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I shot a small 5 point yesterday morning around 7 with my bow. I'd been trying to kill another deer with my bow off and on for the last 5 or so weeks and he made the mistake of being the first one in range yesterday. I knew the shot looked a bit back when I shot him. I watched him run 85 yards or so then disappear out of sight. I thought I heard him crash a few seconds later. I even thought I heard him cough once after crashing, so I figured I must have gotten part of at least one lung. Turns out that wasn't the case. I gave him an hour and picked up the blood trail. He bled great for 120 yards or so then bedded down. I couldn't find a single speck of blood past the first bed. Knowing my chances of finding him without help was like finding a needle in a haystack, I backed out and called Mr Rickey Scott. We met around 6 p.m. last night and I got the pleasure of watching his blood hound Rocky sort out the track. It was incredible watching the dog finally figure out which way the buck went after getting out of the bed. Mr Rickey told me he'd struggle with figuring out where the deer crossed the wheat field because apparently "slick" fields don't hold scent well at all. He says it's even worse on windy days. It took Rocky a good 25-30 minutes to finally work his way across the field and sort it out, but once he did the rest was fairly simple. I hated that I made a marginal shot, and hated to have to spend money to find a small buck, but watching that dog find the deer was worth every penny.
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Glad you found him, congratulations. Was going to ask about whether buzzards were on him with seeing his eye, but see you already mentioned that.
 
bowhunterfanatic said:
I shot a small 5 point yesterday morning around 7 with my bow. I'd been trying to kill another deer with my bow off and on for the last 5 or so weeks and he made the mistake of being the first one in range yesterday. I knew the shot looked a bit back when I shot him. I watched him run 85 yards or so then disappear out of sight. I thought I heard him crash a few seconds later. I even thought I heard him cough once after crashing, so I figured I must have gotten part of at least one lung. Turns out that wasn't the case. I gave him an hour and picked up the blood trail. He bled great for 120 yards or so then bedded down. I couldn't find a single speck of blood past the first bed. Knowing my chances of finding him without help was like finding a needle in a haystack, I backed out and called Mr Rickey Scott. We met around 6 p.m. last night and I got the pleasure of watching his blood hound Rocky sort out the track. It was incredible watching the dog finally figure out which way the buck went after getting out of the bed. Mr Rickey told me he'd struggle with figuring out where the deer crossed the wheat field because apparently "slick" fields don't hold scent well at all. He says it's even worse on windy days. It took Rocky a good 25-30 minutes to finally work his way across the field and sort it out, but once he did the rest was fairly simple. I hated that I made a marginal shot, and hated to have to spend money to find a small buck, but watching that dog find the deer was worth every penny.
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Congratulations, some would have gave up it not being a big one but kudos to you sticking with it . Great story . I watched a video of a dog thay looked like a weiner dog trailing a shot buck and it found it .
 
Bone Collector said:
Looks like the buzzards did too and got some eyeballs for dinner.
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Crazy how quick the buzzards can find them. I shot a doe about 10 years ago and blood was spotty. It was a slow track and I found it probably an hour or so after I had shot it. I was following blood and would've walked up on it eventually but I got about 75 yards from it and heard and seen 2 buzzards fly up. Sure enough they were already on it and had taken one if its eyeballs out already.

Last Thursday my cousin and I hunted together and I shot a doe right after daylight. 5 mins later the same group come back out and he shot one. We got down almost immediately because I didn't want to kill another one and as we got down buzzards were already flying low and circling over his. I know they would've been on it within 20-30 mins.
 

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