??? of the Day ... Gut Shot-You??

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It's a shame, but it happens. The question is, for those who have accidentally hit a deer in the guts, did you find it? How far did it go? Archery, rifle, muzz? How much blood? How long before you found it?

The story that comes to my mind is one of a buck my step-bro shot and hit in the guts archery hunting. I can't remember how far it went, but I do remember very little blood and when we caught up to it, it was still alive. Hard to see for sure.

Brian Latturner
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I started a GUT SHOT Thread a few years ago & got My Ass Reamed!

Nobody Shoots them in the GUTS!:D

Many Years ago I handed a Guy My 7MAG & said:Take him if you want him!

Buck was runnin like a Bat out of Hell!

He Squeezes off & in my Mind I can still hear the "SWAT"!

The Buck Run Quite a ways!

Guts were scattered across the Sage/PJ Terrain!

When We caught up to Him He was dead!

Best Damn way to GUT a Deer I ever seen!

There was nothing but Vitals left!

Didn't need to worry about puncturing the Stomach because it was gone!

I've got a GUT SHOT Story I pulled off myself!

Doubt many could handle the Story!

Let's Vote!

You wanna hear it?

Or not?













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don' think I ever gut shot a hopper, shot azzs clean off , but no gut shots, (elkassassin after seeing your shoulder shots think ill pass on the gut ones!!)
 
That's what I thought!

>don' think I ever gut
>shot a hopper, shot azzs
> clean off , but
>no gut shots, (elkassassin after
>seeing your shoulder shots
>think ill pass on the
>gut ones!!)










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My first buck at 16 years old, was bedded. I shot 3-4 inches low and broke his front leg. As he was hobbling away I shot him through the guts and out behind the front shoulder. I got around and jumped him again and shattered his back leg. One more miss and a final shot ended the chase. Total he went maybe 150 yards. Have never gut shot one since. I've never had buck fever since either.

Yelum

YBU

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I gutshot a deer that tipped over in about ten steps and died right there. I also gut shot a doe antelope, my next shot hit her in the neck, and then I realized I was out of ammo and I was about a mile from the truck. I had to finish her with my knife.
 
So HuntinFool?

Is this you?

And do you only carry 2 Bullets?:D

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Nope that's my little brother. That antelope was my first big game animal when I was 12 and I had already missed 3 times before I hit the doe with my last 2 bullets.
 
So HF?

You wear FLATTY'S!

And GUT Shoot!

:D:D:D!!!

>Nope that's my little brother. That
>antelope was my first big
>game animal when I was
>12 and I had already
>missed 3 times before I
>hit the doe with my
>last 2 bullets.










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Thanks a lot Bess! You just reminded me of the 3X4 that a buddy GUT SHOT 20+ years ago. It ran 50 yds and he put it down. I gag just thinking about it.
 
Hey Trix!

T'aint My Fault!

Fondler started the Thread!

You Votin Yes or No on the Next Gut Shot Story I Could Tell?:D








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I gut shot a whitetail deer 15 years ago. It was not a far shot. Deer was really skiddish and twisted right when I pulled the trigger. He was standing on the edge of some rim rock and immediately raced downhill out of sight. I gave him about an hour before follow up and I got some help. We tracked him about 400 yards where he ran into a fence. He did not want to cross the fence and he immediately changed direction 90 degrees. A lot of the old timers had told me how deer very often got to die near water when gut shot. After about 300 more yards the trail had dried up. I knew about a tight little waterhole about 100 yards away. The waterhole had a very dense thicket around it and I was literally crawling on my hands and knees to get to it. About 10 yards in I realized the buck was laying about five feet in front of me alive. I realized I had made my second dumb mistake for the day and had crawled in there without a weapon. I reversed out and whistled for my family to back out and meet me. My dad had a pistol and loaned it to me. I crawled back into the thicket and dispatched the buck. I was amazed how he had gotten himself in there. We had to cut a lot of briar just to get him out.

That is my one gut shot deer and I feel lucky he was recovered. I have helped many people track their gut shot deer and I think recovery rate has been probably around %40.

I know I would rather track deer with shot legs than deer with punched guts. I have noticed it seems we do better at recovering gut shot deer if it is really cold. They seem to travel shorter distances and hold tighter to their first bed. I also never look for one in the dark. Of course there are no rules for certain and if you recover him both you and he found mercy.
 
Close to 50 years ago my brother at 14 shot a buck in Nv. Yelled for me to help. He gut shot him. First gutshot cleaning I'd ever done and gagged the whole time. Fast forward 50 years and he arrows a cow and I see it running away with the arrow sticking out both sides. Track for 400yds and find her. Green goo coming out both sides of the arrow and her nose and mouth. Do the gutless and then he asks, how about the tenders. I look down at the green goo and say, if you wantem, go getem. They stayed there. Yuk.
 
I have gut-shot more critters than I can even remember.

Been big game hunting for over 40 years and killed probably over 100 critters. Can't remember them all, but I remember a lot!

Maybe I get too excited( Hell yeah) in the moment. When I quit getting excited( buck fever), I'll put up my rifle/bow/muzzleloader. That rush is one of the main reasons I hunt!

