Badseed
WKR
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- Jul 10, 2020
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Last night I had a nice broad side shot at a bruiser buck a mere 38 yards away and downhill. After releasing the arrow I gave the buck 5-7 minutes to curl up and die before I started to look for him. I felt pretty confident in the shot so I thought my wait was long enough. The terrain here is nasty brushy for most part and we had a late heavy snow that downed a ton of trees last winter which made things even worse. Anyways, I searched for this buck for a while without seeing any blood trail, only going off of where I saw him run until he left my line of sight. After a bit of a search, I find the back 6” of my arrow covered in blood but nothing else. I searched for an an hour past dark and only found 1 more small drop of blood about 40 yards from the broken arrow. I started the search again this morning and spent 5 hours smashing through brush with my dad and we still didn’t find the buck. We did find one more small drop of blood about another 40 yards from the other drop but thats it. I am completely baffled. At this point I am frustrated to have wasted an animal but I am also trying to figure out what could have happened.
The shot was certainly in the front half of the body because the back half of him was blocked by an oak tree. I am using ramcat broad heads which have never allowed a buck to travel more than 100 yards after being hit. The my arrow is covered in blood which leads me to believe it was a good hit. I have been fortunate and have never needed to be a great blood tracker so I am willing to take any pointers your have. Here is a photo of the arrow and the size of the blood droplets. I just want to recover the buck at this point.
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The shot was certainly in the front half of the body because the back half of him was blocked by an oak tree. I am using ramcat broad heads which have never allowed a buck to travel more than 100 yards after being hit. The my arrow is covered in blood which leads me to believe it was a good hit. I have been fortunate and have never needed to be a great blood tracker so I am willing to take any pointers your have. Here is a photo of the arrow and the size of the blood droplets. I just want to recover the buck at this point.
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