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I screwed up. First bow deer
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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5745316" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>I feel for you. It's never easy wounding an animal. </p><p></p><p>It sounds and looks like you hit neck. The tiny sporadic bubbles in rich red blood are indicative of muscle hit. Lung blood would be watered down or pink hued with much more bubble than shown. My guess is the deer will not die. But you should do your due diligence and search to be certain, as you've planned. </p><p></p><p>Please accept my words not as criticism but as an old bow hunter advising a new bow hunter because I've already made these mistakes. There's no reason to ever aim for the "vital-V" on a whitetail. The "V" shape opening that is made by the shoulder & leg joint will close as soon as the deer is startled by the sound of the shot, thereby covering that window to the heart with heavy bone. Soon as the shoulders drop that window is closed. The safer option with much more margin of error is aiming mid cage. A deer's rib cage extends half way back its body and inside it is lungs & liver that have no heavy bone protection. Still just as lethal as "vital-V" but no threat of hard bone and it doesn't drop out of the way when a deer loads up to run. Aim behind the shoulder crease about mid body height. Huge kill zone that's hard to miss. The "vital-V" on the other hand is hard to hit, impossible if it's closed. Heaven forbid you hit too far back and hit gut, it's still a dead deer and easy recovery IF you don't pursue too soon. But if you hit too far forward the deer likely won't die at all. It'll just suffer for awhile as it heals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5745316, member: 20583"] I feel for you. It's never easy wounding an animal. It sounds and looks like you hit neck. The tiny sporadic bubbles in rich red blood are indicative of muscle hit. Lung blood would be watered down or pink hued with much more bubble than shown. My guess is the deer will not die. But you should do your due diligence and search to be certain, as you've planned. Please accept my words not as criticism but as an old bow hunter advising a new bow hunter because I've already made these mistakes. There's no reason to ever aim for the "vital-V" on a whitetail. The "V" shape opening that is made by the shoulder & leg joint will close as soon as the deer is startled by the sound of the shot, thereby covering that window to the heart with heavy bone. Soon as the shoulders drop that window is closed. The safer option with much more margin of error is aiming mid cage. A deer's rib cage extends half way back its body and inside it is lungs & liver that have no heavy bone protection. Still just as lethal as "vital-V" but no threat of hard bone and it doesn't drop out of the way when a deer loads up to run. Aim behind the shoulder crease about mid body height. Huge kill zone that's hard to miss. The "vital-V" on the other hand is hard to hit, impossible if it's closed. Heaven forbid you hit too far back and hit gut, it's still a dead deer and easy recovery IF you don't pursue too soon. But if you hit too far forward the deer likely won't die at all. It'll just suffer for awhile as it heals. [/QUOTE]
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