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Gut shot deer

Posted on 10/5/15 at 3:47 pm
Posted by Byrd_05
North Mississippi
Member since Nov 2013
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Posted on 10/5/15 at 3:47 pm
Last night at dusky dark, I shot a big main frame eight point that I've gotten pretty familiar with over the past month or so. He came down the trail exactly as I had imagined, I felt good about the shot, which was approximately 20 yards, as the arrow left. My luminok disappeared and I could immediately tell it was high and back. The arrow had hair and fat in the broadhead, a little bit of clear (saliva like) skim on the arrow and fletchings. No blood in the immediate vicinity, so I backed out. I returned this morning with a dog and didn't have any luck finding blood or deer. In your opinion, is the deer fatally wounded? What should be my next course of action?
Posted by Chad504boy
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Member since Feb 2005
166572 posts
Posted on 10/5/15 at 3:50 pm to
no birds no deer
Posted by Solo Cam
Member since Sep 2015
32698 posts
Posted on 10/5/15 at 3:54 pm to
Sounds like you skint his back. I would focus on other deer, he's not coming back and if he does it won't be during shooting hours.
Posted by ChatRabbit77
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2013
5861 posts
Posted on 10/5/15 at 3:55 pm to
Give it a couple of days. Like the others said, no birds, no deer. May take a couple of days for him to start rotting.
Posted by Pas gagne
Member since May 2015
185 posts
Posted on 10/5/15 at 4:20 pm to
Any blood on arrow fletchings at all? No green or brown film on arrow? Smell at all? What color was hair on arrow? How long was the hair? If what you describe is all that was on arrow, may not be fatal. An older buck is tougher than average for sure. All you can really do is look hard in the direction he went. Get in the very last spot that you visibly saw him and scan the ground on your knees for even a speck of something. Sometimes it just happens. It's a very bad feeling. The thing to do is shake it off, and put it behind you. Take the next shot at one with 100% confidence.
Posted by Nascar Fan
Columbia La.
Member since Jul 2011
18574 posts
Posted on 10/5/15 at 6:04 pm to
quote:

In your opinion, is the deer fatally wounded?
Nope
Posted by hunt66
Member since Aug 2011
1484 posts
Posted on 10/5/15 at 7:55 pm to
Probably not dead. Just to be sure go back to area in a couple of days and walk a fan in area he ran. If wooded you may not be able to see birds but should hear them when you get close as you flush them. Found a large hog like that one time. As others have said, you would smell it on arrow if gut shot. Happens - still sucks but it happens. Go get next one
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