Strange Shot

[huntingfool43]

A freind took a shot at a doe Monday night.Tuesday morning he still had not found the deer and talked to me about it. Acordding to him the shot looked perfect. He had hit her right behind the front leg but didn't get a pass though. There was a real good blood trail for 3oo yards before it died out. I gave him hell for going after it to soon, he should have figured he only got 1 lung and should have waited till the next morning. He had given up finding her Tuesday afternoon. Well this morning(2 Days later) a local came in the store when I was having coffee and said he found a deer laying in the bean stubble about 70 yards off the road. This is the same feild that butted upto the woods where they finally lost her Monday night. As of 9:00 am she was still alive but barely, could not get up so he finished her off. Well I figured there was no way it was the same deer so about 11:00 I had time and drove out and looked at her and sure enough the arrow had hit her behind the bone in her front leg, looked perfect but never made it into the chest. Both lungs were still intact. Only thing I can figure is when the arrow hit she jerked her leg back and caused the arrow to deflect off ribs and never really penitrate. There was enough damage to cause her to bleed out slowly. I am glad we recovered the animal but regret she suffered that long. The next time you hit one and can't find it look longer and harder, strange things do happen.

[Ninja]

Another thing to figure is poor arrow flight.....

[huntingfool43]

"Another thing to figure is poor arrow flight....."

The whole thing don't make sence. Ben said the deer was quartering to him when he took the shot at 20 yards. I stuck my finger in the whole and it was elongated from back to front. The arrow feel out when he shot her. It looked more like a flesh wound when I looked at it but the broad head sliced along the ribs about 3 to 4 inches. There was 1 small mark on the lung that looked like just the tip penetrated past the rib but not enough to collapse the lung. I could see no penetration if he hit a leg bone or shoulder blade but just meat and rib was all that were hit. One thing I did wonder about was how sharp the broad head was. He was shooting a 100 grain Thunder Head for a broad head. They are a fixed blade so no mechanical failure. In 31 years of bow hunting it's the strangest thing I have seen.

[eddiejohn4]

That tip into the plural cavity is what is known as a tension pneumothorax. this will often cause death, but slowly by changing the pressure within the thoracic cavity and causing a cardiac tamponade. This is when the heart is pushed over to the side because of the leaking lung into the plueral space causes problems with the pumping action of the heart.(media stienum shift)

You cannot be sure but hvae seen this many times in humans and it makes sense. I usually see this with stab wounds or Gsws that just strike the edge of a lung.


Or not lol !

[kdogger]

Bad shot angle....I won't take quartering toward shots with a bow.....

[QuakrTrakr]

I've seen weird arrow flights before. I had one this year. I shot at one at 30 yards, it looked like a perfect broadside heart shot. The deer went 50 yards and died. When I found the deer, the arrow went in the front of the guts, and changed direction and sliced the arteries on top of the heart. Where the arrow exited was where I THOUGHT the hit was. :dizzy: