shot in the back leg and the deer still dies?
12-07-2006, 08:16 PM
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RE: shot in the back leg and the deer still dies?
ORIGINAL: BowHuntingFool
I hit one in the hind quarter once on a deflection and the deer went 15 yards and dropped. At first I was bummed, I thought "oh know" but with in seconds the deer was down! I was shocked, the blood trail was 3 feet wide!
I hit one in the hind quarter once on a deflection and the deer went 15 yards and dropped. At first I was bummed, I thought "oh know" but with in seconds the deer was down! I was shocked, the blood trail was 3 feet wide!
12-07-2006, 08:30 PM
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RE: shot in the back leg and the deer still dies?
ORIGINAL: MOTOWNHONKEY
Oh boy, I can see all the "I hit one in the ass on pourpose guys help me find it" threads from this awfull advice.
Oh boy, I can see all the "I hit one in the ass on pourpose guys help me find it" threads from this awfull advice.
12-07-2006, 09:32 PM
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RE: shot in the back leg and the deer still dies?
it will kill of course but you would be shooting for something as big around as your thumb. yea dont try it. my brother shor a huge 10 point there accidentaly(twig) and it ran lickety split for 250 yards and fell over stone dead. luck of course.
12-07-2006, 09:35 PM
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RE: shot in the back leg and the deer still dies?
Chuck writes in his most recent column in yesterday's issue of Bowhunting World that he recalled Fred Bear promoting the rear ham shot to him because of the abundance of blood vessels back there, but Chuck himself said he wouldn't advise it. Maybe he's rethought his position since the release of his book.
12-07-2006, 09:36 PM
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RE: shot in the back leg and the deer still dies?
ORIGINAL: Greg / MO
Chuck writes in his most recent column in yesterday's issue of Bowhunting World that he recalled Fred Bear promoting the rear ham shot to him because of the abundance of blood vessels back there, but Chuck himself said he wouldn't advise it. Maybe he's rethought his position since the release of his book.
Chuck writes in his most recent column in yesterday's issue of Bowhunting World that he recalled Fred Bear promoting the rear ham shot to him because of the abundance of blood vessels back there, but Chuck himself said he wouldn't advise it. Maybe he's rethought his position since the release of his book.
Back in FredBear's day, perhaps, but definitely not in the 2000's.
12-07-2006, 09:39 PM
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RE: shot in the back leg and the deer still dies?
I was leaving a sport shop in Grayling, Mi. many years ago, when Chuck Boname (probably spelled wrong) Fred Bears, Secretarys Son, Pulled up with a nice, wide 8pt in the back of a truck and says Hay John, if you can find were I shot this deer you can have it! After looking it over real good Chuck began to laugh grabed its rear leg and opend up a lenght wise cut running down the bottom part of the leg with the Bear Broadhead buired in its hoof!! Said He had shot it right under his stand, and did not know were he had hit it, but hadfair, to noBlood,and after a long tracking job found it. Don't shoot deer in the hoofs!
12-08-2006, 02:52 AM
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RE: shot in the back leg and the deer still dies?
I accidently shot a nice buck in the hams about a week after my borother-in-law did the same thing - also by accident. In both cases, we had excellent blood trails leading to dead deer about 50 yards away. I don't recommend or endorse the shot and would never intentionallytake it, but it often results in a easy recovery.
12-08-2006, 05:47 AM
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RE: shot in the back leg and the deer still dies?
I also have stuck one in the ham (quartering to, hit way to far back...before I knew better), broadhead actually came out between his legs, fletchings sticking out just in front of the ham 6 inches or so. The buck just stood there. I was soooo bummed, I nocked another arrow and didn't get another shot opportunity and he slowly walked 20 yards and fell over. He left a blood trail 2' wide.