10/26/2026
Pretty crazy the things that can happen during archery season!
This was a buck we tracked yesterday, which had to be bayed and dispatched.
The first picture is the entrance. He was quartered to, and did not get a pass through at the shot, but the hunter had recovered the arrow on his initial track an hour post shot. They bumped the deer at about 75 yards and found thick frothy blood. Text book lung blood. They gave him another two hours and tracked blood for an additional 225-ish yards and over a fence line. Then the blood pretty much quit.
We never found more sign of him past their last blood and could not figure out how this deer was hit until we got him down and found that he had been hit behind the shoulder a smidge high, but did nick the lung before ricocheting off the scapula and exiting between his shoulder blades/ top of neck. (2nd picture)
This was one lung away from being one of those head scratchers! We really thought based on shot placement we were chasing one lung-spleen-mayyybe gut that should be dead.
Got it done at 1.2 miles🧡
