Strange...

[ehallagan]

Last night i was hunting out of a double stand- I sat with my good friends 9 year old witnessed his first kill, while his dad was on the other side of the hill.One doe was a double lung and went 90 yards. However the strangest thing happened- The doe came in on a ridge and i stuck her at about 20 yards. Good Placement clean pass through- Double lung. I watched her head down the ridge about 50 yards until she disappeared. So i climbed down. ( When you are hunting with a 9 year old they just dont understand the concept of waiting) so i talked him into waiting 45 min - I knew it as a good shot. But strangely enough there was no blood to be found. just watery arrow and very light amount of blood. And i mean no blood. I Searched for 10 min around where i hit her still no blood. By this my buddy has climbed down and we start searching together. He tries telling me it wasnt a good shot. any way about 25 yards down the trail she ran we found 2 nickel sized spots. So i then thought lets track this back to the point of impact. Nope no blood. I kept walking to where i saw her last and about 95 yards from where i shot her there she lay dead, with very very little blood around her. What caused her
not to bleed? all my blades on my Sptfire opened up, Anybody else ever have a situation like this?? Needless to say the little boy who is like a little brother to me was ecstatic. He even got the 101 on gutting one!

 

[Ghost]

Often times if the hit is higher in the chest, the chest cavity will fill up but leave no trace of blood on the ground.

 

[bowtech021]

I've had one deer do that. Higher shot in the lungs takes time to fill up. first deer i ever shot with a shotgun in youth season did that. Was sure i hit it but no blood so we went back to the house. I sat there and was so sure so we went back and just started walkin and about 50-60 yards sure enough pools.

 

[Liv4Rut]

Besides being hit high, I think this time of year deer have a ton of body fat on them, and that makes the blood trail weak.

 

[Seth]

Happened to me last year. Found her 120 yards away piled up in a ravine, not one drop of blood from where I shot her to where she died. Perfect lung shot and all. Except I never found my arrow.

 

[captain]

I had the same thing happpen a few years ago and came to the conclusion of the combined factors of a high chest hit and small entry hole with the spitfires equalled not much blood.

Glad you guys found her.

 

[Dewy]

Ran a muzzy through one 3 years ago. Arrow caked with blood. I heard her crash, luckily, and was shocked to find no blood around her at all. No blood the entire way back to the arrow.
Arrow cut the aorta (large artery leaving the heart to the body). I assumed that since that completely cut off the blood flow to the rest of the body that there was no blood to leave the exit site.
There was very little blood in the chest cavity as well.
Someone else may have evidence or information to dispute this but it makes sense to me.

 

[jkratz5]

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Ran a muzzy through one 3 years ago. Arrow caked with blood. I heard her crash, luckily, and was shocked to find no blood around her at all. No blood the entire way back to the arrow.
Arrow cut the aorta (large artery leaving the heart to the body). I assumed that since that completely cut off the blood flow to the rest of the body that there was no blood to leave the exit site.
There was very little blood in the chest cavity as well.
Someone else may have evidence or information to dispute this but it makes sense to me.

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Dewy, I think you are right about no blood trail because of cutting the aorta, all the blood is back in the heart and would have just got pumped into the chest in the next few beats, kinda weird that she didn't have a whole body full of blood though, you would think that her entire blood volume would have poured into her chest once that main pipe was cut.

Anyhow, back to the original post, I had the same thing happen 3 years ago on a buck I shot with the muzzy, At the shot site I found a large hunk of lung and some blood to go along with it and not another drop, I had hit high in the lungs and the deer only went 60 yds, so I don't think he had enough time to fill up the chest and start spilling it out. Also, one side of the buck had a huge hunk of fat hanging out the exit hole, I assume this probably acted as a stopper of some sort.

Kratz

 

[Dave Deutsch]

I had the same thing last year with a buck I shot with my muzzy. Took about a 70 yrd shot, I thought when the smoke cleared that buck would be laying right were I pulled on him. I gave it about 20 and climbed down out of the stand. Walked to right where shot him and nothing. I wandered around looking for blood for about 10 min. I must off had a pretty odd look on my face while a scratched my head. I finally started walking to where I think he might have gone and sure enought less than 50 yrds away there he lay deader than a door knob. Looked like he just sat down and expired. When we gutted him he was pleny full and I think I must have hit him high enough to where it just couldn't get out.

CCK