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This has been troubling me all night and day and I have been replaying the shot over and over in my mind trying to figure out what could have gone wrong.
Heres what happened. I skipped out of work early yesterday because it was a nice day to be sitting in a tree stand and not here at work. I was in my stand at 4:15pm and no sooner had I gotten settled in when I had 3 does feeding in the woods about 100 yards from me. I sat and watched them for ½ hour working their way to me and at 40 yards one gave me a broad side shot so I took it. She few right in her tracks, but after a minute or so she got up on her front legs and started to crawl through the woods, so I started to load my ML with another round to dispatch her quickly. While I was loading she had traveled another 10 yards and fell again, only to lay there for a few seconds and started all over again traveling another 10 yards and falling. By the time she fell the third time I had finished packing the ball down in the barrel. As I raised the gun to take the second shot she got up and all four legs and took off running and I was never able to get the second shot off. I got out of my stand and started to track her only to find (1) little speck of blood where she had fallen the third time. The area where I had shot her had hair every where but no blood spray. (Which I thought I would have with a pass through shot.) Now I started to follow the tracks that I thought were hers only to find no more blood for 150-200 yards, so I called it quits and called a buddy to give me a hand. My buddy made it to my house and we were back in the woods by 6:00pm with lanterns and we started back at the spot where I had shot her. After tracking the 200 yards to an open field (where I had stopped before.) and not finding any blood we decide to do our searching in the day. On the way back to my house I can across a set of tracks that were traveling in a different direction that we where looking and after following them for a few yards we found a good amount of blood. The blood was bright red and she was dropping blood about the size of a silver dollar every 2-3 yards. We were able to track her back to the open field about 50yards from the first spot that we were looking at. WAIT a minute I think I know why I lost blood!!!!!!! I think she doubled back on me. I think I was on the right track to begin with and when she hit the field she went along the edge of the field those 50 yards and cut back into the woods and that is when she started to bleed. The blood trail that I picked up and followed to the field was heading in the wrong direction that she was traveling. I have to go and make a phone call to my buddy thats out there right now looking and ask him to check out my theory. Thanks for letting me talk it through.
Im still not sure what happened with the shot? Im not sure if I pulled the gun and hit high on her and thats why she was not using her back legs till she got up the third time and took off running. But with the bright red blood doesnt that usually mean a lung shot?
Heres what happened. I skipped out of work early yesterday because it was a nice day to be sitting in a tree stand and not here at work. I was in my stand at 4:15pm and no sooner had I gotten settled in when I had 3 does feeding in the woods about 100 yards from me. I sat and watched them for ½ hour working their way to me and at 40 yards one gave me a broad side shot so I took it. She few right in her tracks, but after a minute or so she got up on her front legs and started to crawl through the woods, so I started to load my ML with another round to dispatch her quickly. While I was loading she had traveled another 10 yards and fell again, only to lay there for a few seconds and started all over again traveling another 10 yards and falling. By the time she fell the third time I had finished packing the ball down in the barrel. As I raised the gun to take the second shot she got up and all four legs and took off running and I was never able to get the second shot off. I got out of my stand and started to track her only to find (1) little speck of blood where she had fallen the third time. The area where I had shot her had hair every where but no blood spray. (Which I thought I would have with a pass through shot.) Now I started to follow the tracks that I thought were hers only to find no more blood for 150-200 yards, so I called it quits and called a buddy to give me a hand. My buddy made it to my house and we were back in the woods by 6:00pm with lanterns and we started back at the spot where I had shot her. After tracking the 200 yards to an open field (where I had stopped before.) and not finding any blood we decide to do our searching in the day. On the way back to my house I can across a set of tracks that were traveling in a different direction that we where looking and after following them for a few yards we found a good amount of blood. The blood was bright red and she was dropping blood about the size of a silver dollar every 2-3 yards. We were able to track her back to the open field about 50yards from the first spot that we were looking at. WAIT a minute I think I know why I lost blood!!!!!!! I think she doubled back on me. I think I was on the right track to begin with and when she hit the field she went along the edge of the field those 50 yards and cut back into the woods and that is when she started to bleed. The blood trail that I picked up and followed to the field was heading in the wrong direction that she was traveling. I have to go and make a phone call to my buddy thats out there right now looking and ask him to check out my theory. Thanks for letting me talk it through.
Im still not sure what happened with the shot? Im not sure if I pulled the gun and hit high on her and thats why she was not using her back legs till she got up the third time and took off running. But with the bright red blood doesnt that usually mean a lung shot?
