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Re: Tracking a deer after shot
[Re: desertdog]
#436876
10/31/12 12:32 AM
10/31/12 12:32 AM
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Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 8,456 Harpersville, AL
tfd1224
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 8,456
Harpersville, AL
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It doesn't really matter what temp it is. Coyotes in Alabama can usually eat a deer overnight anyways.
Yeah c’mon. Daniel White
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Re: Tracking a deer after shot
[Re: desertdog]
#436877
10/31/12 12:55 AM
10/31/12 12:55 AM
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Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 2,921 Huntsville
buckbrush
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 2,921
Huntsville
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20 Minutes with a good shot. If you can't make a good shot you shouldn't be taking it. Everybody messes up every so often. Gut shot I would wait a couple hours.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
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Re: Tracking a deer after shot
[Re: desertdog]
#436899
10/31/12 06:49 AM
10/31/12 06:49 AM
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Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 8,776 bessemer, al
hunterturf
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 8,776
bessemer, al
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What broadhead do u shoot??
Give me bout 15 more minutes, I was dreamin about beavers.......... Si Robertson
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Re: Tracking a deer after shot
[Re: desertdog]
#436920
10/31/12 07:13 AM
10/31/12 07:13 AM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 11,348 Prattville AL
ElkHunter
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 11,348
Prattville AL
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When I look back at the deer I have lost, the vast majority of the time it was shots that I should not have taken. Practice Practice and Practice some more. Know your limits and then have the ability to stick to them. I rarely shoot at a deer over 25 yards. In fact, I don't think I have shot at one over 25 in the past few years. Maybe just a yard or two over but not much at all. Even with that said, I still lost one last year to Lake Martin. Not much you can do about a deer that decides to go swimming.
Review your shots and shot situations. Learn from your mistakes. Try to evaluate if it is you or your equipment. Be honest on that one. It is rare that it is really the equipments fault. You owe it to the animals to do your very best to make it quick and clean.
I have no idea if you are using a rangefinder or not, if not, work save and skimp to get one. It will make a big difference.
Alabama Hog Control, Inc. www.alabamahogcontrol.comBarry Estes The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
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Re: Tracking a deer after shot
[Re: ElkHunter]
#436926
10/31/12 07:18 AM
10/31/12 07:18 AM
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Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 1,507 Gadsden
desertdog
OP
8 point
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OP
8 point
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 1,507
Gadsden
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When I look back at the deer I have lost, the vast majority of the time it was shots that I should not have taken. Practice Practice and Practice some more. Know your limits and then have the ability to stick to them. I rarely shoot at a deer over 25 yards. In fact, I don't think I have shot at one over 25 in the past few years. Maybe just a yard or two over but not much at all. Even with that said, I still lost one last year to Lake Martin. Not much you can do about a deer that decides to go swimming.
Review your shots and shot situations. Learn from your mistakes. Try to evaluate if it is you or your equipment. Be honest on that one. It is rare that it is really the equipments fault. You owe it to the animals to do your very best to make it quick and clean.
I have no idea if you are using a rangefinder or not, if not, work save and skimp to get one. It will make a big difference.
Thanks Elkhunter I agree I have to much respect for the animal to not try and make a clean kill.
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Re: Tracking a deer after shot
[Re: desertdog]
#436940
10/31/12 07:38 AM
10/31/12 07:38 AM
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Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 3,290 Near the Trussell
BPS
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 3,290
Near the Trussell
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rangefinder by far the best tool i ever invested in for bow hunting.
If your decoy doesnt have holes in it, your not letting him get close enough... J.H.
"Life lessons are almost never found where you think they should be, sometimes they're in the middle of a small, muddy creek in the woods with steep banks"... DeadorAlive
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Re: Tracking a deer after shot
[Re: ElkHunter]
#437085
10/31/12 09:47 AM
10/31/12 09:47 AM
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Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 16,156 Alabaster
Bowhunter84
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 16,156
Alabaster
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When I look back at the deer I have lost, the vast majority of the time it was shots that I should not have taken. Practice Practice and Practice some more. Know your limits and then have the ability to stick to them. I rarely shoot at a deer over 25 yards. In fact, I don't think I have shot at one over 25 in the past few years. Maybe just a yard or two over but not much at all. Even with that said, I still lost one last year to Lake Martin. Not much you can do about a deer that decides to go swimming.
Review your shots and shot situations. Learn from your mistakes. Try to evaluate if it is you or your equipment. Be honest on that one. It is rare that it is really the equipments fault. You owe it to the animals to do your very best to make it quick and clean.
I have no idea if you are using a rangefinder or not, if not, work save and skimp to get one. It will make a big difference.
very well said
"Just remember a gobbler has to win every time, you only have to win once" BC
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Re: Tracking a deer after shot
[Re: desertdog]
#437159
10/31/12 10:59 AM
10/31/12 10:59 AM
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Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 37 Silverhill, Alabama
country boy06
spike
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spike
Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 37
Silverhill, Alabama
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What would the temp have to be to let a deer lay over night if you think you made a marganial shot?I think I am loosing to many deer by pushing them when I need to back out. Think of like a frig if it 44 and lower degrees it is good to let lay meat will be find if it hotter it depends on how long before it died but always if made marganial shot let lay long as possible before tracking get down check for arrow and blood and see if it is good blood or bad blood meaning if you see bubbles in blood or not. bubbles are good that means lung any thing else would let lay no blood green on arrow gut shot come back next day and good luck. that is just my 2 cents and way i look at it.
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