Today I shot and killed a doe with them and the arrow went straight throw her. I watched where she fell about 80 yards away but there was no blood to be found on the ground where I hit her or a trail. The arrow was cover in it. My question is normal and my other question it better to have the arrow go all the way throw or to stay in the deer?
IMO the blood trail has more to do with where exactly you hit the deer than the broadhead you're shooting. I've shot deer with tiny broadheads and had amazing trails, and also shot them with big expandables and had so-so trails. It all boils down to which veins, arteries and organs you hit, how high on the animal the shot was (and exit is) and if anything gets into the exit would and plugs up the hole. The most common shot I've seen with little to no blood but the animal falling within sight is a high lung shot. They tend to bleed internally and fill up with blood, but not much comes out. It's happened to me a few times now. As for the arrow passing through - in my experience if you get a good shot through the boiler room and don't hit any bones or big muscles like the shoulder you will get more pass throughs than not. Pretty much every straight double lung shot I've ever got on a whitetail I've had complete pass through, especially with fixed blade heads. In my experience I prefer to have the arrow go all the way through, or at least enough to create an exit hole. Exit wounds are generally lower since you're up in a tree, and cause better external bleeding and better blood trails.
Ok that is making more sense. It was a high shoulder shot and exit lower half of her other shoulder. For some odd reason I was thinking the arrow should hit like a bullet. You wanted the bullet to mushroom instead up going through the animal.
I shot a deer the first morning with the nap bloodrunner two blade 100 grain, I was about 20 foot up and he walked 5 yards away and I shot him little bit quartering away, went in but didnt pass through, I shot an older martin and I know it isn't the fastest or quietest but when I gutted him it was buried in his opposite arm pit. I had about a 6 inch wide blood trail for 20 yards and he dropped in his tracks, not sure what happened with yours but I love my bloodrunners. I never seen a hole or blood trail like that. Sometimes they just don't bleed as much I guess or could have been internal. Atleast ya gotta em though Merica'
