|
Post by onebentarrow on Nov 7, 2020 11:36:36 GMT -5
I don't really like this kind of a post but I need help. I had one come in about 9:30 I was pretty high up in my climber it was only about 10 yards and I shot and it ran about 30 yards and then walked made some noise and I thought it had gone down. When I got down to find my arrow I saw a deer and I think it just walked off. It hadn't gone far at all if that was the deer. I had white hair so I'm thinking because of the angle maybe I only got one lung I don't know. I came home. I'm willing to wait quite a while but I'm also worried about it getting warm. Any advice? I my self would probably go and start tracking now. If she died shortly after the shot she is laying close and in this heat will spoil fast if you track now and kick her up you may still lose here but not from the heat. I do not want to lose a deer any way but if push comes to shove I would rather it be to a bad shot than not tracking soon enough and lose it to heat. If you kick here up you know she is not spoiling and can call a dog. If I wanted and found here close from the shot but spoiled I would be damning my self worse than if I made a bad shot and lost her. The deer you saw walk off. Because you did not state weather you saw more than one befor the shot is a guess on my part but from experience I have killed old does with young present and the young have hung around. The last doe I killed one deer walked back about 75 yards and stood about 5 yards from the downed doe i could see then just walked. In your excitement this could have been what happened with out you noticing. Or the young deer may have been present but not seen by you and still happened. Wishing you luck on the outcome and let us know what happens Onebentarrow
|
|
|
Post by onebentarrow on Nov 7, 2020 11:45:55 GMT -5
Bumped 2 deer walking in this morning b4 daylight. Thought my day was going to be a bust. Then a deer appeared at 8am. Thought it was a doe but turned out a button buck. Shot it at 18 yds. 50 yd track on a great blood trail. Going to my son for his freezer. Good for you. Those kind are the most tender best eating there are. You get less meat but boy are they good.
|
|
|
Post by treetop on Nov 7, 2020 11:49:11 GMT -5
I don't really like this kind of a post but I need help. I had one come in about 9:30 I was pretty high up in my climber it was only about 10 yards and I shot and it ran about 30 yards and then walked made some noise and I thought it had gone down. When I got down to find my arrow I saw a deer and I think it just walked off. It hadn't gone far at all if that was the deer. I had white hair so I'm thinking because of the angle maybe I only got one lung I don't know. I came home. I'm willing to wait quite a while but I'm also worried about it getting warm. Any advice? I’d wait maybe 10 to 20 minutes but not a whole lot longer it’s only going to get hotter today Like everyone said it be better to lose one because you got on it to early than find it 30 yards away spoiled Best of luck
|
|
|
Post by treetop on Nov 7, 2020 11:53:19 GMT -5
Speaking of getting hotter I do believe I’ll get down been a few hours since I’ve seen anything I’m the last guy out around here anyway
|
|
|
Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Nov 7, 2020 11:53:57 GMT -5
I saw two, possibly 3 bucks this morning. The wind then switched from SE to straight west. It's still blowing like that here at the house. I came inside, will go back out around 3 and hopefully the wind will have straightened back out.
|
|
|
Post by duff on Nov 7, 2020 12:05:04 GMT -5
How good do you feel about the shot? Are you reasonably certain it was good placement? Hopefully, you marked the place well where you last saw the animal, and remember the direction you saw the one walk off. I wouldn`t give it too awful long with the warmth that`s going to be here, it`ll spoil quick if not found and gutted. Very best of luck to you in recovering this deer. We all know, unfortunately, the sick feeling in our stomach of not recovering a deer we know we hit. I felt good about it but I do think it must have come out low because of the hair plus seeing the deer walk after I got down. This place is so thick besides where I was shooting there is no way to really see much Look for vultures. The doe carcus from the one I killed yesterday had 15 vultures on it within hours of dumping it. That was in heavy woods too. They were banging into trees coming and going.
