Ever had a kill that yielded no blood??(Now with pics)

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Stuck my first buck tonight and was a pretty good 8. Quartering away and dropped and spun as the arrow got there. I saw the arrow sticking out but couldn't tell if ribs or back leg. Didn't find a drop of blood in a few minutes of looking so I backed out. Going back in morning so send some good vibes my way.

***Shot was back but the angle of the deer allowed the arrow to travel into the vitals. Found him 60 yards away with a lot of red blood coming out of his mouth. Not one external drop of blood.****
Will post a pic when I figure out how.
 
Re: Ever had a kill that yielded no blood??

I've shot them with no exit that didn't leave a blood trail. Also if you hit right in the crease of the leg/shoulder muscle it will often prevent the hole from bleeding. But it sounds like you could have hit your deer anywhere. Good luck


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Re: Ever had a kill that yielded no blood??

Dropped a buck once and it took me 5 minutes to find a bullet hole. There was no blood. I thought for a minute he just passed out and would wake up any second. I finally picked him up by the back legs and shook him and one little drop of blood trickled from his front shoulder. I shot him base of the neck and the bullet traveled lengthwise and never exited. He died before he could bleed any. The entry wound was invisible until that one drop of blood. I've never seen anything like that since.
 
Re: Ever had a kill that yielded no blood??

Shot one last year about 10 yards from my tree so really steep shot angle, plowed through upper shoulder blade on way in and it never exited. I thought I saw him tumble at 100 yards. I went to area I shot and looked for blood. All I found was a little hair. Followed the exact path he went and found him where I thought he tumbled. Chest cavity was filled with blood but not much came out. I did end up finding a few spots where some came out from his mouth but that was it.
 
Re: Ever had a kill that yielded no blood??

Yup, a bunch of times, even after getting them to the gambrel, there is just a small trickle. If the shot hadn't done the job quickly they would have been almost unretrievable.
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Re: Ever had a kill that yielded no blood??(update deer foun

Always used to with Powerbelts.
 
Re: Ever had a kill that yielded no blood??(update deer foun

yes sometimes archery shots can produce sparse blood trials. like Omega said, power belts are notorious for no blood.
 
Re: Ever had a kill that yielded no blood??(update deer foun

Bushape":2zcsail5 said:
Stuck my first buck tonight and was a pretty good 8. Quartering away and dropped and spun as the arrow got there. I saw the arrow sticking out but couldn't tell if ribs or back leg. Didn't find a drop of blood in a few minutes of looking so I backed out. Going back in morning so send some good vibes my way.

***Shot was back but the angle of the deer allowed the arrow to travel into the vitals. Found him 60 yards away with a lot of red blood coming out of his mouth. Not one external drop of blood.****
Will post a pic when I figure out how.
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Good news, glad you recovered him.
 
Re: Ever had a kill that yielded no blood??(update deer foun

Snake":2mecwo2h said:
Congrats and glad you found him , waiting on the pictures .
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Sorry. Struggling to figure it out. Omega is trying to help me out in another thread. Once my pic uploads I have 3 vertical dots in the top right corner with "copy permalink" the only option that sounds viable. Click on the "share" font at the bottom of the pic and my options are to share via text, facebook, etc.
 
Re: Ever had a kill that yielded no blood??(update deer foun

Congratulations on finding the deer!

I had one in particular that left no blood trail a few years ago. It was a heavy buck (190lbs live) that came trotting by in front of me about 70 yards out and I swung and shot and knew the sight picture looked good when I pulled the trigger. But it took a good while to find the 2 or 3 tiny drops of blood and a few hairs at the point of impact and then that was it. I was using a 7.62x39 with a 123 grain soft point so penetration wasn't great and I got no exit hole. I finally sat back down and kept hunting after looking and finding nothing. Sat there probably 2 more hours replaying the shot in my head 2nd guessing myself. Decided to give it one more try on the way to the house and walked about 50 more yards and there he lay dead as a rock. There was just the tiny hole behind the shoulder with hardly any blood at all leaking out. That's the main reason I've come up with a new load for that rifle using 150 grain bullets this year so I can hopefully get exit holes! :)
 
Re: Ever had a kill that yielded no blood??(update deer foun

Glad you found him. I have had crappy blood trails on some of my ML kills. I shoot a 240 grain xtp. The only good thing is the one's with crappy blood trails have all died within 60-80 yards so I am able to go towards where I heard the crash.
 
Re: Ever had a kill that yielded no blood??(update deer foun

Had one last year with the muzzleloader. Hit her perfect broadside. She jumped and ran 40 yards into some heavy CRP. There wasn't a drop of blood. I was starting to doubt the shot (even though it was under 60 yards). Found her about 20 seconds before I was ready to give up by grid searching the CRP. Not a drop of blood anywhere.

I think it was mostly answered prayer.
 
Re: Ever had a kill that yielded no blood??(update deer foun

Sure have , well not much blood and it actually quit after a double lung @ 35 yards with a 7mm mag . Shot a tad high out of a tree stand and the lining around the intestines plugged the exit hole on a pretty good ten point . Only found him by taking sweeps and not giving up .
 
Re: Ever had a kill that yielded no blood??(update deer foun

Not that uncommon as Ive shot them with both gun and bow with complete pass thrus and they never bleed a drop externally. Lots of things can happen with lots of things to plug the holes, especially when shots are in certain areas of the anatomy.
 
Re: Ever had a kill that yielded no blood??(update deer foun

Pic IN the Casa":1j0dt1eg said:
Always used to with Powerbelts.
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Same here. I shot several deer with Powerbelts with not a drop of blood found. Fortunately, I believe all of them were found within 75 yards or so. Tons of blood where they fell, but that defeats the purpose of using tracking as a tool
 
Re: Ever had a kill that yielded no blood??(update deer foun

The buck I shot Saturday basically did not bleed a drop, and then only a few drops where he died. I watched him go down so no big deal. It entered about 5 inch behind the shoulder (his left side). It exited in the shoulder. Really was not quartered that much so guessing the rib turned the path of the arrow.
 
Nice buck. I shot the one in my avatar high and in the back of the rib cage with no exit. He was extremely quartered away, and there was no blood. Luckily I saw the lighted nock glowing through the woods, and the buck was still attached to it.
 
Shot one a few years ago with a 240xtp bullet, pass thru. 3 of us could not find blood until we found the deer. A little bit right where he expired.
 
Shot a buck a few years ago with my ml using sst's. At the shot, the deer dropped. Laid there for about 45 secs then got up staggering down through woods. Deer only went about 60 yards but it took us an hour to find it. Zero blood. Shot was dead center of shoulder. The first time we saw any blood at all was when we strapped it to the 4 wheeler.
 
I've seen it several times myself. I got into the habit of making myself track them, even if I saw them go down and knew right where they were laying. Several times, I have found very sparse blood trails or no blood, come from deer that didn't go 100 yards. On the flip side, I have saw a couple that bled so much it looked like an over exaggerated blood scene from a horror movie and never recover the deer.
 
Shot a doe with the bow from 20 ft up and the arrow entered through the right lung and decimated the heart. Left lung was full of blood. The Arrow bounced off the left shoulder it appeared and exited the neck area. Therefore no low exit wound in the chest cavity. No sign of blood at the site of impact. No trail, nada. Walk down the hill, there she laid with blood leaking out the neck area. No sign up broke that point, made for a fun and worrisome track.
 

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