Best buddy shot a giant...not the best shot...anyone know of anyone with a dog that can come out tonight? Off Pike road in Montgomery

I'm not far from you but it'll be tomorrow morning before I come out. If it's a bad shot then you probably need to give it time anyways. Where did the arrow hit?....or is this a muzzleloader?

He's in a pickle and has to be back for dental school classes in the am...said he shot it, hit a lil back and high (deer ducked on him)...ran into a tree and snapped 12 in of arrow off. He said found blood and a piece of fat on the broke part...He's killed big bucks and said this joker was a beast...at least a 9

Do him a favor and go for him in the morning and find his deer. Let him go to school and worry about it till you send him some pictures.

I understand if he has things to do tomorrow but if it’s a bad shot then the deer still needs time to bed up and die. If I came out right now we’d likely track a few hundred yards and jump him. See if he can arrange for someone to meet me there in the morning.

Wait til morning
Big mistake to push him now.

Yeah I told him to back out so he hasn't pushed the deer...said he watched him run 100 yards through thick grass...I'll try to swing coming in the am early, lemme talk with him first..what type of shot does it sound like CNC?

It’s hard to say exactly what kind of shot we're dealing with if the arrow hit as the deer was wheeling around. I just tracked one like that a few days ago and the exit was way back in the guts nearly under his back leg. Back and high is not a great hit but if he got enough penetration to get down into his guts then he’ll bed up and eventually die.

Which end of the arrow was snapped off? Fletching end or broadhead (partial pass thru)? Is the deer still totting 16-18" of arrow inside of him? How high was he (shot angle)? Was the deer perfectly broadside, quartered to or quartered away? If he hit back and he was quartered away, he probably angled up into the good stuff. Broadside, back is back and generally where you hit. Quartered to and hitting back means it angles way back. Too many variables and not enough info to determine type of shot IMO.

This will be a fun follow.

You're exactly right....it's hard to say for sure. It’s one of the reasons I like to play things conservatively. Our best odds of retrieving a deer like this is giving him time. I’m guessing that the piece of fat he found on the broke piece of arrow is from the backstrap area….meaning a really high entry hole.

Gobble4me.....Can you find out a few more details about the hit? Was the deer broadside or angled?

Good luck. CNC has a good dog.

THIS^^^^^^ If hes dead, he will still be there. If hes not right now, hopefully he will expire by the time CNC gets there.

Pushing him and losing him would be the STUPIDEST idea.

Let him go to school and go recover it for him.

For sure.

Fun to watch work

Or hopefully for the shooter, he got really good penetration and it is from the inner loin area and just pulled out on the splintered/fractured end of the arrow when he broke it off. If that's the case, deer will be dead in the morning and will be an easy find if he's not pushed tonight.

Yotes.

Well, I just got a text...apparently the hunter has already called someone else to track it in the morning. Bummer......

Kinda sounds like a cluster down on Pike Rd. Maybe he will get lucky and find him, Harold. Time will tell.

SOrry for the wait, in a meeting and logged in on the phone...buddy called back with news that his cousin called him a dog and got permission to track out on the neighboring property...I’m meeting the tracker at 6 am (hard for me to get away with med school but thankfully don’t have a test in am) I’ll find some more details on shot later tonight and will keep y’all updated...would definitely be using cnc if he hadn’t of already found someone