Shot a Deer and cant find blood trail?

I'm eating a burger as i type this, i assure you, i love meat, no homo

 

This thread pops up as im packing for a 3 day hunt this weekend

 

Ar.15 and switch out to a different upper receiver and barrel!

 

Put one of these or so everyone knows! Sarcasm is lost in text

 

Hippies, why don't you go hug a tree. How else do we get our protien. Game animals was put on earth to be killed and eaten.

 

Tell that to the bugs you smash on your windshield every day on your ride to work. Or the cat you accidentally ran over a couple years ago. Maybe the bird that you just couldn't avoid and it hit your windshield. Killing animals for food is nature, if no one killed them then the populations would overrun and you wouldn't be able to eat from your veggie garden that you probably love so much because the damn deer ate em all. [/end rant]


edit: durr, guess I should have refreshed and saw page two.... oh well, I'm leaving it.

 

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Was their a blood spot where the deer was standing when you hit him? I would suggest you to carry some Hydrogen Peroxide with you. It makes tracking blood trails a lot easier because it foams up when it touches blood. Go look tomorrow look for blood trails, broken branches, your bow sitting on the ground (I've heard stories of deer running off then breaking the bow off using a tree), anything to indicate that there was a deer there lately.

To Ivan-We have so many deer in my town that they will come out in the middle of the day into downtown traffic. If you asked me Deer season needs to be extended or allow a greater number of tags per hunter. They cause a lot of harm around here but they do have their place in the ecosystem regardless. Right now we are in the process of filing insurance claims because a deer decided to fight my house. Not to mention all the damage to cars. My father works as the Emergency Systems Manager (Dispatch Manager) at a nuclear plant down here in SC and dispatches 3-4 police a night for wrecks caused by deer running out in front of the cars. I've hunted deer for as long as I can remember with Bows, Cross Bows, and Guns. All but 4 deer have been a clean kill. All of them were down within 50 yards of me shooting them except for those 4 they all were recovered and eaten nothing in that deer was wasted. Please do not let a few bad hunters give us all a bad name. Are you a vegetarian?

 

Shot a doe a few years back with my muzzleloader, perfect shot. Waited a while, got down and seen no blood. None. Followed where I thought she ran across the field and still no blood. I got lucky and seen a white belly about 75 yards away tho. She didn't bleed a drop until she fell over. Then I've had deer pouring blood that ran half a mile.. good luck with the recovery

 

Yes I have, and understand about the fever, no matter what people say it has happened to them. You know about shot placement and you know what you did so enough of that.
A blood trail can be tricky, I hit one with only one drop of blood, I thought I had hit him good. Lost the trail. Went out next morning and back tracked. I did find him in a massive pool of blood.
I would try to and check the area again, may look on your hands and knees.
Start marking your route, look at tracks or areas where he ran. You may spend hours doing this, and then the final call with be yours. Also take a pair of scoping glasses to check out area, doing a 20 yard run at a time if possible.
After my last hit and run, doe at 40 yards with a .44 mag, I went to a light to track at night. I know there is alot of blood lights out there, but they are not created equal. I went with a on sale Surefire, (through Midway) and added the blue filter, WOW is all I can say. It picks up drops of blood the size of a pin prick.
All in all, its your call on recovery, if you have made every effort to find, collect it, and that has all failed chances are he went down in thick stuff, or will be out roaming around another day.
Sorry about that, it happens, and I have felt what you do. Just wait till one starts to scream at you. That will melt the heart.
Best.

 

Did you tie any ribbon where you last saw traces of blood? The woods always look different the next day. I shot a nice buck with my bow years ago. I gave it a half hour before I tracked it. I found where it had laid down and it looked like it had bled out, a huge pool of blood. I never found the deer, it was as if it had disappeared like a ghost. Deer are tough, if you don't hit the heart or lungs they can go on for miles.

 

Hopefully the coytes dont get him before you do.

I shot a deer when I was 16. He took off into some THICK brush. I walked to where I thought he was and looked for a bit and couldnt find him. So I walked to where my dad was sitting and had him help me. There was a massive thunderstorm about to hit so we looked for as long as we could without getting the truck stuck in the mud and not be able to get home.

We didnt find him that night so we went back the next morning and all that was left was the neck up. coyotes destroyed everything! All we could do was cut the antlers off and tag them...It was a bummer

 

That sucks I've seen and Heard alot of coyotes this year. Ill have to finish my search when I get off work.

 

good luck man

 

I've helped track deer a lot. Most were found about 100-150 yards passed where the person gave up or lost the blood trail. It's tough. Especially tracking at night. Your mind seems to trick you into thinking you've walked farther than you really have, too.

My FIL shot a deer a few years ago. Deer was in a dead run when shot. It ran another 100 yards and when they dressed it they found the heart blown in half. Adrenaline is pretty powerful.

Push on a little further. Try an develop a radius from the last blood spot and sweep in a circle if you can. I bet you'll find it.

 

any luck?