hyperflow Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 On the weekend i shot a 160+ deer, I shot he dropped and didn;t move for 15min. (i watched him from my tree) I came out of my tree stand went to camp to get my friends to help me haul him out of there. We get there 1 hour later, I get there the deer was gone, we looked all that day and a good part of the next with no sign of him. I thought i shot high and spinned him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambuscher Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 Alot of time if you spine shoot them they need another shot to finish them off. He probably drug himself off into a hollar somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMn106 Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 This happened to my brother a couple years ago. He shot a deer in the shoulder with a slug and dropped it. It stayed down for 10-15 minutes and then jumped up and took off running. We tracked it for 2-3 days and kept jumping him up. We seen him after the season and knew it was him because he had a limp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VermontHunter Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 Sounds as tho someone else found your deer while you were gone .. Seems if you spined him and he was down for the length of time you stated, even if he drug himself off there would be a trail to follow of some kind .. JMHO .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kid Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 Sounds as tho someone else found your deer while you were gone .. Seems if you spined him and he was down for the length of time you stated, even if he drug himself off there would be a trail to follow of some kind .. JMHO .. yup thats what i was thinking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csualumni21000 Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 Try a dog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 Sounds as tho someone else found your deer while you were gone .. Seems if you spined him and he was down for the length of time you stated, even if he drug himself off there would be a trail to follow of some kind .. JMHO .. yup thats what i was thinking Ditto x2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wimpy Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 Sounds as tho someone else found your deer while you were gone .. Seems if you spined him and he was down for the length of time you stated, even if he drug himself off there would be a trail to follow of some kind .. JMHO .. I agree! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wimpy Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 Sounds as tho someone else found your deer while you were gone .. Seems if you spined him and he was down for the length of time you stated, even if he drug himself off there would be a trail to follow of some kind .. JMHO .. I agree! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 Also may have just stunned him and he recovered and took off..... Thing is if you thought you spined him...you should have gone over right away and finished him off, rather then leave him there....spine shots just paralyze a deer, they don't kill them right away like lung shots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhine16 Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 Did you not go down and look at him??? Seems if I had a 160+ deer on the ground I'd be running to get my hands on him! Sounds to me like someone else found him, but you should still have some kind of blood trail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyperflow Posted November 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 I hunt on 1000 acher's of PP, nobudy picked him up. I was raining fairly hard when i got him so the blood was gone very fast. By the time we got there all we could do was grid search. Man that was a sleepless night, not to mention a heart break My buddys are saying i hit him in the horns and knocked him out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyperflow Posted November 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 Did you not go down and look at him??? Seems if I had a 160+ deer on the ground I'd be running to get my hands on him! Yeah im not sure why, i never go after a deer tell i have a friend there with me to help me take it out. Its been a few big deer i shoot and not even go see him. The reason i didn;t go finish him off is because he dropped and didn;t even move n inch for 10-15min. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhine16 Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 Yeah im not sure why, i never go after a deer tell i have a friend there with me to help me take it out. Its been a few big deer i shoot and not even go see him. Well i guess it's all a personal preference. I like to go sit by my deer and talk to the Lord for a second, doe or buck. But then again, you've probably shot a lot more deer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 Sounds as tho someone else found your deer while you were gone .. Seems if you spined him and he was down for the length of time you stated, even if he drug himself off there would be a trail to follow of some kind .. JMHO .. Afraid I would have to agree with this. Pretty sad to think another person in the woods near you who considers themself a hunter would claim a deer someone else shot as their own, but it does happen. About 6 or 7 years ago pretty sure that was what happened to a pretty nice for this area 8 pointer I shot on the opening morning of our rifle season. Was sure enough of the hit after looking at the blood and chunk of bone that I went back to get the truck before following up the trail, drank a cup of coffee and came back and tracked the deer just about to our property line following good bit of blood and the bucks twisting tracks that looked to be consistent with a shoulder hit. Had heard the person hunting the property behind us come in that morning before light, never heard him shoot, never heard him leave. Hate to make assumptions, but unfortuantely there are some sorry people out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbuckkilla89 Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 I shot one sunday that dropped like a spine shot and I tryed to get another arrow into him as he was thrashing and crawling around but i had no opening and after a few minutes he stood up and ran off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 You just temporarily paraliyzed him with your shot. I neck shot a buck with a 7mm Rem. mag...he dropped on the spot and started thrashing..he actually rolled down off the field edge down into the creek, I could hear him down in there and figured he was done for...with shooting light fading I go over to have a look..guess what?...GONE!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyperflow Posted November 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 You just temporarily paraliyzed him with your shot. I neck shot a buck with a 7mm Rem. mag...he dropped on the spot and started thrashing..he actually rolled down off the field edge down into the creek, I could hear him down in there and figured he was done for...with shooting light fading I go over to have a look..guess what?...GONE!!! Yeah that has to be it, i didn;t know they could be temporarily paraliyzed. I know tho this will scare me for life, next time im going down and tieing my deers to trees Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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