We need PICS.

Soon...

Congrats and good on ya for sticking with it. Hope maybe you can salvage some meat.

First I want to say thanks again to those who were willing to give advice.

Starting the daylight there was much more blood and hair at the hit site than I had found the night before so that was good to see. After following the same blood I was on the night before for 50ish yards there was nothing until a spot we found grid searching. Nearby there was a bed with two small pools of blood in it and that was it. At this point we just started trouncing through the cutover and surrounding area looking - shout to my hunting buddy for lending a hand. We followed the thick stuff downhill towards the creek and split up at the edge. After covering the creek both ways we started working back towards the spot we split up but my buddy had crossed over the creek.


I saw my friend across the creek and headed that way and as I was closing in on the little creek I walked up to this:

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He died down in the creek under the ledge. We had repeatedly walked within 100 yards of him but there was just no sign. I went back from there to last blood about 100 yards away twice and there was nothing else.

Upon closer inspection of the shot I found the exit wound on the down side:


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The entry wound is nowhere to be found. I think it was right in the shirt pocket area but the processor is going to let me know. I'm hopeful that the creek would have helped keep him cold enough to salvage.

Harvest recorded:

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Best buck yet!:

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I don't know what to say about the blood trail honestly. I know I wouldn't have found this deer without luck, and a trail I went on earlier this year helped for sure as it was a sparse trail too. The bone was a rib bone based on looking the deer over, but the bone was from the off side and was found on the on side. I believe that the blood matter I found last night was liver and perhaps the low exit was plugged with gut matter.

Shot was about 25 yards

.270 Winchester

140 grain Accubond

Congratulations!

Very nice buck. Wallpaper

Congrats. Great buck.

I'm glad you found him. Congrats on a great buck. How far did he make from where you shot him?

I'm anxious to hear what happened on this one...…….I'm still putting my bets on that the bone came from the leg and he got into the body cavity low. I'll just have to eat crow if it actually turned out to be a rib bone.

I am too. I'm holding steady on the upper leg shot.

Awesome buck man! Congratulations!!

I’m so glad you found him! That’s a great buck!

He said it was a rib bone, yall were wrong, dont be democrats, just say "well I was wrong", its no big deal, happens to everyone. Notice the hole in the deers side.

There's no fun in that. His opinion was rib bone ours is leg. We're waiting on the processor to give the facts on what the bone was. We're just having a little fun like normal people do. Some of you guys are wound way to tight.

Glad you found him! Way to stick with it! Sometimes bullets do weird things at close yardage.

Very nice deer glad you found him.

Good on you for sticking with it even after losing blood. Sometimes deer do weird things and are tougher than expected. Looking at the exit wound I don't know how he made it that far … he was dead and just didn't know it. Congrats!

Way to stay with it! Congrats