Or just put up all the currently fashionable, expandable broadheads that are all the "rage" and shoot a fixed 3 blade muzzy that will still get through the shoulder and into the chest cavity even if you hit a little too far forward. What broadhead was he shooting? I've shot several (4 or 5) through the shoulders with muzzys (unintentionally) and not once did I not get an exit. I shot a doe square through the shoulders (both) about 5 years ago and the arrow actually stuck about 2 inches deep into a big sweetgum tree she was standing up against. Had to get a pair of pliers to get it out. Naturally she broke the arrow when she took off but it wouldve been a complete pass through had it not hit the tree on the backside.

I think he said slick tricks maybe…..I agree that fixed blades penetrate better if you accidentally hit shoulder but the shoulder of a mature buck is a lot different than the shoulder of a doe. There’s a lot of meat, bone, and plate to stop an arrow. The expandables damn near just bounce off. I think arrow weight also plays a factor.

I was shooting fixed blade slick tricks

Great story! Are you guys friends prior to the call, or was it a surprise you were going to your old stomping grounds?

Thanks....

I’ve known for a year or two now that he lived in my old house. He said something one day in a thread about his neighbor and it caught my attention.

I don’t know if he was doing it as a joke or just wasn’t thinking about it at the time…. but he texted me the address the night before when we were setting up a time to meet……I was like “Yeah man, I think I’ll be able to find it.”

Found an old pic of Sam to add to the story......

I shoot fmj 11.0 gpi arrows and pull 70+ lbs.

I’ve never had a problem with a shoulder stopping a rage from getting to the needed area

I'm wondering if arrow weight isn't playing more of a role than the broadhead.......

Call just came in….. A guy’s girlfriend shot her first deer with a bow and it’s a pretty decent buck from the sounds of it. They think it was hit a little far back in the guts but they reported finding some decent blood…..so it may be liver/gut. Tracked it 100 yards before losing the trail. This one sounds promising but you never know…….

To be continued……..

Found him....Story to come.

Good deal!!

This was a pretty simple find this morning. The deer was probably 300 yards and it we pretty much tracked straight to it. This hunt had been filmed so I had the luxury of actually getting to watch the shot. She would have smoked him except for the fact the he ducked and started wheeling around to run before the arrow hit him. As a result it hit high about midways back and came out just in front of the hind quarter. You can see the exit hole in the pic. A bobcat had beat us to the deer and tried to cover it over to hide it. It’s whole head was covered over in leaves. I’m assuming it was a bobcat but it very well may have been a black panther. This was the young ladies first buck and first deer with a bow. It was only her second deer she had ever killed with a gun or bow.

Call just came in for tomorrow morning. Not a lot to go on with this one. A young hunter shot a buck just before dark with a 243.....They’ve found small amounts of blood but only tracked it a short distance before losing it. They jumped a deer while looking but not 100% sure it was their deer. They said it looked like it was definitely favoring its right leg. Hoping this one isn’t a leg shot. We’ll find out in the morning.

To be continued………..

My wife's shot 2 deer lower in the shoulder,but still fatal,with her .243 ,and the blood trail on both was over 100 yards and very light, but we did find both. I'll be tuned in tomorrow to see if you can find it. Good luck

Yeah, it's hard to say what might have happened on this one. It may have been a good shot and just not have an exit hole. We'll know more in the morning.

It was a leg hit. We tracked it about 350 yards or so and got him up out of the bed. He blew at us and took off. There was as decent amount of blood in the bed but it was that ol' watery blood from a muscle wound. If we would have had more room we might could have gotten another shot on him..... but as it was we pushed him a few hundred yards further before he crossed over on the neighbors and we called it off.

About to give the Lowndes Co track a go and see if we can find it. Waiting on hunter now.

How’d Lowndes go?

No recovery on this one. I feel like the deer may be hit where I circled in the pic below. It was a broadside shot as the buck walked out into a food plot at about 125 yards. The hunter’s dad reported that it had came up in the front end off its feet as it wheeled around and bolted back into the woods. There was two small spots of blood about the size of a tennis ball or so at 50 yards and 80 yards where it looked like the deer stopped before bolting out of the area. There was also a few decent drips between the two spots. Nothing from that point on that we could find. I think the deer wheeled around, ran 50 yards and stopped to see what happened.....walked another 30 yards and stopped again....then took off as the hunters came in for the recovery.

We tracked it for about 800 yards before calling it off. I never could find a bed in this one spot but we came across an area where I feel like the deer bedded up just due to Otis’s behavior. He tracked a bee line for about 350-400 yards before circling a little thick area numerous times before taking the track on. I feel like there’s a good chance this deer is just grazed real hard. This is just my best guess after putting all the clues together.