I will tell you the full story after I recover the deer. My question is... Does a liver hit look the same as a lung hit? The hit was a pass through will bright red blood. Does a live r hit look the same?
I believe a liver shot is supposed to be dark red. Is that arrow red from the start or is that from all the blood.
There are some big arteries running through the center of the liver, if you hit one of those, the blood will be bright red and your arrow should be coated with blood. Catch one of the outer edges of liver lobes and the blood will be fairly dark.
The arrow is black. I'm so sick about it. I looked all day Saturday with three helpers and we didn't recover the deer. I used an lustrous bleak call to get him to coke to the field edge. From there the decoy that i made a fake tail for with some fishing line to move the tail made him commit. At 25 yards I drilled him. He took off and turned around 40 yards from the decoy. He slowly walked off. I decided to back out and look for him in the morning. There was great blood for 100 yards and then it just stopped. We looked for 6 hours on Saturday and did not find him. Although he is not my biggest deer he deserved the respect to be recovered. I even tried finding a blood hound for hire... The only local ones are in Maryland right now. Sorry to rant.... I'm just so mad at myself for not recovering a wounded animal
The blood on a liver hit should be darker red in general, but where you really see the difference is in the blood on the ground. Liver hits will not spray out like a lung hit. It will look more like a leaky bucket with drips or blotches every couple feet. Lung blood should look more like you dipper you fingers in red paint and flicked it at a canvas. Liver is fatal but can be a bugger. I had one that went 50 yards last month and there was 2 drops of blood from the hit to where I watched her bed down and give up about 3 minutes later. Entry hole was great but up high and and the exit was low was clogged with a big piece of fat. We got her back to the truck and as we put her on my deer carrier the fat chuck came out like a cork and gallons of blood came pouring out oh her. Unfortunately every shot is just a little different. Hope you fine him, good luck.
that dark little piece on the flething looks like a liver shot. you must give a liver shot at least 3 hours if not more to expire, because they can still be alive and run off. My buck last year was liver shoot and made it about 100 yards before he went down. allthought I shot him with a 12 gauge.
