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High one lung maybe?

looking at the arrow and that very small spot of blood, compared to the size of the clover and grass, i dont think you got into the ribcage. it slipped behind the leg and down out the bottom, just a flesh wound.
 
The big spot of blood you last found - was it in between his tracks, shot side, or exit side?

exact distance of shot?

where on this grid do you think you hit him?

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I find it hard to believe the arrow looks like that after ONLY passing through skin and muscle.


I know it’s the internet and it’s hard to read tone/intent. But man - try a little harder to round up someone with a dog. It almost sounds like you don’t want to. They are amazing, and like was said before, most trackers will do anything to put their dog on a track. I have yet to see a dog in person not confirm a deer is dead or alive. I know it happens, but they are that good. They’re going to get to a dead deer, a live deer, or give you the confidence that the deer is not mortally wounded almost every time. It’s worth the effort to find someone.

if you shot the deer yesterday morning, meat will be fine until well into today.
 
If what I saw was right. I hit him B5 going down. I did get a hold of another guy late last night. He said he had another track this morning. I had to run into work for a little bit this morning. Hopefully I can get him out there and put some closure to this.
 
I read where you said 18’ up and 10 yard shot. That would put the angle through the deer at 30.964*.

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At that angle, assuming the deer is 16” wide, point of impact would be 9” higher than point of exit.

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At that angle, in order to 100% miss the offside lung, you would have to hit the deer at mid body or below. I’ve seen this shot on a few occasions. The hunter shot mid body not accounting for steep angle of shot.

if you’re confident you hit the deer below the spine and above mid body, and your arrow didn’t deflect severely upon impact, You should have blood coming out of both sides of the deer, and he won’t travel far.

were you able to confirm blood coming out of both sides of the deer on the trail? Or only one?

Cool skeleton for reference too.

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Were you following the blood trail and then saw a deer cross the road up ahead? You may have walked right past the deer you hit in pursuit of another one. As others mentioned, they sometimes take a hard turn.
 
So here's the over lay. The blue is were I was. Deer came in. Red is ruffly were I shot him. He ran into the feild and up. That's were the blood trail went. Because it was still before sunrise and trees in the way, I couldn't see up there. 1-2 minuets after I shot, I saw a buck (green) come across the top of the feild there. direct Down wind and then bolt across the road. So I cannot confirm it was the same deer. The large blood spot was up by the road. There was one little drop I found going away then nothing. I walked around that feild looking for blood along the grass. But didn't find any thing. I walked the road and looked at both sides. Later that evening I walked the feild edge across the road. High grass and green reeds at the edge . I couldn't see tracks in the feild. But the blood was all in a line. So does not appear to be both sides. But with all the white hair, I assume there was a good hole at the bottom. At first I assumed the deer that I saw run was him. Based on that I waited 2 hrs before I got down. Screenshot_20201031-081852~2.png
 
Sorry. I have no more ideas. Maybe it was a superficial hit.
 
If the deer is old, that white hair is usually just underneath. But younger bucks it can ride pretty high on the sides. Plus it isn’t a stark line - the hair blends at the transition of color.

what Broadhead do you use?

there should be dark hair from his back at the shot site too.

all speculation without video or a dog though. If I’m betting I’m betting he’s dead.
 
Sincyrman said:
Sometimes they make a huge direction change at the last spot you find any blood, or even back track. Gotta keep on the blood trail if at all possible.
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The buck I shot last year gave a poor blood trail due to no exit wound. Lost the trail at night and had to go back in the morning. The deer went 90 degrees at the last blood and went no more that 25 yds after that. Also shot a doe last year, single lung hit and that deer was alive 7 hrs later.
 
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