Any bow hunters? question

You might be in for a lot of walking.  And if you were unlucky enough to somehow miss a vital organ that deer could be alive for a long time.  Hopefully your dog can help you out though.

I would check around to see if there are any deer trails in the area, as you know deer usually follow a trail through the woods. I don't know if your dog is going to be much help since there are a lot smells out there, unless she or he is trained. I would try to figure out a mile circle around the blood and check it out. Depend on where it was hit you may be in luck. You said you didn't see the arrow, I would search a little harder to see if it was a pass through. If not look at trees and what not around to see if the deer tried to rub the arrow out. I usually don't hunt bow, but some of my friends do. If you don't anything get back in the tree stand and hopefully you will see another. Good luck man and tell us what happens.

i hunt in sommerset most of the time (near bakersville) but yesterday i was hunting in unity township because the bucks are just so much bigger around the farms than the nut deer in sommerset. and i shoot grim reaper broad heads on carbons at 65 pounds. the more i think about it i must have hit either the shoulder blade or a rib dead on and might have broken the arrow. well im heading out now to look so ill get back with the results.

im just hoping that i either nailed the fucker and its all intenal bleeding or that by some strange act of god i just grazed it and it isnt hurt.

Chances are if you stuck it and it didnt pass through you probably hit a bone.  But that broadhead is gonna tear the shit outa that deer if he keeps running, so you wont find any real immediate blood, plus that he wont go far.  Did you have a good reading of where the deer ran off to? 

you guys are never going to believe this shit!

i went out this morning and found huge splotches of blood about 40 yards past where i hit him and 10 feet past where i stopped looking last night. the blood trail was easy as shit to follow through the woods. it ran straight for a house about 400 yards away over the hill and through the woods and crashed in some old ladys yard. i found a big circle of hair and a gut pile and got super pissed that somebody would take the deer, so i talked to the lady who owned the house and she told me that she called her son to take the deer at 11Pm last night so i asked her for her sons number and called him. turns out he took the deer gutted it and hung it in their barn. he had his dad come over and get the deer down for me, i thanked them and then picked it up in my dads truck and drove it home.

the best part besides it being gutted was that it was a beast, 11 points (not 8 like i thought) and weighed about 180 dressed. ill get pics up later...

haha, thanks, and ill hit you up with a pm if im around

the only reason i didnt look any harder last night is because i wasnt sure how well i hit the deer (turned out to be that i broke one rib, hit the lungs, and buried into a rib on the other side breaking the arrow) and didnt want to push the deer any farther than neccessary

thanks and +++karma to all

alright i got a pic for you guys.

im 5'11" and 150 for size refrence, damn things neck is as big as my chest!

its awesome that they were so good about letting you have your deer back. they could have been huge dicks about it. nice trophy, going to mount it?

and to the guy above me, hunters like this are the kind you want out in the woods. you could tell by his post that he has respect for the deer, in that he was hopeful he either dropped it or that it was only a glancing scratch, meaning the deer wouldnt suffer.

he also didnt give up and just take another, he put the time into finding out what happened with the one he shot at first.

im not berating you, your opinion on hunting is yours to form

its more like i am praising the thread creator for not being a d-bag hunter and treating it like a video game, hitting the "reset button"

hell yes. hunters with the exception of the rich safari in africa type dont just kill animals without a reason. i hunt deer not only for the enjoyment but for the lean tasty meat as well.

im just pumped and im getting it mounted for sure!

its not too bad but deff worth it,

how much was a duck, because it was 300 for the buck that i had shoulder mounted a few years back

nice work

They let you hunt at night in pennsylvania?

I live in Alberta and we're not allowed to hunt past 30 minutes after sunset.

300 is pretty cheap. I had to pay 700 for a shoulder mount. It was for a sheep though.

good venison recepie, if anyone is interested

take a steak that is an inch or two thick, cut it into smaller pieces (shishkabob size) marinate it in some soy sauce (or teriaki sauce) and spices for a while, then wrap a piece of good bacon around the venison and grill until cooked to your liking.

delicious

oh man i know! venison+bacon=heaven

i do the same thing but use the backstraps and just cut fillets about an inch thick, pepper them, wrap em up with the bacon and cook to med-rare.

sooooo good!