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Great info Tom.. Our group ended up with a deer with a wound just like that one in the neck/brisket. Luckily there was snow. 5 of us trackes him from 10 that morning . He crossed the tail race of one of the dams in South Colton twice. Finally we had him pushed to an area we knew and we set up and ambushed him close to 5 o'clock as I was pushing him.. Only once all day did any of us see him, and that was just in time to get him turned and crossed back over the river. It's funny. I hate wounding deer, but I do love tracking them. lol I see why you do what you do..

The meat will not be hurt . Remove (clean and eat)the inner tenderloins and then rince the inside out well for piece of mind.

Nice! I had assumed it was a broadside shot. my bad

Not a broadside shot then?

Neck shots where always my go to shot. Close to instant death and not a single step taken. The neck shot accounted for most of my deer before I archery hunted alot. I must have taken dozens of deer with this shot mostly with a 308 ,but also mz loader, 300win mag, and a .280. Most all 50yds or less . I also shot alot back then. In the past few years I don't seem to keep up on my shooting practice so I just keep it simple and aim for the lungs. Oh, and btw wolc. you cannot take buttshots and also claim any standards on ethical shots..;)

I'm betting that is an exit.. if not that shot is often not lethal.

Lol. There is that. I was was usually already wet. I never found a swamp I couldnt break through the ice into. Or for that matter a trap I couldn't get my hand and or fingers stuck in.. Lucky for me I always had a mentor/partner that would poke fun at me. I mean help me out. lol

Ha.ha. cheater.

When I learned to trap 30-40 years ago it was all through the ice. We would find the runs by chopping holes through the ice and find the hard bottoms of the beaver "trails" vs the muck of the rest of the swamp. I'm not sure how many 100s of beavers we trapped using this method. It was rough when the ice got thick . You were usually soaked with ice water by the time you got holes chopped through the ice with an ax..lol

I've only been deer hunting since around 1990. Seems like the muzzleloader season has always been in that spot. Back in the day before inlines were popular and scopes became legal there were very few muzzleloader hunters and even fewer bow hunters in the NZ . So there really wasn't a significant amount of people to protest at the time.. Now it seems that everybody that hunts has a muzzleloader and there are a few more archers. It's still nothing like the southern zone for the # of archers though..

Buddy shot a nice 8 2 days ago with his bow. He was sitting 20, in the air and the deer was 10yds away.It was quartering towards him. The arrow with a 125 gr rage hypodermic entered tight to front LG at about midway height and exited on opposite side guts near the bottom. We assumed worse case was 1 lung,liver and guts of course. We waited 5 hrs and began tracking. To our surprise we went approximately 800yds . We came to a spot where he had bedded down 5 times within a 30, circle. The 4 of us were in the middle of a discussion on whether we should back out when the buck jumped up within 50yds of us and ran over a hill. Amazed that he was still alive and worried about the evenings rain and snow that was coming we pulled out anyways. The next morning we went to the last spot we saw him and with alot of sleuthing we were able to pick up traces of blood . 200 yds later we found him.. It's tough because there are never any rock solid rules to this game. I think if we had waited to the next morning to track from the beginning , there was no way we would have found enough traces of blood after the light rain and 1-2" of melted snow to have found him.. We were able to continue the track by having one person stand at last blood and the others follow every faint trail that we could find until we found blood . Most of the time the 1st obvious trail (based on direction of travel)was the proper guess Turns out the broadhead had cut a hole in the muscle of his leg (big enough for me to put all 4 fingers into) , cut through 1 lung, missed the liver and exited the guts.

Just checked my adds..I guess I'm OK.. lol

Yup

Oh, I will. I'm not sure how many deer walk past while I'm sleeping. But when I wake up I'm still in the woods and hunting..lol

Nothing yet this morning? That sun is warm. Not sure how much longer I can resist a treestand nap..;)

X3. I hope chef returns though. He had more positive contributions than negatives by far. Seemed like a great guy even if he did lean left..;) Unfortunately running a forum is like having kids. There needs to be rules and they need to be followed. Period..

Absolutely... Going back in the morning will greatly increase your odds of a successful recovery. Good luck.

Are you sure? I know they banned leg holds with teeth. Unless it was recent and I missed it they are still legal.

Good choice on the 7-08. You must like her, going back and getting her every time.

Don't do it and tell anybody. One of my idiot neighbor's dogs came up missing. They accused another neighbor with zero proof of shooting their dog. What a pain. The sheriff's, and troopers have both paid him a visit. If there was any proof at all he would have been ticketed.

No , they often average grape size and smaller .

Close to 30 years ago 2 of us did a little mini drive. I was the watcher. As soon as I pulled the trigger I knew I had messed up. I could see intestines hanging out as it disappeared into the brush.. This was before I knew better and we began tracking immediately. (1st lesson always wait at least 6 hrs) . The only bed we encountered was 100yds from where I shot him. If we hadn't of tracked immediately he would have probably been there. My friend,(who ended up my FIL) had taught me everything about hunting and tracking and we had up to that point always found our deer no matter how poorly hit. We started at 9:30 that morning and had to finish him off by flashlight at 6:00 that evening 1 mile from where we started.. He taught me that until they want to lay down or at the very 1st 100 yds they will for the most part follow trails and routes they are familiar with. We would go 100yds on our hands and knees at times before picking up a speck of blood. Sometimes you would crawl 100yds and not see anything. We would back out and start on another trail. Invariably we would find another speck. Another time a friend shot a buck at point blank range also messed up and shot guts and back leg.. This was an evening hunt. We went back the next day and started tracking employing similar techniques. So much for not pushing him this deer went on a measured 1 1/2 mile run leaving space blood and the occasional piece of bone behind.. we ended up on an open water swamp at least 100yds across.. We came close to giving up there. We didn't and found a beaver dam to get the other side. Lucky for us there was a steep hill just across the swamp and the 200# 8 point didn't have the strength to make it up. That is where he died. He had been dead for some time when we found him , so we knew we never did push him. Crazy animals. If all else fails perseverance pays off.. Or a dog. lol. if that's an option I would go that route..;)

Looks like a thorn apple. Not sure if that's the proper name or not. Did it come from a tree that looked quite similar to an apple tree?. I think they are a lot like apples they all seem to get eaten around here, but they will devour them off some trees and ignore the rest until the "good" ones are gone.

Excellent question.. I'm afraid I'm of zero use on that front.lol

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