"stringy blood trail"

[UntouchableNess]

I was unable to recover the buck that left this blood trail. It was a very different blood trail, with the blood along the trail being "strings" instead of drops. Any guesses on the hit that would cause it?

[BassBoysLLP]

Looks like a low brisket hit.

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[Ghost Hunter]

An blood clotting for sure.

[gjs4]

Had one last week my buddy hit with his ml -lung- liver - gut hit doe... went 300 yards...... simply chocked it up to the cold.

[PK_]

Looks clotty, did it lay down before leaving it?

Doe my dad killed this year 1 lung exit through paunch left 'stringy' clotted blood for about 50 yards after he bumped it off her first bed. Found her within 150 yards from there. Last 100 yards no blood.

[UntouchableNess]

I was walking to where I hoped to sit, jumped a buck and a doe bedded in a draw. I had to wait until the buck cleared the trees he was bedded in the valley. Pretty much a straight away, maybe a slight left side exposed shot. He showed no real response at the shot, continued with a high bouncing gait.

Reloaded the ML, walked up cautiously hoping I would peer over the edge of the bowl I was hoping to hunt and see him standing there. As I get there, I see a buck with head down laboring up the far hill of the bowl. Took a shot but it was through tons of brush. HAD to take it.

Backed out and when I went back in later, the blood stopped after 250 yards. Guessing muscle blood.

[BigHunt]

interesting

[UntouchableNess]

The picture is right inside the timber, 50 yards from where the deer was at the shot.

[U.P. bownut]

Maybe check with United Blood Trackers to see if they have a tracker in your area.

[Stanley]

I would say the cold caused the blood to string.

[GBTG]

Yep I say the cold too....

[JoeRE]

Yea I think the cold made it look stringy. From the sound of it you hit a back ham somewhere and not very hard or he would not have quit bleeding that fast. Ham hits bleed a lot and if they don't go down from blood loss pretty quick I think they have good odds to heal. I hit a buck in a ham in a similar situation once and kept pushing him for about 1.5 miles in pretty deep snow hoping to just run him down, but that did not work - I just wore me out lol. Pretty sure he recovered.

[headgear]

Yep likely the cold, I can't say I have seen that exact thing before but something similar. Just he blood thickening up and sticking together as its freezing. It might even be hanging off the deer a bit before it breaks off the falls to the ground.