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High one lung maybe?

Where are you at? I have the number for a tracker here in St. Clair County. PM me if you're interested.

Everything you showed looks promising. Do you have a good sense of where you hit the deer?
 
If it was him I saw run off. He looked like he wasent about to die... That's what has me concerned. He walked the feild. Winded me and took off. If he was seriously wounded, I would think he would have kept on going for safety. Assuming the deer I saw was the same one. There could have been another one coming across the feild .. It was that grey light hour and I was 40 yrds off the feild.
 
You didn't say how many yards away the shot was but it sounds a lot like a single lung hit. Sometimes they die and sometimes they don't. You did the right thing by waiting. I hate that feeling you are suffering through right now. Stay positive and I hope you get him!
 
MattMan81 said:
If it was him I saw run off. He looked like he wasent about to die... That's what has me concerned. He walked the feild. Winded me and took off. If he was seriously wounded, I would think he would have kept on going for safety. Assuming the deer I saw was the same one. There could have been another one coming across the feild .. It was that grey light hour and I was 40 yrds off the feild.
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I suspect most here have seen a deer nonchalantly walk around after being hit, go woozy, and topple.

The only behavior that is consistently there for a good shot is eventually hitting the ground.
 
He was 10 yards. I was probably about 18' up the tree. I didn't see or smell any signs of guts. What I saw looked high. But at that angle who knows. Maybe low. Like I said. It was that gray light time. Just before sunrise.
 
From the pictures you showed, I think he's dead.
I think with white fur cut it exited on the underside so the shot was probably below the spine angled down.
The dark red blood indicates a liver shot, I think, so a little towards the body center. Most the dead deer photos I have seen that have been posted on SH lately have been near body center.
 
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d_rek said:
Where are you at? I have the number for a tracker here in St. Clair County. PM me if you're interested.

Everything you showed looks promising. Do you have a good sense of where you hit the deer?
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Hi, you can send me PM if you want, wondering if the person you are referring to is open to people hiring him for service should the need ever arise.
Always good to have that option.
 
It looks like way too much blood on the arrow and fletching to be a brisket shot. Usually with a brisket shot you might get a little bit of blood and some fat and hair stuck to the arrow. It almost looks like a low heart shot.
 
This was just posted today. Notice the blood color and the arrow hole position.
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TK161BOONER said:
It looks like way too much blood on the arrow and fletching to be a brisket shot. Usually with a brisket shot you might get a little bit of blood and some fat and hair stuck to the arrow. It almost looks like a low heart shot.
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yea the arrow is coated pretty juicy for a just a brisket shot. looks like it got vitals. was he bedded down at last blood? Thats a big ol pile for just standing there. you never know man...i would get on the unitedbloodtrackers.org website and call around. i know exactly what your feeling. ugh...makes me wanna puke.
 
MattMan81 said:
I called a guy about tracking. He's at work till 4... Got 100 yrds of bright red blood.. then nothing. If it was him I saw were he went over the road. I found no blood there...
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100 yards of blood seems like a lot. Did you do a fan search from where he went across the road?
 
That's a dead deer. Muscle hits don't coat the arrow like that and have splatter on the ground (at least in every case I've been around). Last year's buck, entrance was stomach/liver and exit was through top of heart. He just raised his tail and bounded off like he was just spooked and was jumping over logs all nonchalant with a hole in his heart. Thought I'd missed!

Hoping for a positive update!
 
Dog tracker never called me back. I walked the wood line were I think he would have ran in. Lots of brown grass and green reeds. Couldn't find a drop of blood any where. I walked the whole edge of the feild, nothing. I slow walked across the back of the property on the other side of the road. At the end I bumped a nice buck. The glimpse I caught looked the same. Not 100% sure. But there was a good chance it was him. I checked where he was bedded. No blood in his bed. I am thinking I skimmed the bottom. I have no replay. But it's all i got. The only way to explain all the white hair. Bright red blood with no bubbles that stops after 100yrds. I would think if I punched a hole through the lungs, it would have blow some more blood out. It was the middle of the day, and usually have no issues spotting blood. I'm a full range of emotions right now. Kinda want to quit. Kinda wanna go back at it. Not happy with my ezV sight atm. Plus to start my day. I got one stick up, went to roll my head cover back to stay cool. Knocked my lamp off. Cut my hands up from the cold weather. Made it to the top and had my bow reel fall off. Had to go get that. Flooded my back pack because the top on my water bottle came loose. So over all. It's been a ruff day.
 
MattMan81 said:
Dog tracker never called me back. I walked the wood line were I think he would have ran in. Lots of brown grass and green reeds. Couldn't find a drop of blood any where. I walked the whole edge of the feild, nothing. I slow walked across the back of the property on the other side of the road. At the end I bumped a nice buck. The glimpse I caught looked the same. Not 100% sure. But there was a good chance it was him. I checked where he was bedded. No blood in his bed. I am thinking I skimmed the bottom. I have no replay. But it's all i got. The only way to explain all the white hair. Bright red blood with no bubbles that stops after 100yrds. I would think if I punched a hole through the lungs, it would have blow some more blood out. It was the middle of the day, and usually have no issues spotting blood. I'm a full range of emotions right now. Kinda want to quit. Kinda wanna go back at it. Not happy with my ezV sight atm. Plus to start my day. I got one stick up, went to roll my head cover back to stay cool. Knocked my lamp off. Cut my hands up from the cold weather. Made it to the top and had my bow reel fall off. Had to go get that. Flooded my back pack because the top on my water bottle came loose. So over all. It's been a ruff day.
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Can’t quit bud. Things happen all the time that are out of our control. You did everything you could! I have talked to two dudes here in IL this year that quit tracking because they were tired, and by the next morning they had donated deer to coyotes. Least you didn’t do that kinda crap (yes, I let them know how I felt) It’s rough, we go until there isn’t anything left to go on, then we choke it down and head back out. The rest of the day was probably a lot of you having the happenings of the morning on your mind, you will be alright soon enough. Get back out there and put him down.
 
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