FullStrutter Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 Anyone that has the morning available to help track, another one of my friends shot a BIG 10 pointer this evening. Felt it was a double lung. So we pursued after giving it way more than enough time of 2 hours. Not so, we followed great blood for a couple hundred yards, heavy blood, bubbly lung blood, never found the arrow, but did find a bed. When we hit the bed, blood all over it and in it on both sides, we pulled out, that was 30 minutes ago. We will continue on the track from the bed tomorrow morning at first light. We GPS'd it. Any and all help would be appreciated. Please call my cell if you would like to join the tracking/search effort: Scott: 860.830.4817 It is in Wallingford. Thanks guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stcif Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 I would help but I'm a long way away in upstate NY. I wish you the best. Sounds to me like you will find it. Maybe only one lung was hit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 2 hours and no deer, but a bloody bed? To be quite honest, I think you may have bumped it out of its death bed, and I'm betting it wasn't a double lung. Good luck tomorrow, sure hope you find him, sounds like a nice deer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rem308 Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 Yes, get in there and find that bruiser...hope the weather cooperates. Good luck and I look forward to checking in here for some pictures. Best of luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 2 hours and no deer, but a bloody bed? To be quite honest, I think you may have bumped it out of its death bed, and I'm betting it wasn't a double lung. Good luck tomorrow, sure hope you find him, sounds like a nice deer. Agreed.. two hours and a double lung hit?? I doubt it...good luck with your tracking... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 Good luck in the search tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOYTnMUZZYboy Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 I'm gonna half to agree with some of the other guys. A double lung hit deer ushally won't lay down then get back up. When there down there down and out. Good luck on finding him. Let us know what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 I unfortunatley just went throught the same thing with my buddy. I'm guessing he hit high and clipped the opposite side lung. We jumped his buck 11 hours after the shot. Don't get out there too early and good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rad_112176 Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 Sounds just like the deer that i shot this year. I hit him in the liver and found 5 or 6 different beds that had good blood in them. Even with giving him overnight he was gone. Be sure to not give up looking for him though. I just recieved a call from a friend that said he found him yesterday while doing some more scouting. I was as close as 50 yrds to him at one time in a large grass field. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pointing_dogs_rule Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 Good luck, no double lung hit or he would have been expired. He is dead in the area. Do a grid search. good luck to all thedog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 I have to agree with Chris. Might have caught one lung though. Good luck this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoosierhunter Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 Howd it go? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullStrutter Posted November 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2008 WE FOUND THE BIG BOY! The recovery was a lot tougher than I ever expected it to be, given the outstanding blood trail. We were following it literally running at times, in the dark, with flashlights, it was so heavy. However, I felt that we must pull out when we found the empty bed, whether we jumped him, or his near death feelings caused him to get back up on his last leg of life and run until expiring minutes after getting shot. Either way I knew that bed was a bad sign and we should give it more time. We actually never found another drop of blood this morning. We found him by grid searching for almost 3 hours before stumbling on him in the most unexpected of directions, a solid 150 yards from the bloody bed. When we field dressed him, we found that the arrow sliced a long 1/4" slash right across the top of the close lung, and nearly center punched the far lung. I still have no idea how this beautiful buck went 400 yards but that's what makes hunting these magnificent creatures an awesome challenge...you never know what they are capable of or what they are going to do. Here are a few pics that I figured you guys might want to see! This is the best buck I have ever been part of recovering, enjoying, and celebrating over. Best of all, it was one of my best friends which makes it really special, he is on the right in the first pic. Enjoy! Scotty Any guesses on gross green score? We scored him! He is a monster for Connecticut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcs3344 Posted November 6, 2008 Report Share Posted November 6, 2008 138 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted November 6, 2008 Report Share Posted November 6, 2008 Great deer. Glad you recovered him! I center punched 2 lungs on a doe once and watched her sprint across a picked bean field until I lost sight of her. She went at least 400 yards on no lungs, so it doesn't surprise me your buck went that far on basically one lung. Congrats to you and your friend. I'd guess that deer to be low 130's gross right around Pope after deductions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdavis Posted November 6, 2008 Report Share Posted November 6, 2008 138 Exactly what I was going to say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pointing_dogs_rule Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 high 120's gross. maybe 130. congrats on a great deer and the great recovery. good luck to all the dog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illinois59 Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Wow, nice recovery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 glad you found him!! Congrats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NY_Bowhunter14 Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 awesome news that you found him!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big12Eric Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Glad u found him. That is a heck of a nice deer. Nice pics also. Congrats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardwood_HD Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 awesome job! congrats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njbowhntr Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Congrats on finding him. That is a great deer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backwoods07 Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 That's a hog of a deer! Great job finding him too!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murphy617 Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 congrats to you and your friend on the deer and the tracking job!!! are you guys on state or private land in ct??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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