TP is in my pack ready for the morning! South of the twin cities, Scott county area. I have a couple places throughout the state though, some by worthington, ottertail, and Marshall.
Colton what part of MN you in? I think overnight should be fine, it's starting to get nice and cool at night finally.
Well unfortunately after several hours of tracking I was unsuccessful. I followed the blood trail for about 200 yards and the blood slowly stopped and the trail led off of the property I can hunt.
Why? Seriously, why do you continue to give this horrible advice about liver hits....??? It is not true and several good folks here have been very kind to point that out more than once. You could not be more wrong. Liver hits are quite often not fatal for up to several hours. Please, for the betterment of our sport, quit giving horrible advice to our beginner members about liver shot deer. It simply is not true and leads to bumped and lost deer.
If I think I hit the liver and nothing else good besides possibly one lung=I wait a minimum of 3 hours before even moving in that deers direction.
You got lots of good feed back from others. Im also a public land hunter in minnesota, I hope you find her, or whats left of her. Only advice I have is for your next hunt, wait for the broadside or quartering away shot. Good Luck
Based on my own 37 years of bowhunting the same dirt and 800 bowkills, countless bloodtrails, over 100 video kills, 100 by myself, I have never seen a liver hit bow deer make it past 45 minutes. Nobody can tell if it's liver or guts so You would never bump that hit anyway. I have watched and timed 12 myself expire inside of 1 hour and it was a liver hit. We have had countless deer bow hit with unreal stories of the mythical phantom air gap, ect. You are convinced thru the internet this was a liver hit? Based on what? He trail it 300 yards with no bed, hit a twig, I still say brisket, biceps, leg hit. Here's one from 12 days ago. Liver? Guts? Dead? She is still vertical and happy as of 4 hours ago. The only for sure in bowhunting is complete uncertainty without video evidence to help. "For the betterment of our sport?" We all have opinions based on the op's statement. Opinions are like rectums, we all have one and they all stink. Chill out bro.
First of all, I never once said the particular deer in question was liver hit. No idea where you came up with that. My only gripe is that you continue to state that ALL liver hit deer will die within 45 minutes. It simply is not true and is horrible advice. I don't care how many animals you have killed or how many of them were hit in the liver or how many of them died instantly. It does not change the fact that MANY hunters here have witnessed with their own eyes the results of a liver hit. In many cases, those deer lived for many hours. I also have well over 30 years of bow-hunting experience with kills from the southern tip of Texas to the James Bay area of Quebec. It does not make me the end-all, be-all of bow-hunting, but I certainly have sense enough to know that there is no way all deer hit in the liver are dead inside of an hour. I don't make a habit of sniffing rectums so I don't know about that part. You got me there bro.
I thought I would share this... That is the liver of the buck I shot on the morning of 11/3. Clearly you can see the broadhead went through the liver and it hit no other vitals. I waited two hours before taking up the track of the deer only to have him stand, blow and jump away when we were about twenty yards from where he had bedded down. Forty-five minutes my... Luckily, we did find him stiff as board about thirty or forty yards from where we jumped him when we took up the track again that afternoon.
