Deer hunting BS thread

Nice buck. When did you shoot him?

 

Nice man. Yeah I checked the cameras after the hunt and found a real nice 8 I would love to harvest haha. He's only been comin in the Mornin so ill have to try Saturday Mornin

 

got him on the 15th of sept. had his buddy in there with him too but couldnt get a shot on him. wasnt about to let both of them leave without trying to use a tag, he gave me a broadside shot at 20 yards and the arrow went right threw his heart. never knew what hit him. he ran maybe 20 more yards and fell over dead.

 

Nice man. I think after this weekend ill start sittin with the bow

 

Muzzle loader bull.



Uncle's and my bull in the back of the Tacoma.

 

Shot a 4x4 on saturday and found a little 5 point elk shed on the packout

 

nice. i wanna get an elk but i aint goin cross country after one. atleast not yet anyways...

 

Good pics starting to come in. Cool to see what everybody gets and from where.

 

No pics from me. Hit a big 8 Saturday night and looked for 2 hours Saturday night and 2 hours tonight. No luck. Got lost for a couple hours Saturday too. Lost in the mountains at night is no fun.

 

What a drag. I tracked a blood trail for couple hours once,then trail gone. Didn't find it.

 

you need find somebody that coon hunts with some dogs, most of em i know have atleast one dog that runs deer. take em in and try to trail it. sucks losin any animal you shoot. i lost a doe last year hit her perfect behind the shoulder with a 270, knocked chunks of bone out along with a major blood trail, then the blood stopped and i lost her in a riverbottom thicket. couldnt have gotten her out if i had found her but still. maybe you'll find him before the coyotes do

 

He was bleeding pretty bad. 4 or 5 puddles bigger than a softball. First spot I found was probably 8 inches across. I'm thinking I only hit 1 lung. Straight on 20 yards. Jakhammers make a big hole but apparently not big enough

 

if you pinned a lung im betting he's closer to where you are than you think. keep looking! what color was the blood? crimson red? DARK DARK red? bright red? bubbles in it?

 

Bright red. No bubbles. And lots of it

 

sounds like a good shot, liver shots and gut shots are DARK blood, lungs almost always have white foam, or bubbles in the blood. muscle shots and arteries are the bright blood you see. you probably nicked an arterie in his vitals. ether way im willing to bet that deer is dead less than 200 yards from where you shot him.. now which was he went is a different story. check waterholes and hillslopes. every deer I've ever tracked has died on a hillslope where they can bed in the wind and watch below or died going to water. they say they try to get in water to stop the bleeding.. good luck man ill keep a lookout for a pic

 

guess i'll post this here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La19_YR-8mE

 

if nothing else go back this weekend and look for buzzards.

 

Yeah man it always sucks losin one. I lost a nice buck last year. As soon as I shot he ran straight to the swamp. I heard him crash in the water but never found him

 

Rifle season's gettin real close here in Texas!!! Ready to start makin some money