It always amazes me that a whitetail can travel so far or get away all together when you only get one lung. I just don’t get how any creature can survive when a modern broadhead cuts through one of their lungs, and they cannot call 911 and get driven to a trauma center.
Last week a good friend of mine shot a doe at about 20 yards. According to him he hit her a bit high and foreword. We waited about 4 hours and and started the track, and the first 50-60 yards lots of good bright red blood with bubbles being SPRAYED. After the first 60-65 yards the blood trail went to pin drops feet apart. Then she opened back up to easy tracking. Then she dried up again and went into a brushy area. I told my friend let her go and come back in the AM she might be dead in that thicket somewhere. So we left it. I had to work, so he went back alone. Said she dried up totally after another 40-50 yards and she never laid down. This AM I was finally off again, and I thought I’m going back in there and see if I can find her even though the meat is way past being edible. I searched high and low and not a trace of a dead deer. The wind is blowing fairly good so I got way down wind of where I thought she’d be and tried to catch a whiff of decomp. Nothing! I almost believe she is still alive and healing up. I wasn’t there to observe the shot but my friend is experienced and knows what he’s looking at most of the time. So, I believe he hit her pretty close to what he said.
I just don’t understand how they do it! This isn’t the first time I’ve seen a single lunged deer not be recovered!
Last week a good friend of mine shot a doe at about 20 yards. According to him he hit her a bit high and foreword. We waited about 4 hours and and started the track, and the first 50-60 yards lots of good bright red blood with bubbles being SPRAYED. After the first 60-65 yards the blood trail went to pin drops feet apart. Then she opened back up to easy tracking. Then she dried up again and went into a brushy area. I told my friend let her go and come back in the AM she might be dead in that thicket somewhere. So we left it. I had to work, so he went back alone. Said she dried up totally after another 40-50 yards and she never laid down. This AM I was finally off again, and I thought I’m going back in there and see if I can find her even though the meat is way past being edible. I searched high and low and not a trace of a dead deer. The wind is blowing fairly good so I got way down wind of where I thought she’d be and tried to catch a whiff of decomp. Nothing! I almost believe she is still alive and healing up. I wasn’t there to observe the shot but my friend is experienced and knows what he’s looking at most of the time. So, I believe he hit her pretty close to what he said.
I just don’t understand how they do it! This isn’t the first time I’ve seen a single lunged deer not be recovered!