|
|
|
Post by beermaker on Nov 7, 2020 12:09:48 GMT -5
Budd whats temp like up there? Funny how it’s November 7th and i am still wearing just pants, long sleeve shirt and rubber boots like i did on October 1 In my world, when it's 70+ and dry in November, you gotta be moving dirt. I started the day in shorts, ss tee shirt, and a sweatshirt. The heated cab of the skid loader was turned to AC and the hoodie was tossed at around 10:00.
|
|
|
Post by 10point on Nov 7, 2020 13:07:16 GMT -5
I found him didn't take long after we went back but coyotes had already got some of them.
|
|
|
Post by titanium700 on Nov 7, 2020 13:10:12 GMT -5
Don’t look like they got the good stuff.
Look at it this way. They started the gutting process for ya.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2020 13:11:42 GMT -5
I found him didn't take long after we went back but coyotes had already got some of them. Good deal buddy, so glad you found him. Too bad about the coyotes, but he`s salvageable, right? Great looking buck too by the way! Congratulations! How did the tracking go? Decent blood trail?
|
|
|
Post by bill9068 on Nov 7, 2020 14:15:37 GMT -5
I found him didn't take long after we went back but coyotes had already got some of them. Congratulations, great looking buck.
|
|
|
Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Nov 7, 2020 14:22:40 GMT -5
10point Congrats! I never would have expected the coyotes to get on him before dark.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2020 14:38:36 GMT -5
10point Congrats! I never would have expected the coyotes to get on him before dark. No kidding, roughly 2 hours and daylight. Wow!
|
|
|
Post by 10point on Nov 7, 2020 15:08:02 GMT -5
I found him didn't take long after we went back but coyotes had already got some of them. Good deal buddy, so glad you found him. Too bad about the coyotes, but he`s salvageable, right? Great looking buck too by the way! Congratulations! How did the tracking go? Decent blood trail? I wouldn't say there was a ton of blood but but there was enough. He didn't go real far but just very thick. I dragged my 21-year-old son out and he did all the dragging for me. He's quartered and in the fridge.
|
|
|
Post by parrothead on Nov 7, 2020 15:11:16 GMT -5
Well been in tree since 6ish a m. Come on evening to cool down. Glad i wasnt in the sun all day
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2020 15:25:16 GMT -5
Good deal buddy, so glad you found him. Too bad about the coyotes, but he`s salvageable, right? Great looking buck too by the way! Congratulations! How did the tracking go? Decent blood trail? I wouldn't say there was a ton of blood but but there was enough. He didn't go real far but just very thick. I dragged my 21-year-old son out and he did all the dragging for me. He's quartered and in the fridge. Well congratulations again. You had a heck of a day!
|
|
|
Post by drfleck on Nov 7, 2020 15:25:49 GMT -5
Nice deer 10point! Glad you found him
|
|
|
Post by huntnandplumbn on Nov 7, 2020 15:47:22 GMT -5
All set for another warm sit. Did see a nice one here yesterday. I did hear what I believe was a deer coughing behind me. Heard them talk about it before on the hunting public show but never something I had encountered. Lasted about 10-15 seconds consecutively. Anyone else ever had this happen/heard this?
|
|
|
Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Nov 7, 2020 15:48:31 GMT -5
Man, I am soaked with sweat. Literally saturated.
I checked the wind, seemed to be SE as predicted. I go out at 2:30, get my climber up a tree, and the wind starts blowing from the NW. I sat there for about 10 minutes with that wind before climbing down and packing the climber back to the house.
The wind seems pretty stiff from the W/NW now, but I'm afraid to go into my best westerly wind stand for fear the wind will switch back SE. So, I'm sitting where I sat last night.
On the plus side, what was a perfectly healthy bush last night has been destroyed in front of my stand.
|
|
|
Post by Woody Williams on Nov 7, 2020 15:59:28 GMT -5
On the food plot.
It's hot and the breeze doesn't know which way it wants to blow.
Hunters on the farm south of me texted they have some chasing going on
|
|