Let’s start off with a couple corrections from the call. The arrow was actually not broken and was still fully intact. It was just the broadhead that was broken. The arrow fell out of the deer at around 80 yards. One more correction to the story is that they had actually only tracked it around 125-150 yards.
It took us a minute to work around the search area. The hunter was not able to locate his last blood spot and we kinda had to go about it blindly. We eventually got looped around in though and Otis took the trail. At about 450 yards he picked his nose off the ground and started bobbing it in the air. He picked up speed out ahead of us and had just made it out of site good when I heard him cut loose barking. I had to immediately tone him off of it because we were within about 150 yards of a very busy road. I was already antsy about working off lead where we were tracking.
That was about the extent of it. I wish we would have been out in a more rural area where I could have more freely give him an opportunity to bay the deer but we just couldn’t do it on this tract of land. We followed the trail for another little piece just to make sure the deer wasn’t crippled enough we could sneak up on it but no luck. I think the hunter actually buried the Rage expandable up in the back of the deer’s front side shoulder. He said it was quartering away and he thought he had hit it in the armpit. I think it caught bone though. The funny thing about…or not so funny I guess….is that he had just been talked into switching from his Muzzy fixed blades to these new expandables. This was the first deer he had shot with them. I think he’s throwing the rest of them away.
