I shot a doe this evening in the frigid cold. Friend got it on video. The picture shows the lighted nock as it enters the deer, slightly quartering away from me. The deer mule kicked but ran 80 yards stood in the same spot for 25 minutes then after we got out of stand she ran a short distance up hill and bedded. We returned 3 hours after the shot and (think) we jumped her. So I will return in the morning and resume the search. Not much blood in the snow or her bed. The arrow has tallow, blood and some green colored stuff on it but does not stink. Initially I thought I shot low but after reviewing the camera the shot appears maybe a little back but pretty good. She actually ducked into the arrows path. What do you guys think? I have had a terrible year trying to shoot does. I lost another one very similar to this but it was not on video.
I am disregarding the mule kick... The one that run off and stand there for awhile almost always are hit in the abdominal area.
Sounds like she started to clot up... and the green is most likely a gut shot. She may or may not make it... I'd lean toward death from infection if you missed the lungs and liver. However, all it takes is a little slice on the liver... hope you found her this morning!
I am willing to say part of the guts. Unfortunately that is a 8 or more hour wait. Hopefully if you did jump her she didn't go far before laying back down (which happens a lot epecially if you backed out). Did you get anymore snow over night? I'd get on the set of tracks and hope to stumble upon a doe kill. Please let us know if you find her.
Well I started where we left the bed last night. Went a short distance and saw her laying, alive, about 60 yards in front of me. She ran off after seeing me but she was not moving real fast. I called my friend who was with last night and he said back out but I decided to press on as there was plenty of blood in the snow where she ran, it almost appeared the blood was spraying. I continued this for quite a ways maybe a mile jumping her about every 100 yards or so. I then ran her into a small wood lot on some property I did not have permission to go on. I watched her bed there and then went to get the permission I needed. I waited another hour. I was able to sneak up on her from behind and shoot her again as she was bedded. Had I left her until tomorrow I would have found her dead in this last bed. She had ice sickles hanging from her mouth. As it turns out the hit was 5 inches behind the shoulder blade and exited at the white hair line on the opposite side, so in the chest cavity. I had cut the back of one lung, along way from the guts. I think pushing her was the right thing to do in this case but would never recommend it obviously. The regular temperature when I found her was -8 and the wind chill is -35....weather in WI we love. Go Packers !!!
