Gut Shot Deer

[wztirem]

How many of us have gut shot a deer?

•   Bowsite.com - How to Handle a Gut Shot  A Gut hit deer will bed often and this sign will be evident along the blood trail. A deer will likely bed close to where it was shot - so carefully sneak ...
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[NYBowhunter]

I have actually retrieved 3 gut shot deer, one for my dad that I had found about 300 yards from where he shot it, with hardly no blood what so ever. The other was for my cousin, we let that deer bed over night and we tracked her for over a mile and sometimes we were on our hands and knees. The above were shot with rifles. The third was a spike I shot with my bow about 6 years ago, it bedded down about 40 yards from me when I got down from my stand it took off. I gave that deer about 4-5 hours to die, we tracked it for a few hundred yards. It crossed a road and went into a property we knew very well.We went to a certain area based on our instinct after not finding anymore blood and we jumped the deer out of its bed. We tracked that deer for a couple hundred more yards and jumped it another time. We then come face to face with the buck as he went into a stream, but he could not make it up the other side of the bank. I went back to get the quad and by the time I came back the buck had died. Not happy with gut shots but they do happen. If you are persistent, a gut shot deer can be recovered.

[fasteddie]

I gut shot a running deer about 20 years ago with the 12 ga . She laid down about 100 yards away . I waited over an hour and recovered her . When I field dressed her , it stunk !!!!!

[biggamefish]

  Gut shots aen't fun nut they do happen.  I have hit deer hugh in th lungs and had them run hundreds of yards.  We are hunting strong willed animals.  Persistance pays off in the end.  Don't let any leaf go unturned if you do gut shoot a deer and give it lots of time.