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Finding hit deer???!!!
fishmasty
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I shot a doe Sunday evening, good bright blood mucusy looking blood clotty puddles and she broke the arrow off (about 6 inches.) I waited until the next morning.Blood trail went 200 feet and quit,.. Looked and looked and looked,.. nothing.. I was shooting easton broad heads 125 gns.
So I figured I needed to go with a wider cutting broad head Barracuda 1 3/4 cut,.. I'm thinking this will get a lot of blood ,..
Tuned my bow up to around 60 lbs. re sighted everything for the mechanical heads and headed off in the woods this evening. At dark here comes a big Doe Alone (I don't like to shoot mother deer with fawns). Waited until I got a nice broadside shot at around 35 yds and let drive, she spun around ran a half a circle and then crashed a couple of times in a creek bottom and then it went quiet. I waited for about 20 minutes figuring alright , it was getting dark so I drifted close to where I last heard her, nothing walked the bottom for a ways and nothing anywhere. I will search 1st thing in the morning but it just amazes me how far those buggers will go with 3 razor blades grinding away at them,... Both deer were shot right behind the shoulder.
How in the * did the indians ever survive?? I would have starved at the rate I am going,..[:(]
I have shot a lot of deer with a Rifle, shotgun (slugs and buck shot and muzzle loader and have never lost a hit deer. I have been hunting for over 30 years and just started getting serious about Bow hunting. I will take my setter out with me in the morning and maybe we can find it.
So I figured I needed to go with a wider cutting broad head Barracuda 1 3/4 cut,.. I'm thinking this will get a lot of blood ,..
Tuned my bow up to around 60 lbs. re sighted everything for the mechanical heads and headed off in the woods this evening. At dark here comes a big Doe Alone (I don't like to shoot mother deer with fawns). Waited until I got a nice broadside shot at around 35 yds and let drive, she spun around ran a half a circle and then crashed a couple of times in a creek bottom and then it went quiet. I waited for about 20 minutes figuring alright , it was getting dark so I drifted close to where I last heard her, nothing walked the bottom for a ways and nothing anywhere. I will search 1st thing in the morning but it just amazes me how far those buggers will go with 3 razor blades grinding away at them,... Both deer were shot right behind the shoulder.
How in the * did the indians ever survive?? I would have starved at the rate I am going,..[:(]
I have shot a lot of deer with a Rifle, shotgun (slugs and buck shot and muzzle loader and have never lost a hit deer. I have been hunting for over 30 years and just started getting serious about Bow hunting. I will take my setter out with me in the morning and maybe we can find it.
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It is amazing to me how tough these son of a guns are,.[:0]
After hunting with a rifle all these years I guess I got spoiled??or took the Creatures for granted a little bit. If I don't find this one I am not shooting anymore deer with a bow. I hate to waste/wound animals like this it is ridicules.[V]
It amazes me how far those buggers can go. I have shot my bow a lot, put a peice of paper in front of the target to see if my rest is off (nice clean hole) Shooting good tight groups, so I don't know. I hate for an animal to suffer and also loose it,..
I have been shooting with a neighbor of mine. Who is a very experienced Bow Hunter and he says I am shooting great and doing everything right by the book.
I think I will give it a break for a while???
Took my Dog with me the next morning ar 1st light. She got on the track and even though I thought the deer went down in the creek bottom she wanted to go up and across the creek,.. She found the broad head, It was broke off about 2 inches above the shaft. The deer then followed the creek up over a little ridge and hit another drainage with a good bit of water in it ,. We lost the trail.[:(]
It amazes me how far those buggers can go. I have shot my bow a lot, put a peice of paper in front of the target to see if my rest is off (nice clean hole) Shooting good tight groups, so I don't know. I hate for an animal to suffer and also loose it,..
I have been shooting with a neighbor of mine. Who is a very experienced Bow Hunter and he says I am shooting great and doing everything right by the book.
I think I will give it a break for a while???
dont give it a break... stay with it. in the heat of the moment its easy to make a less than perfect shot by what you explained sounds like you hit the shoulder bone. 2" is not enough to kill.. best of luck you tried your best and diddent give up thats what counts... it will happen.. be patitent[;)]
I may go out tonite and sit and watch them tonite,..
Thanks for the words of encouragement though, it does not make me feel so crappy,.
Cheers, Fish
I'm going to try using "Rage" 2-blade broadheads for more/better blood trails this year... Alot of people I know have recommended them and have used them with excellent results....Even so, sometimes the shot is not where you want it or the angle,{POOP HAPPENS!} Dont give-up,switch gears and grab a different lane[8D]
Hey Rat
Be careful with the Rage heads. They do make a big hole, but the ones I had were not very sharp, and the blood trails where not what they should have been for that big of a head. This year I went to G5 Strikers. They are the sharpest head I have seen as far as out of the box. They have thick blades that look really strong, and I have shot one into a broadhead target nearing 100 times and it is just as sharp as the others still in the package.
At least they come with a practice tip.. It shoots accuratly. Went and sat in the stand this evening, 2 deer came drifting along, Mama and Fawn. [:)].
I did notice that they were not super sharp, A few of my Buddies
just Rave about how great they are so what the heck. He told me he has not had to trail one more than 100 yds., and a lot of Blood.
So we will see.
Cheers, Fish
I have shot the rage 2 blade for 2 years now and took two with it last year. Both fell within sight. one shot was at 18 yards from the stand and I had about 4 inches buried in the ground on the other side of that doe. I cannot say nearly enough good things about these heads. I was a lifelong muzzy guy before trying these because I was getting a lot of drift out of my new mathews with the muzzies, so went to the rage. I absolutely love them. The replacement blades I got this year are definately sharper than the originals, but it still never hurts to sharpen them up a little more too.
That is what I have been told. I am going to give it another shot ([;)]) so to speak.
What do you sharpen your up with? I was thinking a wet stone?
go with slick tricks and dont look back best head out there today.
Dats what I B shootin dis year! [:D]
quote:Originally posted by buckeyboy
go with slick tricks and dont look back best head out there today.
Dats what I B shootin dis year! [:D]
they are awsome almost always a pass-through which makes for good bloodtrail.. I B sticken with tricken the deer[:D][;)]