Shot a PIG..Bad hit. Need help, please !!!!! (photos)

Yes, I am a hunter. But if it makes you feel better, my brother gut shot a doe with a 30-30, because his scope had gotten off prior to season beginning. She went a 1/2 mile or so.

 

Gotta be careful what I say here, VABowbender may jump out of the bushes and whip me.

Anyways......In that situation, it all depends where its hit. If the arrow doesn't enter the intestinal area and release gasses into the meat, your deer would be just as edible the next morning as if you found it within the hour. Now, if it were gut shot, it would most likely still be good in the morning because it would have taken the deer about 10 hours to die.

I honestly think a lot of guys get paranoid about meat and temps.

 

Dan, I was told that given the possible location of the hit that the deer may not expire for 8 to 12 hours.....that was based on the same info you guys read here.....and, assuming an artery or guts were not hit.

Would u agree ?

 

Good luck and that seems to be one hell of a torque move you have.

The trail should be a bloody mess if you hit the artery. You will know pretty quick into trail.

Every deer my family has shot in the back leg we have found.

 

Sorry for being dense, but would I agree with what?

 

Thanks Germ..

I only went to the impact area but I looked where the deer went and there was only spotty blood...not looking good for an artery but hopefully if the head didn't hit it, hopefully the arrow snapped and severed it further in...

What's a torque move ?

 

Dan....would u agree that it could take upwards of 12 hours for the deer to expire....

 

And if it makes you feel better, I had a dude hit a bear in the forearm (below the elbow) this year and it ran 100 yards.....blood everywhere. Oh, and we waited 14-15 hours before we looked and we could have gone 2 minutes after he shot. The meat was fine and temps were in the upper 40s that night.

 

I concur Dan. In both the cases that I was talking about (mine and DofB) there was and is a fair chance that those gases could have and may come into play. I'm real glad that I went after mine when I did, but given the circumstances with DofB's shot location, I'd be waiting until first light and not any later to look for this deer. If it's not dead by then, it should be significantly close or a survivor.

Draw, I think you already can see, Dan, being a guide and outfitter is quite an asset to the members of this forum. I would trust his advice over many. Again, good luck tomorrow. While I am getting blown around in my tree, I'll be wondering how you're making out.

 

Thought that's what you meant. Here is part of my original post in the thread.....

Yes, I agree it could take up to 12 hours.

 

Totally agree Ben. The buck I shot in 2008 was liver and gut and we waited 6 hours, but he died within 10 minutes of being shot. In that case, had I waited too much longer, the meat wouldn't have been good. I guess I was just talking about.....ah, you know what I meant! LOL!

 

The blood everywhere thing worries me........

I saw only marginal blood in the area of the shot. I was thinking it was more of a muscle wound, at first...until my brother showed me the circulatory anatomy diagram of a whitetail.

Guess there's nohig left to do but exhaust recovery efforts...

 

I think you're concentrating too much on the idea that you may have caught an artery, which from what you're describing, you didn't. Let me ask again to clarify.....how much penetration do you think you had?

 

Arrow appeared to have burried to the fletch, or closer..and I got a good look cuz the deer, at one point after the shot, was running dead away from me and I saw the arrow sticking out...just hard to tell where it exited cuz how quickly it all happened.


Is there a chance that he could still expire without having hit a major blood pathway like an artery or vein ? Even if guts were not hit ?

 

Good Luck in the AM

Trust DAN, he will NOT lead you down the wrong path!!!!!!!

 

Well, if it was quartering away and you burried it to the fletch then the chances of hitting the artery are pretty slim. Sounds to me like its all gut shot.....you'll find him in the morning. Just don't give up.

 

After this is all over, remember to trim off any limbs around your stand so it doesn't happen again. Even as a gun hunter, I've always been paranoid about deflections, so I spend the first few days before season start trimming limbs, and under brush around my blind and in my lanes. But I know none of us are immune to crap happens situations.

I really hope this goes well for you. I can only imagine what it's like trying to think about sleeping right now.

 

Thanks mud....yea sounds like there is more knowledge on this site than i could digest in 2 years

 

I gotta give you props though dude for having the presence of mind to remember what happened after the shot. If more people did exactly what you have and had the patience to wait, there would be a lot more happy endings to stories like this. I honestly have 100% confidence you will find him in the morning and my guess is he will be no more than 200 yards away and in his first bed.

 

You've been given the exact same excellent advice I would have given had I been here earlier.... 'course, that's why I hang with these guys!

Good luck, I can't wait to come back home after tomorrow morning's hunt and see your smiling mug behind your first pig of a deer!