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things to keep in mind after shooting a deer

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bradsmith2010:
great suggestions,,  (SH)

StickMark:
Osage Outlaw,

Second the summer season suggestion.  I often hunted a high but still hot wilderness valley in our Arizona velvet season, but this last harvest made me realize how foolish that may have been.  Best case: release arrow, wait 45 min's, go track, start cutting and boning, pack it out super fast, around three and a half hours best case.  Bad hit, in temps of 90's, bad deal.

Pappy:
Gut shot I wait a minimum of 4 hours, ponch shot 12 hours, flesh wounds I get on soon, as others have said from experience I kind of have an idea of how long to wait, if like Clint I see the arrow and blood pouring as it leaves I ease down and leave in the other direction to the cabin, change cloth and take up the track, on the other hand if it is a questionable shot I stay quite and in the stand for at least 30 minutes then ease out in the opposite direction and give it some time. As b-d said I don't even look for the arrow. I don't know how many tracks I have been on and the guy says he hasn't pushed the deer and as we track he says I didn't find any blood here and we may be 30 /40 yards into it. ::) Especially older deer will head home, where ever that is at if pushed, if not most will bed within 100 yards of the hit if they don't know what happened to them. Once they figure out you are looking for them all bets are off, if they can move they will. :)
 Pappy

BowEd:

--- Quote from: Pappy on October 31, 2017, 03:26:28 am ---Gut shot I wait a minimum of 4 hours, ponch shot 12 hours, flesh wounds I get on soon, as others have said from experience I kind of have an idea of how long to wait, if like Clint I see the arrow and blood pouring as it leaves I ease down and leave in the other direction to the cabin, change cloth and take up the track, on the other hand if it is a questionable shot I stay quite and in the stand for at least 30 minutes then ease out in the opposite direction and give it some time. As b-d said I don't even look for the arrow. I don't know how many tracks I have been on and the guy says he hasn't pushed the deer and as we track he says I didn't find any blood here and we may be 30 /40 yards into it. ::) Especially older deer will head home, where ever that is at if pushed, if not most will bed within 100 yards of the hit if they don't know what happened to them. Once they figure out you are looking for them all bets are off, if they can move they will. :)
 Pappy

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That's pretty much the size of it.Your right Pappy.I will add a hard hit deer most times will run downhill/tail down on it's own if not pushed or scared and your looking for a blood trail.

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