"placement really is far more important than the size of the gun."
Tell my wife that all of the time.
Originally Posted By: Cousneddy
Dang man, that's tough right there. I hope they can get this deer killed soon.
This one might actually bleed out enough to get anemic eventually. It looked like he was having a hard time clotting up. The spot of blood I was talking about in the story caught me off guard when we ran across it. It wasn’t just a single bed with blood….it was an area the size of my living room that was painted in blood. It was on the ground, on the bushes, on the trees….everywhere…..it looked like someone took a gallon jug of blood in each hand and just went to slinging it. It didn’t look so much like the deer was bedded…it looked more like he was just walking around in a little area, stopping and bleeding puddles while slinging his head around...all night long until we ran him off from that spot this morning. You could even see a distinct pattern on the ground in one spot that looked like he was just swaying his head around ….back and forth, back and forth sorta like a figure “8”.
The only time he even let the dogs get close to him was right before we called it off. I could hear him bolt across a hardwood bottom out ahead of us just as the dogs were about to catch up to him. I kind of wish the hunter would let us get back on this one again in the morning and see if he isn’t really weak by then. It’s just a matter of time with this one.
