Need help with this buck i shot guys!

[admiral04]

Not to happy to say this but a buck came in tonight about 5:45, I shot him at 15 yds and hit him in the right shoulder blade. my arrow only got 4-5"... the arrow stayed in him for ab 75 yds. i walked until i found my arrow and decided to back out. it has nice thick, bright red blood but only got 4-5". blades are all bent up and theres plenty of meat on it. couldn't tell if he was bleeding bad after the arrow fell because i didn't want to go further and push him and it was raining hard. What you guys think? am i gonna find him in the morning or did I just live up the bad archery hunter stereotype?

[Dewey]

What angle did they arrow go in? Was he broadside or quartering away? Doesn't sound like enough penetration so you will probably have a very hard time finding him. Sorry to hear that. Been there and done that. Happens to the best of us sooner or later. Hate to sound negative about finding him and hope I am wrong.

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[BigHunt]

i would go look for it right know if it was raining ....

[Mountain Man]

Doesn't sound like enough penetration so you will probably have a very hard time finding him. Sorry to hear that. Been there and done that. Happens to the best of us sooner or later. Hate to sound negative about finding him and hope I am wrong.

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I hit a buck like that once. Broadside shot. There was a loud crack as the arrow hit him. He took off and the arrow broke right after the shot as he went by a big tree. I was using a fixed blade head, only had a few inches of penetration. The part of the arrow I found had some meat on it and some blood that had some bubbles. I believe I got part of one lung. There was good blood for about 100-200 yards, then it slowly disappeared, and by 1/2 mile the blood was gone. I never found him.

I hope you find him but based on what you describe I'm not sure you will. Sounds like you got one lung. Those are tough tracking. He could eventually die but there's a chance he could recover too.

[Dewey]

If he was quartering away there is a good chance he will survive but broadside you may have hit one lung like Mountain Man said and he may eventually die. Years ago I hit one in the shoulder like you described and never found him. The next weekend I saw him again and he was chasing a doe looking no worse for the wear. Deer are tough animals and it is amazing what they can recover from.

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[dan]

With what you described I would say best case ( or worse, depending on how you look at it ) you got one lung... If it were me, I would not of stopped tracking him.... I have recovered several one lung hit bucks, but never recovered one that I gave time.
One lung hits make it hard for the deer to breath and if they run or exert themselves they are short of breath and choking on blood. Also, stressing the deer by pushing him will make him bleed more by elevating his heart rate and getting him to create adrenalin which acording to my medical studys is a natural blood thinner which will also increase bleeding. Every one lunged buck I recovered I had to finish off with an arrow or knife. Most of the time one lungers are not recoverd, but sometimes you get lucky.
The bucks usually eventually die but that could take a few days... I shot a buck a few years ago that had a wound and was missing one lung obviously from the year befores archery season, so they can sometimes live... But that buck grew 1 inch stubs for antlers because of the stress of the one lung...

[Dor]

Sounds like a shoulder blade hit to me...though you usually don't get 5 inches. I'd say you have low odds at best, but you never know. Good luck!

[Zap]

Good luck with it.

[Dabowhunter]

What kind of broadhead were you using? If your arrow came out intact and you missed the lung he will survive. I killed a buck two years ago that had a broken arrow still in his shoulder. Arrow in shoulder would not allow wound to heal, deer dies from sepsisl.

[Schultzy]

Sounds like a shoulder blade hit to me...though you usually don't get 5 inches. I'd say you have low odds at best, but you never know. Good luck!

Agree.

[admiral04]

thanks for the help everyone, i wish i would have kept going now. i backed out trying to do the right thing and to answer everyone he was just barely quartering away and yes it did make a loud crack when it hit. i was using a rage mechanical which stuck in him for 75 yards and then the whole arrow pulled back out the rage was twisted up pretty bad and definately had done some digging when he ran.. he ran along the stream i was hunting so i'm praying hes laying in the stream when i go in the morning. makes me sick the thought of wounding a deer. and so everyone knows he was just an average 8pt. thanks for the help and i'll keep you all posted

[Zap]

Good luck in the AM.

[Dewey]

Good luck. Hope you find him.

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[BigHunt]

Good luck. Hope you find him.

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[muddy]

Shoulder blade. I think that the blood on the arrow that indicates penetration is likely blood that ran out and coated the arrow making it seem like the arrow went in. My bet is that buck will be just fine.

I have been wrong before so good luck.

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