Hunter260
Well-Known Member
Here’s my setup, 70lb 30 inch draw Mathews no cam
605 grain Easton axis arrow with G5 montec
Had a small buck come in at 23 yards. Perfectly broadside and calm, grazing along a field edge with short grass.
I waited until he was a couple steps past me so that I could get a slight quartering away shot.
Here’s my aim point. I didn’t see the arrow impact, but felt 100% like everything in the shot was perfect. He didn’t duck extremely hard or do anything really strange. Heard a good pop like I hit the chest cavity and the buck bounded off about 30 yards.
Here’s where I gets weird, after 30 yards the buck stopped and looked around. Probably for 5 minutes at least. Then he slowly walked off. He never blew or got out of a walk. 45 minutes to an hour later we got down super quietly and I snuck out to glass the field from the edge hoping he would be laying there, he wasn’t. Me and a buddy searched for an hour at least just for the arrow. Never found it and there was no blood at all until we got to where the buck stopped to look at us.
We found 5-6 pools of bright red blood about the size of baseballs spread out about 10 feet from each other. After 30 or so yards the blood trail went to pin drops then vanished. We grid searched the next 200 yards and checked all fencerows and ditches well. Never found another drop. The field is short grass, I’m confident we would have seen blood or the body if it was there.
I’ll be going back tomorrow, but not hopeful as it’s going to rain tonight.
Any ideas? I’m pretty frustrated.
605 grain Easton axis arrow with G5 montec
Had a small buck come in at 23 yards. Perfectly broadside and calm, grazing along a field edge with short grass.
I waited until he was a couple steps past me so that I could get a slight quartering away shot.
Here’s my aim point. I didn’t see the arrow impact, but felt 100% like everything in the shot was perfect. He didn’t duck extremely hard or do anything really strange. Heard a good pop like I hit the chest cavity and the buck bounded off about 30 yards.
Here’s where I gets weird, after 30 yards the buck stopped and looked around. Probably for 5 minutes at least. Then he slowly walked off. He never blew or got out of a walk. 45 minutes to an hour later we got down super quietly and I snuck out to glass the field from the edge hoping he would be laying there, he wasn’t. Me and a buddy searched for an hour at least just for the arrow. Never found it and there was no blood at all until we got to where the buck stopped to look at us.
We found 5-6 pools of bright red blood about the size of baseballs spread out about 10 feet from each other. After 30 or so yards the blood trail went to pin drops then vanished. We grid searched the next 200 yards and checked all fencerows and ditches well. Never found another drop. The field is short grass, I’m confident we would have seen blood or the body if it was there.
I’ll be going back tomorrow, but not hopeful as it’s going to rain tonight.
Any ideas? I’m pretty frustrated.