DB4x4
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"I just shot a nice buck."
That's what the text from my Dad read one hour before dark on the last day of bow season. I told him to sit tight and I would there ASAP. He said the deer barely reacted to the shot, and walked away slowly until he went out of sight. This description gave me the bad feeling of either a clean miss or a gut shot.
He uses a Hickory Creek Mini set to 125# and 100 grain Swhacker heads with 2" cut. He was checking the shot site when I got there. A nice splatter of bright red blood, but no arrow. The blood trail was relatively easy to follow and within the first 30 yds I found the arrow...
Oh, no... He didn't. He couldn't have. Did he really? He did...
He accidentally shot the deer with the practice head. It's not a real broadhead, it doesn't open...
Ten inches of arrow covered in blood, no pass through. There's no way this deer is dead. One inch of dull practice "blade" cutting surface. My gut feeling says to back out and check in the morning. It's below freezing and won't make a difference. The coyotes though...
The blood trail tells a different story. It's everywhere. It looks like a Michael Myers movie scene.
Why? How? None of this makes sense...
Long story short, the deer walked 75 yds and fell over dead. Somehow. Unbelievably. Inexplicably.
This is not a recommendation for using the practice heads in the woods, haha. However, remember this story the next time you try to blame your unrecovered deer on your broadhead.
That's what the text from my Dad read one hour before dark on the last day of bow season. I told him to sit tight and I would there ASAP. He said the deer barely reacted to the shot, and walked away slowly until he went out of sight. This description gave me the bad feeling of either a clean miss or a gut shot.
He uses a Hickory Creek Mini set to 125# and 100 grain Swhacker heads with 2" cut. He was checking the shot site when I got there. A nice splatter of bright red blood, but no arrow. The blood trail was relatively easy to follow and within the first 30 yds I found the arrow...
Oh, no... He didn't. He couldn't have. Did he really? He did...
He accidentally shot the deer with the practice head. It's not a real broadhead, it doesn't open...
Ten inches of arrow covered in blood, no pass through. There's no way this deer is dead. One inch of dull practice "blade" cutting surface. My gut feeling says to back out and check in the morning. It's below freezing and won't make a difference. The coyotes though...
The blood trail tells a different story. It's everywhere. It looks like a Michael Myers movie scene.
Why? How? None of this makes sense...
Long story short, the deer walked 75 yds and fell over dead. Somehow. Unbelievably. Inexplicably.
This is not a recommendation for using the practice heads in the woods, haha. However, remember this story the next time you try to blame your unrecovered deer on your broadhead.