In all my years of hunting, I have only lost one critter; a nice pronghorn. That was well over 30 years ago, and I made several mistakes besides the poor shot. Mostly, I ran myself out of ammo while I was chasing the buck, and number 2, I gave up the search too easily. Lesson learned.

The last gut shot was a large whitey in Iowa with my bow( 2010). Hit a willow branch at 14 yds and deflected the arrow slightly back. Found him a couple hrs later piled up by a fence. The fence stopped him and he turned around to face his backtrail and expired there. The broadhead caused extensive damage. Lots of internal bleeding. Not a good blood trail; sometimes on hands and knees looking for blood droplets. But I never gave up the search.

No one ever gut-shoots anything, though!! :)
 
My Dad and I were hunting d-13 one year and I shot a buck up on top of a ridge. I knew he was hit and when we got to where he was there was a ton of blood. We expected to find him quickly but we followed the blood trail for about 250 yards and found a pool of blood where he must've stopped and looked back at us for a bit. The blood trail got less and less until he jumped up about 50 yards in front of us. I saw that the side of him was covered in blood and I had gut shot him. He was gone way to quick through the thick stuff to even get my gun up. No more blood was found but we followed his tracks until he got on some harder ground. The tracks disappeared and we lost him. We went back and found where he had bedded up for a bit while we were tracking him before he busted out. I was only 17 or so and I was really upset with myself.
I think it happens more than what guys really say. I try to save shoulder meat and maybe that makes a shot go a little far back sometimes. I've only lost 1 animal to being gut shot though. If that happens again, I would wait a couple hours and hopefully the animal will expire.

Cancer doesn't discriminate...don't take your good health for granted because it can be gone in a heartbeat. Please go back and read the last line. This time really understand what it says.
 
I know that i've shot a few that way but not many when you consider that i've probably shot over 100 bucks between Blacktail and Muleys.

I think some of the main reasons why not is that thru many years i shot my deer rifles competitively year round to some success, most of the animals i've taken were when i was off the beaten path on foot by myself, and with few if any other hunters around, i had plenty of opportunity to get into reasonable, for me, range and no need to hurry my shot. There's exceptions to everything.

I think in most cases, a gutshot buck, with a rifle anyway, is a dead buck and should most likely be recovered if the hunter is skilled and puts in the time needed to do so. Many, don't go very far at all but then there are the others of my worst nightmares.

I get tag(s) every year but if i knew my next buck was going to be gutshot or get away wounded, i'd never hunt deer again!

Joey


"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"
 
....if you hadn't run off all the entertainment you wouldn't have to resort to all these ????? of the day tactics.....


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I liked it big...fondler doesn't
 
I have only every gut-shot a deer with a bow. It was a great shot opportunity from 30 yards and the deer took a step forward right as I released my arrow. I gave him two hours because I knew it was a bad shot by the guts on the arrow. He went about a mile, but he was easy to track. He was dead when I found him. I got lucky on that one.

Dillon
 
Sorry Founder, but IMHO this is not a great thread. Talking about gut-shot animals just gives the antis more ammo.

I vote no to hearing bobcat's story...and no to any more stories period. Thankfully I don't have any of my own to tell.

How about the next question of the day is: What are your best tips for ensuring a clean, one-shot kill?

bcmulie
 
Well bcmulie, I agree that it is a bummer that many people have gut shot stories but the reality is that they do happen. This thread is useful because it can give a person some insight just in case they ever do gut shoot an animal.

In my life I have gut shot 3 animals all with a rifle. They did not bleed much at all (just a little green splatter or a clump of hair right where they got hit) and they did not go far initially. Each of them went about 100 yards and stopped. The first buck I gut shot as a kid I hit him twice in the guts and he went and stopped but I didn't wait at all and before he could lay down or anything I ended up running him off and I never found him, it still makes me sick to think about that!
With the other two, I waited for them to lay down and I got both of them. One, I found dead, the other I had to shoot again after I jumped him.

With all three, they put themselves in a place where they could see me tracking them. If I gut shoot one again (hopefully never) I would obviously wait a good 20-30 mins. but then I would also anticipate that the animal would run 100-300 yards and would put themselves in a place where they could see me coming. So if I were to track it to an opening, I would immediately glass the opposite side of the opening because in my experience, that is where they will lay in order to give themself as much time as possible to get up and get their adrenaline pumping to run again.
 
Hey Founder,

I do see the value of sharing information about how a gut-shot deer behaves and what is the best approach to follow up on one to ensure recovery.

I would actually be inclined to give them more than 20-30 minutes, so that they stiffen up and have more trouble making a quick exit when you catch up to them.

I guess what I have more issue with is the gut-shot "stories". But I can just blame bobcat for taking the thread that direction. :)

bcmulie
 
I watched a youth hunter gut shoot a deer this year. That buck was still walking an hour and a half after it was hit, and believe me it was hit hard. Thankfully the deer was recovered. It opened my eyes to how long a deer can live after being gut shot. I'd give a gut shot animal a minimum of 4-5 hours to expire.
 
No queasy stories here. The gutshot deer (308, straight through, 200 yds) I was involved in went to water, would not leave it. That deer lived 10 hours b4 I took the hunter to him for a finishing shot.
 

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