How far did this Doe go ??
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From: jdbbowhunter
03-Feb-19
78 yds
From: kota-man
03-Feb-19
I’m gonna say 800 yards, one lung...If you caught the heart, less than 100 for sure.
From: PECO
03-Feb-19
I'm going to say double lung and heart, and she went less than 50 yards.
From: jjs
03-Feb-19
not far
From: shiloh
03-Feb-19
67 yards
From: Hawkeye
03-Feb-19
The true "void"...;)
500 yards
From: pa10point
03-Feb-19
offside lung. 150 yards
From: Glunker
03-Feb-19
400 yards or might have been a 2 day event.
From: Topgun 30-06
03-Feb-19
A long way based on distance, height of stand, and low exit!
From: Scar Finga
03-Feb-19
I'll go the other direction. You wiped out the vitals and she went 10 yards.
From: ki-ke
03-Feb-19
One lung, missed the heart. Don't know how far she went.....a better question would be how long did she live? I'd bet she lived a few hours, at least....
From: joehunter
03-Feb-19
300 yards- little low on entrance from that high. Missed heart and only got entrance side lung.
From: nvgoat
03-Feb-19
Double lung plus heart. Distance-50yds
From: Ucsdryder
03-Feb-19
Perfect shot from the ground. Low from a tree stand. I think a decent distance.
From: spike78
03-Feb-19
110 yards
From: Dale06
03-Feb-19
Amazing, I’d have guessed less than 75 yards.
From: midwest
03-Feb-19
The shot looks very low for 21 ft up but may be just the camera angle on a dead deer laying on the ground. Guessing single lung and went a long ways. Possibly still alive after a few hours.
This is one of those hits where a big mech shines.
From: Shug
03-Feb-19
I’m gonna throw this out there as well ... it appears that for your stand height and the shot distance the exit seems it should have been higher. I’m thinking there was a little deflection on bone when the arrow hit. A possibility?
From: Boone
03-Feb-19
21 feet up??? Doesn't look like much of a height difference from entrance to exit? The angle just doesn't look like your 21 feet up. I'd say 100 yards
From: Shug
03-Feb-19
I’ll also guess you hit on side lung lower third and exit side missed the off side lung and sliced the very bottom of the heart and the deer went 600 + yards
From: stillhunter
03-Feb-19
one lung, 200 yards, bedded several times
From: Geno
03-Feb-19
One lung and heart. 55 yards
From: Ambush
03-Feb-19
Double lung and possibly some heart. Took off with the flock, stopped with the flock and fell over. Depending on cover, thirty to eighty yards.
From: Schmitty78
03-Feb-19
One lung, 250 yards
From: Aspen Ghost
03-Feb-19
Hit lower part of onside lung, nicked heart and just missed offside lung. Went 350 yds total. You recovered it 5 hrs 17 minutes after the shot. It was a red fox that was chewing its butt.
From: Paul@thefort
03-Feb-19
56 yards, tons of blood to follow! Actually you saw the deer go down.
From: Moons22
03-Feb-19
That is a perfect shot if you say anything more than 100 yards you’re lying
From: T Mac
03-Feb-19
Clipped lower part of heart 78 yards
From: Shug
03-Feb-19
I’m amazed so many knowledgeable guys have so many DIFFERENT opinions... Ok c’mon with the answer
From: Tonybear61
03-Feb-19
The last couple of deer I shot at that height those kind of entry exit wounds went 10-50 yds tops.
From: oldgoat
03-Feb-19
1 lung, heart and 150yds and this is a wag
From: WV Mountaineer
03-Feb-19
Onside lower 1/3 lung and the heart. I've seen them go 250-300 hit just like that and, I've seen them go 25.
From: woodguy65
03-Feb-19
50 yds.
From: itshot
03-Feb-19
114 ft.
From: Stekewood
03-Feb-19
It all depends on how soon you started tracking her and if you bumped her if you started too soon.
From: timex
03-Feb-19
ok I'll guess but that's all it is. cause two different deer hit the exact same place will react completely different. my guess is 125 yards
From: WV Mountaineer
03-Feb-19
I didn't read the comments until after posting. But, there is no way I can see that shot missing the heart by much. If at all. Looks to me like it exited perfect mid heart level. So it just about had to hit the top of the heart at least. Plus, there is no way that missed the onside lung and hit the offside lung. It may have hit both lungs. It may have hit the onside lung only. But, it didn't miss the onside lung and hit the off side one. That is an absolute given.
From: grizzly
03-Feb-19
nearside lung, heart, 75yds
From: Tlhbow
03-Feb-19
One lung, 400 yards .
From: Backpack Hunter
03-Feb-19
At least 420 yards.
From: WV Mountaineer
03-Feb-19
After looking again, that shot dead centered the heart. No doubt about it. On side lung low and pin wheeled the heart
From: btnbuck
03-Feb-19
200 yards, just a WAG but.. I hit one like that a few years ago and it didn't go far but took a while to expire. You hit Just behind the heart where the two "little" lobes of the lungs hang down just behind the heart. (my shot grazed the heart but didn't pierce through it) The large lobes of the lungs were basically untouched therefor not a short/quick recovery. I sat there in awe watching in the binoculars and couldn't believe this deer was still alive after a "perfect" shot like that.
From: Shug
03-Feb-19
Lock the thread Pat!!
From: Stekewood
03-Feb-19
Hahah. Pat!
