Well, the rest of the story is not so much, we found her this morning, but the yotes had been there before us. Not good, no pics, didn't take the camera with.
On the way along the blood trail in the cedar patch, I was walking off to the side and bro was slightly off to the other of the trail. Suddenly he kind of hops onelegged and stops. The arrow had come out of the deer and was laying on a gooseberry bush at an angle and hit him in the shin with the VPA 3 blade. Fortunately it centered the shin bone and only went in about a half inch. Bled profusely for a minute, I was near panic as he takes blood thinners. Once we got the long johns pulled up , it only bled one more drop, Thank God.
We found what was left of the deer and decided the yotes could finish what they started. Got him back to the house and cleaned the cut the best we could, very tender from hitting the bone. He is going to the urgent care to let them look at it. Not bleeding now but a little swelled where we left the cuff of his long johns on it for compression.
Some things relearned :
Use bright fletchings so you can tell where that arrow goes in dim light.
If you can't find the arrow after the shot,be damn careful walking the blood trail.
If you have lots of yotes, may possibly be better to push on instead of waiting til morning(hard call I know).
Go slow on the blood trail even if it's an easy one(like on snow)
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