Worst birthday ever!

[Redhunter1012]

To start the day off, my wife tells me that we have to pay $800 bucks out of our pocket for our first years insurance on our house we're buying. So I go to work in the morning and remember I have to get tags for my truck. I figure that's fine I get paid on Wednesdays. At around Eleven O'clock our secretery informs me we can't get paid because of lack of funding in the bank account and it might be Friday before we get paid. So I figure I'll go home and do some bowhunting. I decided to hunt a stand with some partially cut corn. After getting in my stand I ranged everything and settled in. Just to describe the area. My back is facing a super thick thicket and I'm overlooking a corn field. The first ten rows are standing, then 20 cut, then the rest is still standing. Everytime we hunt there the deer come from our left or right then work in front of us. So naturally at last light I hear something coming from directly behind me. It was a big doe moving to my right. With me being right handed I had to jimmy aroung to get in position. By the time I get in position it's almost too late. I stop her with my mouth and settle the pin behind the shoulder. As I shoot she steps forward I hear the arrow "smack" loudly. I watched her run approximately a hundred yards along the thicket and first row of corn. She stopped and walked into the thicket I thought. I quickly marked the last spot in my head and climbed out to find some sign. I found my aroow sticking in the ground covered in blood. I called Dad and told him what had happened. He told to go to the truck to get my good flashlight and he would meet me out there. The only legal route to my truck would take me in the same direction of the deer. So walked around that area very quietly atleast a hundred yards from where I last saw the deer. As I near the trail out I jumped a deer and it ran into the standing corn. At first I didn't think it was the same deer. After we started from the arrow I was worried because I didn't have hardly any blood. Every 10-12 ft. we would find small spots but nothing big. The blood is dark red. There is no paunchy smell or matter on the arrow. When we trailed it where I last saw it, the deer continued past my last visual and through the first 10 standing rows. The blood was a little high on a few stalks and I realized the deer I spooked was my deer. We couldn't find where the deer entered the the standing corn so we marked the last spot and got out. Can't track this morning cause I have stupid class at the bank then work half a day. I track after work. I think I'll take my dog with me and keep my fingers crossed.

[Thundergut]

Best of luck on the recovery, Red. Sounds like a loin hit to me. Hopefully I am wrong and the dark blood you found was liver blood.

[Andy Gehle]

I always thought dark red meant a liver shot. You'll find her.

If you have to walk that close on your way out, you may be better off waiting it out in the tree next time.....at least an hour.

[Thunderflight]

How cold is it? Sounds like she's done to me.

[Thunderflight]

BTW,

Had a similar B-day a few years back. I hit a doe high and watched her run off. A few minutes later I missed a deer at ten yards. An hour later I started looking for my deer. The blood train was awesome and then all the sudden stopped. I got a friend with a dog and we tracked her for another 300 yards before we lost the trail.

[trapperack]

any creeks or ditches with water in them nearby? if so, and you loose the blood, might want to walk the waters edge. i liver shot a buck years ago that i found the next day within 200 yards of where i shot him. he had circled almost a quarter of a mile before he found the creek and layed down. any farm ponds around???

[brian]

Good luck with the deer, sounds like a liver-shot, you should find it. PM me if you want me to check that home insurance for ya, maybe I can help.

[Buckmaster]

Sounds like a muscle hit to me. I would be surprised if you find it but I wish you luck and my thoughts are with you.

[XX78]

Gulp Happy birthday? Gulp

[It's Not A Passion..]

I'm thinking liver shot. I say you'll probably find her. Good luck.

[DLC]

A loud "smack" and the color blood you describe.... I'd guess muscle hit, but I wasn't there to see the shot, how she ran away, or the blood trail. Best of luck!!

[Hot Dog]

it could be woarse. you could be ded

[Jimmy]

Originally posted by Hot Dog
it could be woarse. you could be ded

Worse would be dead and no deer.

Good luck finding her, Red!!

[bowhunter1023]

I did the same thing last year to a doe at 2 yards. I shot straight down through her, knocked her straight to the ground, and she rolled over and broke my arrow. She ran 100 yrds. and started walking. That was the last I saw of her.

I'm with DLC about the loud "smack". Mine sounded like and open hand smack.

[Redhunter1012]

Looked for another 2 hours after work yesterday with no luck. We found no more sign than already described. I hope she makes it. I'm assuming she disappeared in the cornfield. We looked down every row for about 70-75 yards but couldn't distinguish her tracks from the other hundred. Couldn't find any blood smears on the stalks where she may have went and we scoured the thicket with no luck. I'm hoping it was a muscle hit and I think it may have been. With the heat we've had I don't think I'd want to find her now anyways. Don't get me wrong, I feel horrible about the whole deal, but if she's dead she's coyote bait now. On the other hand we found some really good deals on insurance for our house.(Not By Geico) Thanks for the offer brian. So I can definately send the rest of my money to the taxidermist for my mount. My cousin and best frien have both connected on wallhangers in the past week from stands I basically set up for them. On a good note, my friend and his father in law found the deer the father in law hit the same night I hit my doe. A little 4 point but his first deer with a bow and first deer in 10 years. He fell from a stand 9 years ago and hasn't bowhunted since then until we talked him into it this summer.

[It's Not A Passion..]

Ok, I retract my previous statement. Must have been a muscle hit.