From: Stekewood
03-Feb-19
From: orionsbrother
03-Feb-19
There you go JTV. At least one cliffhanger too many. Pat just classified this thread as “Scroll Bait”.
From: Shug
03-Feb-19
It is getting old though
From: Habitat for Wildlife
03-Feb-19
Jeff,
You posted the results of this on the CF. It went 400 plus yards, maybe half mile if I remember correctly.
From: Habitat for Wildlife
03-Feb-19
It was on the thread 'Things in Common'.
From: sitO
03-Feb-19
114yds
From: Shug
03-Feb-19
Ty Habitat...
From: Matt
04-Feb-19
"many here dont dare go to the CF... "
Or gay clown orgies, first I heard that was a character flaw.
From: EmbryOklahoma
04-Feb-19
Ha ha... oh, Matt, you kill me.
From: Milhouse
04-Feb-19
Good post. Because you stuck with it, and got her. I see so many that make "perfect shots", then fail to recover the animal, and blame it on anything they can dream up. The broad head, mostly, though. Your shot was almost perfect, yet the deer went almost a half mile, and that could have happened with any arrow/bh combination.
One thing I've learned about hunting deer, there are no nevers, and there are no always. Things often happen fast, our mind and eyes play tricks on us. The best/worst shot I ever made was on a 150+ buck drinking at a waterhole... He was at 40 yards, completely calm...when I shot, he ran about 10 steps, and stopped to look around. I put my binos up to see what happened....just as his rear end began to wobble, and he stumbled back almost to where he standing at the shot, and died.
The broad head cut the artery that runs along the back, just under the spine. A little lower, and it would have caught both lungs. Again, equipment had very little to do with the outcome. It's usually the guy behind the bow.
From: stillhunter
04-Feb-19
Good post
From: ELKMAN
04-Feb-19
Just curious what head were you using?
From: 12yards
04-Feb-19
Judging by Pat's buck I was going to say 35 yards.
From: Linecutter
04-Feb-19
Just goes to show the tenacity of some animals refusing to die. really doesn't matter what broadhead he used, sliced the bottom of the heart and only got the back lobe of the lung. To miss the right lung all together, I think you said you were 21 feet up, the quartering shot must have been fairly acute also (more so than you thought), because of the entrance wound side was just above the elbow pocket and where the exit hole was. I would not have thought she went that far, if I would have made same the shot also. Thanks for passing along this info. Don't laugh, you may have caught her on the exhale with her breathing when the arrow impacted. Her lung size would have been smaller allowing for the possibility of missed right lung. Where if the impact was on the inhale, the space the broadhead went through "may have" been filled since the broadhead cut thebottom of the hear. Just another possibility as to why you didn't get both lungs. DANNY
From: Hawkeye
04-Feb-19
Doggone it!
I'm always a day late and 100 yards short....;)
Cool thread JTV.
From: Hawkeye
04-Feb-19
I'm a huge fan of the Steelhead and all I've used last two years.
From: 12yards
04-Feb-19
Love Steelheads too. Have a big supply of the old 125s.
From: APauls
04-Feb-19
Don't be so sure on the double lunger. I double lunged my buck this year with a razor sharp head and for whatever reason he lived at least 15 minutes. When I went to see the hit and did about 40 yards of tracking he was close by in a bed and got up. I backed out and came back 6 hrs later he was stiff. Don't know if it was something in the air this year, but there was a lot of weird blood trails this year on great hits.
Prior to that any other double lunger I have shot is good for about a 6 -one-thousand-crash.
From: Teeton
04-Feb-19
Looks like I'll be stocking up on the steelhead 100 if they've been discontinued. They've been my go to head for just about everything for the last 20 + years. I've been buying a pack every now and then just to have and at $19.95 a pack how could you go wrong. I do see on their web site that they have the sidewinder heads for only 14.99 a pack of 3. I've killed quite a few whitetails with them.. But I love my steelheads.. Ed "Edit" Sorry guys it should of said $19.95 a pack not $10.95.. So I changed that price to the right one.. Sorry.
From: Jack Harris
04-Feb-19
good post- I religiously study ever bow killed deer I am part of, regardless of who shot it. There is ALWAYS something to be learned. I study blood trails religiously even when I see deer drop in sight which fortunately is often, but not every stand is optimal for that, I have many spots where you can't see them drop if they go more than 25 yards so then what? I don't care if you shot 1 deer with bow or 1,000 - you should study and focus on every shot and recovery and remember every detail.
From: Hunter's Granddad
05-Feb-19
Great post and great recovery. I shoot the Wasp Boss Bullet for years and they would shot through anything but didn't make a big hole. I double lunged the last buck and he went 225 yards. There was very little blood for the first 200 yards. I changed over to a larger cutting mechanical broadhead and really like larger holes.
From: greenmountain
05-Feb-19
I have seen both extremes. I shot a doe in 2012 that went around 500 yards according to my GPS. When dark hit I asked gentleman with tracking dogs to help me out. We found her quite quickly and he speculated that the deer must not be hit as well as I thought. She apparently never stopped until she piled up minutes after the shot. I hit both lungs and creased the top of the heart muscle. On the other extreme I killed a button buck with my car going about 10mph. He went to the road edge and expired.
From: tobywon
05-Feb-19
I hunt woods with not much agriculture around. Deer tend to run after the shot and stop further out. When I watch some hunting shows when deer are in fields/food plots and the hit looks perfect, it seems those deer run like hell and cover a lot of ground. Maybe its a security thing. As others have said, each hit is different.
