blazingsaddle
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I need some advise as where I possibly hit a buck and how to handle finding him.
The condensed story goes: Saturday around 10:00 I hit a good 4x5, due to the snow and fog, I could not track my arrow placement. He ran 100 yards or so and layed down. He had two does with im and when they would walk away, he would follow the best he could. After 7-8 hundred yards of trying he layed down and watched his does leave the drainage. The fog came in for 2 hours or so, when it lifted, he was gone. I figured it had been 3-4 hours since I hit him. I tracked him from a good blood trail and jumped him out of some scrub oak. I watched him side hill out of the drainage and drop into the next canyon. He moved really well, even jumping over thick stuff, but he still had to stop every hundred yards or so.
I left his track that night and continued sunday morning. Sunday I found 19 different places where he had layed down throughout the night, bleeding the entire trail. After being shot he has traveld less than 1/2 mile. In three or so of his beds, there was along with blood, a yellowish, clear liquid in a 3 foot radius to the side of his body imprint. It smelled like stomach to me, but possibly urine? It had to pumped or sprayed/misted from him as he lay.
I caught up to him 3 hours later as I jumped him from another thick patch. It was too thick to see how he was moving, but from the looks of things- he was still moving well. BUt still bleeding. I backed off again not to keep pushing him.
The blood trail is good by my book, i know the snow makes it look better than it might be- but blood has been squirting out of him for 30 plus hours. It was hard to go 10 yards and not see blood. Most of the blodd is smaller drops, but 1-2 feet off his tracks looking like it was squirting not dripping from him?
Any thoughts as to where I may have hit him? From the times I saw him walking, he is not limping or favoring a leg. My best guess is I hit him just in front of the hind quarter, possibly clipping some stomach? How long can it take for an animal to expire if hit in the stomach?
I am taking work off tomorrow to look again before the snow melts. Any suggestions? I am at a complete loss of what to do next? Other than making the 2 hour hike back to look for him again.
The condensed story goes: Saturday around 10:00 I hit a good 4x5, due to the snow and fog, I could not track my arrow placement. He ran 100 yards or so and layed down. He had two does with im and when they would walk away, he would follow the best he could. After 7-8 hundred yards of trying he layed down and watched his does leave the drainage. The fog came in for 2 hours or so, when it lifted, he was gone. I figured it had been 3-4 hours since I hit him. I tracked him from a good blood trail and jumped him out of some scrub oak. I watched him side hill out of the drainage and drop into the next canyon. He moved really well, even jumping over thick stuff, but he still had to stop every hundred yards or so.
I left his track that night and continued sunday morning. Sunday I found 19 different places where he had layed down throughout the night, bleeding the entire trail. After being shot he has traveld less than 1/2 mile. In three or so of his beds, there was along with blood, a yellowish, clear liquid in a 3 foot radius to the side of his body imprint. It smelled like stomach to me, but possibly urine? It had to pumped or sprayed/misted from him as he lay.
I caught up to him 3 hours later as I jumped him from another thick patch. It was too thick to see how he was moving, but from the looks of things- he was still moving well. BUt still bleeding. I backed off again not to keep pushing him.
The blood trail is good by my book, i know the snow makes it look better than it might be- but blood has been squirting out of him for 30 plus hours. It was hard to go 10 yards and not see blood. Most of the blodd is smaller drops, but 1-2 feet off his tracks looking like it was squirting not dripping from him?
Any thoughts as to where I may have hit him? From the times I saw him walking, he is not limping or favoring a leg. My best guess is I hit him just in front of the hind quarter, possibly clipping some stomach? How long can it take for an animal to expire if hit in the stomach?
I am taking work off tomorrow to look again before the snow melts. Any suggestions? I am at a complete loss of what to do next? Other than making the 2 hour hike back to look for him again.
