arrow in skeleton?

gznokes

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I hear people say all the time how bow hunters get a worse rap than rifle/muzz hunters because people find carcass with arrows or broadheads in it. In all my years hunting and crisscrossing the hills I've only found one carcass with an arrow in it.

How many have times have some of you found a skeleton or a carcass with an arrow in it? Am i just not looking close enough?

http://www.monstermuleys.info/photos/user_photos/2711mikeflo4(nov)-bone.jpg
 
One more try on the pic. I didn't find this. I just saw it on the grim reaper website. (The guy recovered this animal.)

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I found one once. But that is because my friend shot it and we keep looking or it long into the fall. He went through the bone in the front shoulder and into the bone of the other front shoulder and the arrow plugged up the holes and the deer died about 400 yards from the shot, but was in such thick brush we walked by the deer about 5 times previously to finding it after the leaves fell.

I do not like expandable broadheads.
 
Never found a carcass with an arrow in it... But I have found 2 carcasses that might have been bow kills... based solely on the time of year they were found...

However, my uncle killed a 170" buck in Wyoming years ago... When we skinned it out, we found multiple bullet holes in the hide... Near as we could tell, he had 3 holes from a very small caliber gun (probably a .22) and 2 holes from larger caliber ammo... We figured someone had plugged him with a .22 probably in an attept to poach him, and he was shot at least twice with higher caliber rifles. These were healed wounds, but were still pretty obvious upon skinning him out.

It's not just archers that don't kill game... That's cool pic you posted


"Therefore, wo be unto him that is at ease in Zion!" 2 Ne. 28: 24
 
I found a deer while fly fishing this year with a clean pass thru right in the kill zone with a arrow. died in the river. found a Bull elk a few years back in the river as well with a arrow in him.
All i can say is it happens.

-"mello"
 
LAST EDITED ON Nov-10-10 AT 11:56AM (MST)[p]Back in the young and dumb high school stage, my buddy hit and wounded a small forky buck...never found it. Needless to say, he was pretty bummed. A year later, we were flinging arrows at a target in the same vicinity. I decided it would be fun to shoot an old cardboard box out of the air (still young and dumb). My friend tossed it up...and I let fly. We watched as the arrow missed the box and arched through the sky like a tomahawk missile. When we took the long walk to retrieve the arrow....I lie not...there was my arrow amongst a pile of bones...accompanied by his arrow from the year before. We were stunned at the odds. That's the only verified archery kill I've ever found...and it was directly linked to us.
 
Hey maybe you found out the BEST way to find a downed animal!

Just shoot an arrow up in a high arch and walk to where it lands.
 
I found a dead 3 point this year on the archery hunt. his ribs were broken up high in the back, you could see where the bullet hit bone there. he was down in a dark nasty hole. ironically we were tracking another buck into the same hole that my buddy hit on the archery hunt.
 
I found this one this year up at fishlake.
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I was surprised how many arrows I found up there during the LE and deer hunt, 4 in all.
 
A few years ago I found a spit fire broad head in the front shoulder of the 159" whitetail I killed in Wyoming. It looked to be a couple years old because all of the muscle tissue had grown around it under the skin. Pretty cool to find.

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I was quartering a deer a few years ago and in removing the backstrap I found a piece of arrow shaft and broadhead buried in the middle of the backstrap. The wound was completely healed over and didn't seem to have affected the buck much. Not sure how long it had been there, but the buck was 6.5 years old. Not too far either way and whoever shot him with an arrow may have recovered him.
 
I haven't ever found an animal with an arrow in it but when I was either 14 or 15 me and my dad found a cow elk that had been shot in the rear hind quarter. It was still alive and it was obvious it was a bullet wound and not from an arrow. This was during the archery hunt and there was no rifle or muzzleloader season open for elk at the time. I felt bad because the animal was obviously suffering very bad but there was nothing we could do unless we wanted to potentially get blamed for poaching it, so we just called the DWR and explained where the animal was.
 
I killed a bull 24 years ago that is hangin in my office, my best elk ever. When we skinned him I found a ball of gristle under the shoulder blade about the size of a soft ball, inside the ball of gristle was a zwickey broadhead and about 6" of the arrow shaft. The ironic part of this story is about 2 years later a gentleman walked into my office and was admiring my elk mount and said, "did you kill that bull in the end of the long meadow below the tower?" I was speechless, that is exactly where I killed the bull. He said "I wounded a bull up there 4 tears ago on the archery hunt that looked just like him and we never did find him." I reached in my desk drawer and pulled out the arrow shaft and showed it to him. It was his arrow, the stories were exchanged and we had a great visit. I still relive that hunt over and over because of the way it turned out...One of my best memories ever..
Later, L.T.
 
My brother in law shot a oryx here in NM with a radio collar on it on his once in a life time hunt. When we caped it out we found the needle from the tranquilizer dart. I never realized that the needles were so big. It was about 3" deep in the shoulder and measured 2&1/2" in length. That needle was big!
 
looks like it may have missed anything important. hope he makes it through the winter.
 
I saw a deer on the winter range by Marbleton last year with an arrow lodged in his spine. He seemed to be just fine.


Sit tall in the saddle, hold your head up high, keep your eyes fixed to where the trail meets the sky...
 
Buddy shot a big whitetail in Kansas and when they were butchering it they found a broad head in the spine. The deer was in perfect condition and you would not have known anything had happened and they did not until the butcher hit it while processing.
 

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