What happened??
Whitetail Deer
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Since penetration (or lack thereof) seems to eat up so much bandwidth here, I thought it might be interesting to hear the responses to this question from the BS experts.....
Make an educated guess as to; shot angle, broadhead type, penetration, vitals bisected and whatever else you see fit to comment on.
I promise no drawn out explanations, responses or PM's....I will fill in the blanks quickly and hope to limit total posts to 50 or less
: )
Just some friendly, perhaps semi useful discussion over an interesting (for me) hunt.
Steve
The deer is a mature, suburban NJ doe, probably 115 lbs. on the hoof.
Not a yearling.....
2 blade rage full pass thru quartering away 2 lungs Deer was in process of jumping the string when shot
You threw an axe through it...
Simmons; broadside; heart, lungs, liver, maybe more destroyed
My guess: Deer was very close to your stand, you shot over the back with a fixed blade broadhead just slicing along the opposite side you were aiming at. Caught enough lung to kill the deer but it took a while to expire.
How did I do? BC
hard quater away shot, with a mechanical broadhead. arrow glanced off track. lucky it penerated enough for a kill. Forrest
The first thing that jumps out at me is it seems strange that there is very little blood on the hair. With a gash like that I would expect to see lots of blood on the hair, down the sides, etc.
The only kind of wound I have ever seen like that was from some sort of expandable head. But, the one's I've seen all had tons of blood on the hair and sides of the deer.
Big Mechanical broadhead, deer was close to your tree and quartered away. Arrow came out opposite side armpit, heart and lungs were hit.
Hard quarter away, close to stand.. so shooting down, and you tried to avoid scapula.
Mechanical... changed angle on entry, caught part of lung and at least part of heart, if not whole heart?
Deer dropped and turned when arrow was released.
Quartering away shot. That is the exit wound, arrow was stopped by shoulder but when the deer ran broadhead cut the gash???
She got cut. She got cut BAD.
'95 Chevy half ton with an aftermarket grill guard at approximately 47 mph just after daylight. Hope you had insurance !
Sharp quartering shot with an expandable, probably not a rage. Arrow deflected slicing side, follow up killed her.
Who cares...........she's dead.
Looks like she got too close to a guy with a bow, a deer license, and a camera.
Quartering away, moved at the shot or you almost missed, defected off shoulder blade into right lung, heart.
Ok ill guess again. You used a guillotine broadhead and hit low and to the left! :)
A Slick Trick fell out of your pocket :/
That Mountain Lion AKA a Bobcat that was in a post somewhere on bowsite.com was a better shot than you!
LINK and MF probably had the best guesses. She was hard quartering away, perhaps spun away a bit at the shot, not sure. But I am certain that I needed to be about 6" left of where my entry was. She was at about 12 yards. Exit was right in front of chest, right at the cowlick at the top of brisket. Arrow completely severed 2 ribs on entry and cut a 3rd, barely got into rib cage, caught just a bit of right lung and sliced a carotid artery and maybe a couple other important tubes. I watched her run about 90 yards and out of sight. I knew I was way forward for the angle and I either slid through the armpit and didn't kill her, or got lucky and got neck arteries. Thankfully, it was the latter.
I waited 20 minutes and had gobs of blood immediately, but I expected that, even if the hit was bad. 30 yards in, the gore factor increased and it was obvious that I was following the results of an arterial breach. 2' wide and non stop, from a deer running full out. I figured she would be right where I last saw her.
Well, about 110 yards in, I jumped her. She went another 30 yards and plopped down still alive, but not for long. I stayed put and watched as 3 different Bucks went up to her and stared intently from yards away. She made it to her feet 1 more time, staggered 20 yards and went down for the last time. 30 minutes to expire is a bad hit on a whitetail. I am happy I got lucky....but not at all feeling great that it took so long.
That entry wound.....holy carnage, Batman. I too, would have thought that it was from a Gobbler Guillotine, or something stupid like that. But NO! That was from an itty bitty Slick Trick Viper. That's why I think she was spinning away from me at impact. That skin over her ribs had to be stretched tight over her rib cage on impact to open like that.
Bow was a Hoyt Katera, 75 lbs at 29.5", throwing a 27.5" Axis 340 with a m125 grain ST Viper Trick. Total arrow weight about 430 grains flying at 310 FPS for KE of about 90. Arrow was hard in ground. From the stand, all could see was nock and fletchings, so even with all the rib cutting, the arrow stayed on path. I kinda doubt a mechanical would have maintained a straight path on a hit like that....
And that's all I have to say about that.
Thanks for chiming in...
thats a steep angle blade for you. glad you recovered her. Forrest
every deer that I shot and of which the arrow exited the front below the neck , the deer never run more than 50yrds, and the blood trails are 6ft wide. had one doe yrs ago that turned like that and had simular wound. the exit hole in the neck looked like a 12G slug made them.
what happened ?
you didn't make the shot you exactly expected to
Glad she didn't make it far!