She ducked my arrow...again!

I just watched that video 10 times and can't see that arrow going over that doe. It almost looks to me like she was wheeling to the left and the arrow skimmed down her side. Anybody else see this?

Keep after them and it will happen.

Bisch

[Gordon martiniuk]

I try and not stop the deer unless there going fast, on a deer that looks like it may drop , shoot at the bottom of them , I have aimed below them and had them drop into the kill zone,, keep trying it will happen ,,

[Tsalt]

Originally posted by Bisch:
I just watched that video 10 times and can't see that arrow going over that doe. It almost looks to me like she was wheeling to the left and the arrow skimmed down her side. Anybody else see this?

Keep after them and it will happen.

Bisch

Bisch,  it does look like that at full speed, but if you can change the settings on your YouTube player to HD and then move it forward frame by frame, You can see my white fetching headed right for her vitals.  At the last mili-second she drops and whirls left, the arrow skims her back above her shoulder.

[arrowlauncherdj]

Hey I shot a doe this weekend.  Was perfectly broadside, head up but eating and didnt seem alarmed... just chewing   .  When I let the arrow fly, she wheeled toward me and my bout to be well placed arrow headed right for the crease... quickly became a gut shot.

I have never had one wheel toward the shot before, they always duck and turn away in my past experiences.  Those shots usually end up heart shots, possibly with no exit wound due to the more forward placement if they wheel like that, but still I usually watch them drop.

Dave

[Tsalt]

Dave that is crazy that she turned towards you!  They are amazingly quick creatures!

[PaPa Ron]

I think we all have been frustrated by those quick critters a time or two.

[arrowlauncherdj]

Tell me about it.  I have only seen that happen one other time on a hunting video that I bought back in my wheels days... it was an elk shot by one of the Primos dudes... thought it was crazy as heck back then too, and still amazes me that an animal that big could move so fast.  Deer, wow... but elk, holy cow.

Dave