At about 6:20, I thought I was gonna have one of the best nights in a while as I had just double lunged my first bow kill doe... And to top it off, I even got the whole thing on video (which I will be uploading when I get home) until.... I realized I forgot my flashlight and had to get out my stand before dark, I didn't want to push the doe so I sat at the base of the tree for about 25 minutes when my buddy came to the plot to help me track... Started off great! Great blood trail for about 50 yards, when EVERYTHING went downhill from there... I hunt in kentwood, la where most of the property is swamp and marshes between plots on the plots, but anyway... The deer crossed the first ravine which was about 6 foot deep so we went around and were back on the trail in about 15 minutes... We both figured the deer would be close considering we had already gone about 60 yards... Too bad the Damn deer kept going! To make a long story short, after 2 hours of tracking through swamps and thorn bushes and crawling under thickets (where I ripped my brand new scent blocker pants) the blood trail just stopped...... The wound clotted up, we scanned about a 30 yard radius of last signs and found nothing after 30 minutes.... So I'm already bummed only to find out we forgot to mark the trail and found ourselves lost for 45 minutes trying to back track with both of our phones being dead.... Well, we found our way back to the camp and are now heading home! Overall, worst night ever in every way possible!
It sounds like it wasn't as good of a shot as you had hoped. About your flashlight... been there done that (last week in fact).. About the scent blocker clothes, that sucks that you ripped something so expensive. Better luck next time. Chin up
I'm almost positive it was a good shot though, thay what's so disappointing! I have the whole thing including the shot and impact on video which ill post when I get home so you can see, unless I'm blind... But the blood was also very thick and full of bubbles so I don't know what else to think... Either way, not gonna sleep good knowing that deer went through all that and I'm not gonna be able to go look tomorrow...
Just have to go home and try to get some sleep! Get up early and put a search party together. Sure you will find her just have to put in the time. She may actually be closer then you think. Lot of times they have a habit of turning around so where that blood trial ended start searching from taht point in all directions not just the direction she was going! Good luck sure she is laying dead somewhere by now!
Brother I feel ya. I done the same thing about 2 weeks ago. Just one of those frustrating days when you wish you could just forget it ever happened.
Yep, it does sound like a terrible experience? Why won't you be able to go back tomorrow? Recovering deer is a lot easier in the daylight and that may be the silver lining to such a bad experience. Good luck!
Its not my property, its a freind of the familys where me and my buddy go every weekend.... The owner of the propery had to work early in the morning and we live 1.5 hours away so he coouldnt stay and my friend had to do service hours at 6 am for religeon to get confirmed and i rode up there with him so i wouldnt have a way home if i stayed
Terrible night!!!! At about 6:20, I thought I was gonna have one of the best nights in a while as I had just double lunged my first bow kill doe If you double lunged the deer it IS dead.... And to top it off, I even got the whole thing on video (which I will be uploading when I get home) until.... I realized I forgot my flashlight and had to get out my stand before dark, I didn't want to push the doe so I sat at the base of the tree for about 25 minutes when my buddy came to the plot to help me track... Started off great! Great blood trail for about 50 yards, when EVERYTHING went downhill from there... I hunt in kentwood, la where most of the property is swamp and marshes between plots on the plots, but anyway... The deer crossed the first ravine which was about 6 foot deep so we went around and were back on the trail in about 15 minutes... We both figured the deer would be close considering we had already gone about 60 yards... Too bad the Damn deer kept going! To make a long story short, after 2 hours of tracking through swamps and thorn bushes and crawling under thickets (where I ripped my brand new scent blocker pants) the blood trail just stopped...... The wound clotted up A Double lung shot deer is NOT going to clot, it is dead and the blood trail is out there in the daylight, swamp or no swamp, we scanned about a 30 yard radius of last signs and found nothing after 30 minutes.... So I'm already bummed only to find out we forgot to mark the trail and found ourselves lost for 45 minutes trying to back track with both of our phones being dead.... Well, we found our way back to the camp and are now heading home! Overall, worst night ever in every way possible! Take marking tape and/or toilet paper and mark every place you find blood. A doubled lunged deer will not go far. NOW, a single lung shot deer where the other lung is just slightly cut could go for hundreds of yards. I would prepare myself mentally to be looking for hundreds of yards. Bring water and food to keep yourself going for many hours if need be. Earlier in my bowhunting life I made MANY mistakes on tracking. I cannot tell you how many times sheer persistence and being stubborn helped me find deer that many people would have given up on. However, I did lose some as well. Do not give up.
That's incorrect. I double-lunged my doe 3 weeks ago and she went 400 yds. It's very possible. I posted the story on here afterwards. As the others suggested, if there is any way possible to get back out, I'd do it if I were you. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
You need to get back out and keep tracking her. It is all part of hunting and if you don't have the means to do it you need to find a way. Your responsibility to do so. You took the shot now find her!
If I am hunting in a place that I know I will not be able to get back if I have to track a deer, I do NOT hunt the last day I am there. This way if I shoot one, I know I have a full day to track if needed. You need to find a ride or somehow get back there to track it. If you lived close to me, I would give you a ride and help you out with tracking.
If your old enough to drive and have a vehicle,then you've got a way to get back that find that deer. On most of the deer I've double lunged,I've either seen or heard em crash out.The few that didn't just crash were usually found under a tree top,brush pile,or something close to where the blood trail ended.Usually within 10 or 15 yards,just hidden under something. As hunters,we owe it to the game we chase to make clean humane kills and make every effort to recover them.It's our responsibility to not leave them laying to rot in the woods.
Took yalls advice and Just got back from the camp again with nothing.... Went back to last spot of blood from last night and got there in about 5 minutes due to a shortcut that I found last night while lost (my way out). Again I scanned the area for a LONG time! Probably about 2.5 to 3 hours and walked around it probably .5 to a mile away from it in all directions and could not find even a single spec of blood! I read online that There is a zone on the whitetail that is high (but still under the spine) and a little back where you can think you've made a kill shot and get a nice long blood trail, but you've missed the vitals and the deer will clot up and live. I'm really hoping this is the case and I thought I made a lung shot and the deer will live through all of this. This is the link to the video of the shot, the deer shows up at about 1:30: Again, I'm hoping I didnt hit where I thought and she will live through all of it. Well, I've learned from ALL of my mistakes made last night being my first shot with my bow and will be back out next weekend... If i get a shot off, I will be staying in my stand for about 1-2 hours later (light or not) and got back to the camp and wait another few hours where I will THEN go to track with tissues like yall said.
Sorry about your situation. Have you played the video in SlowMo at all. It looked like it might have been a little low to me? But its hard to see on You Tube.
A few things I noticed. The doe might have been slightly quartering toward you. It's near leg was back thereby it's shoulder covered part of the kill zone. AND the shot looked a little high and forward. Did you find the arrow?
