I arrowed a deer!! but it got to dark to track! What do you think!!
12-05-2008, 10:46 PM
#11
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Port Neches, Texas
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RE: I arrowed a deer!! but it got to dark to track! What do you think!!
ORIGINAL: Double Drops 24
To me, it sounds like a liver shot. If you didn't bump him this evening you should find him pretty close to where you left off tonight.
To me, it sounds like a liver shot. If you didn't bump him this evening you should find him pretty close to where you left off tonight.
12-05-2008, 10:47 PM
#12
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
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RE: I arrowed a deer!! but it got to dark to track! What do you think!!
ORIGINAL: Rory/MO
If you knew the shot was back, why'd you only wait 20 minutes? I wait 30 minutes to get out of the stand and check blood, and that's with a GUN.
Cut a little slack!
12-05-2008, 11:00 PM
#15
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Jefferson County, Missouri
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RE: I arrowed a deer!! but it got to dark to track! What do you think!!
ORIGINAL: JagMagMan
It's really easy to be an arm chair hunter!
Cut a little slack!
ORIGINAL: Rory/MO
If you knew the shot was back, why'd you only wait 20 minutes? I wait 30 minutes to get out of the stand and check blood, and that's with a GUN.
Cut a little slack!
12-05-2008, 11:17 PM
#17
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: RI
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RE: I arrowed a deer!! but it got to dark to track! What do you think!!
Dark blood and far back, I would have waited til morning or at least give it 5 or 6 hours then go back with a lantern. Anyway, good luck finding it tomorrow.
12-05-2008, 11:50 PM
#18
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Port Neches, Texas
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RE: I arrowed a deer!! but it got to dark to track! What do you think!!
Not an armchair hunter at all, just trying to give advice for next time.
But, even the best of us get "caught up in he moment" sometimes, making apoor shot, or excitedly pushing a deer that we should have waited on.
12-06-2008, 09:30 AM
#19
Typical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Person Co. NC
Posts: 884
RE: I arrowed a deer!! but it got to dark to track! What do you think!!
Should have waited longer with a dark red arrow,atleast a few hours. In my (limited) experience, a liver shot deer will laynearly asquickly as a lung shot deer. The trick is not to scare them up untill they have time to die.
12-06-2008, 09:41 AM
#20
Boone & Crockett
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RE: I arrowed a deer!! but it got to dark to track! What do you think!!
I know i should of waited longer but i didnt want to lose the light i had left.
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