRP field (of which had more pheasants than the whole rest of the county). Then it stoped right smack dab in the middle of the crp field it stopped. I shoot a mathews switchback at 70lbs, 3blade rage broadheads, and Axis ST arrows, we should have blown throw the thing at that distance. I sit here sick tonight, The biggest trophy yet... Gone... my question is what's next I will check for blood tomorrow , but I have a feeling the snow tonight wil cover it up, I just want to know your thoughts, is this deer dead, where have you noticed deer head to die. Only small patches of timber through out the areas with a creekline 1/2 mile away from last blood. What would you do?
P.S the rut is on... saw a doe get bred this moring and far more bucks than does running for the first time this year.
