This years marks.
nice!! Another day no deer sightings. I did have something crazy happen. This morning I was hit in the face by a bat or some sort of flying furry animal!!!! I swear no lie, I have two small marks above my right eye. It was still about 45 minutes before shooting light, and it smoked me . Nothing hit the ground and all I know is if felt like a furry tennis ball. Crazy!
nice!! Another day no deer sightings. I did have something crazy happen. This morning I was hit in the face by a bat or some sort of flying furry animal!!!! I swear no lie, I have two small marks above my right eye. It was still about 45 minutes before shooting light, and it smoked me . Nothing hit the ground and all I know is if felt like a furry tennis ball. Crazy!
nice!! Another day no deer sightings. I did have something crazy happen. This morning I was hit in the face by a bat or some sort of flying furry animal!!!! I swear no lie, I have two small marks above my right eye. It was still about 45 minutes before shooting light, and it smoked me . Nothing hit the ground and all I know is if felt like a furry tennis ball. Crazy!
Furry tennis ball? Sure it wasn't a flying squirrel?nice!! Another day no deer sightings. I did have something crazy happen. This morning I was hit in the face by a bat or some sort of flying furry animal!!!! I swear no lie, I have two small marks above my right eye. It was still about 45 minutes before shooting light, and it smoked me . Nothing hit the ground and all I know is if felt like a furry tennis ball. Crazy!
Furry tennis ball? Sure it wasn't a flying squirrel?
I made it to the farm in time to get in a tree for a few hours before dark. We saw 9 does but no bucks.
A hunter who owns property north of us put a crossbow bolt through a decent 10 pointer we've been seeing on camera. He tracked it for 200 yards and lost the blood when it got dark, he's color blind which doesn't help. He called ask about tracking on to our place in the morning and we went out and tried to track it for him. We followed the blood for another 150 yards before it stopped. Fortunately the blood stopped 15 yards in front of one of our cameras so we pulled the card and it looks like he snuck it above the lungs but below the spine. We'll be seeing more of that buck.
...but have seen a few dead deer along the road sides with only a couple with missing heads where somebody wanted some antlers...
If the shot went under the spine it got the lungs.
There is no "void".
Now, can a deer survive a peripheral lung hit?
According to a bowhunter in a well known publication..............yes.
He shot and lost a buck, only to shoot it 2 or 3 days later. It was obviously stressed, but alive and moving about, possibly on the mend.
Dunno if such a hit can be survived for a short period of time or allow for full recovery.
Now will a peripheral hit that could be survived (full recovery) cause enough stress to limit a deer's short time escape efforts should it be set upon by coyotes?
Probably a safe bet to go with a high lung hit being fatal.