Matrix moves

[katman]

Had a first this season on deer reacting to the shot. Late season nervous deer broadside 16yds 185 fps arrow and I am in a pop-up blind. Held 4" below belly line and slightly back and let her go. Deer dropped in its tracks, Ahh spined her. Approached the deer laying down (dead) and arrow entered thru lower chest thru heart and into the spine. Shaft was almost parallel to ground with her laying there. Talk about duck and roll. She expired very quickly and no tracking, nice.  

Second was a deer broadside looking right, shot her and upon retrieval arrow entered left side chest and lodged in off side right shoulder, turned inside out quickly.

[Car54]

Yes...I use to say "quick as a cat", now I say, "quick as a doe", down here. Missed or spined a few over the yrs.
Congrats.

I have one I can add from just a few weeks ago. I shot an axis doe at 11yds, quartering away in her right side. Entrance hole was just a tad high, right above the crease. I watched the deer run off with everything but the fletching sticking out the left side, and knew it was a dead deer walking. Well, not quite!!!! I waited a while and began to track. The blood trail was not profuse, but very easy to follow. When I first laid eyes on her, she was still standing, and I had no weapon with me because I was sure after seeing the shot that she was gonna be dead!!! I got lucky,and she was all but done when I found her. I watched her lie down and expire. Upon inspection, what I thought I had seen was not even close to what actually happened! She twisted and turned so much that the exit hole on the left side was at least a foot behind the entrance hole. Remember, i shot the deer quartered away, so the exit should have been in or in front of the left shoulder. I wish I would have filmed this shot. The result appeared to be physically impossible. Anyone who saw that dead deer would have bet money that I shot it quartering too me, or that the entrance hole was the one on the left side!!!

Sometimes, good  luck is a great thing. Either one of those situations could have turned out much worse, with an unrecovered deer. They worked out, so all is good!!  

It is incredible how fast they can move! After watching a lot of shots in slow motion video, I sometimes wonder how we are ever successful. Almost all move before the arrow hits them. Soma a LOT more than others!

Bisch

[drewsbow]

I keep telling my son not to shoot at those wired up old does because they are not standing in the same spot when the arrow arrives . He doesn't seem to listen and keeps missing and on a couple of shots hit poorly and didn't find them .

[katman]

Drew, I've hunted with Bisch in Texas at Solano and the same here with wired deer, if we don't shoot then no venison, lol. Rank them right up there with Impala for wariness. Certainly agree teaching your son good ethics.  

[pdk25]

Pretty wires here too, but only around feeders.  Ready to bolt at any second.  At a travel corridor or food plot they are much more relaxed.

[pdk25]

If a deer has that gas pedal look, I usually pass on it.  They would probably be more relaxed if I wasn't constantly chasing hogs.

[goingoldskool]

I shot a small buck a few years back that was quartering  away.... he turned at the shot but I was confident that the shot was good. .. had a massive blood trail of 60 yards and when I got to him, the arrow had gone through both hams as if he was broadside!!! Talk about quick.... I had no idea that the arrow had hit him that far back... shot was at 15 yards.

Very, very nimble creatures!

God bless,

Rodd

[Trenton G.]

I shot at a big 6 this year real early in the morning and hit a limb, taking some hair off his back. Later that morning he came back through chasing a doe. He was still pretty nervous from the earlier shot. At 20 yards he stopped and I shot. The arrow looked perfect, but by the time it got there he had already dropped and turned so hard that my arrow passed between his antlers. The fact that he was able to get his head where his chest was so quickly blew my mind.

[drewsbow]

Gery : I can understand it in texas but in New York there is no reason to shoot at those ones . There will be another deer another day and chances are more than one . I try my best to instill the right ethics and help him make the right choices but I can't be with him on every hunt so all I can do is try.

[newhouse114]

I had one a couple of years ago where I swore I center punched the chest frontally from 11 yards. I caught the shot on a game cam and went through the video frame by frame. The buck dropped and twisted, the arrow went through its cheek! It must have cut the tongue also because there was massive blood for 50 yards and then it stopped; the buck showed up on the cam again two weeks later and was healthy and feeding easily.