The American Beagler Forum

Well I want to share my hunt i went on today with you guys i had some wierd happen. Ive been deerhunting for 10 or 12 yrs now and never had anything like this happen. First let me lay out my hunting spot for you imagine going back in some dence moutain and brushy area and finding a beautiful green field about 300 yards long and 100 yards wide with a creek running down the side in the middle of no where its awsome deer trails everywhere well ive been hunting it for weeks but seeing nothing but does well that all changed this moring i sat down on the edge of the field looking up to the end hadn't been there 30 mins and i hear something headed off the moutain in a hurry. well here pops out a doe about 100 yards away spots me and jumps back up the hill but i still here something coming down the hill tearing up jack well out strolls this big 10pointer searchin for that doe well i want lie i got to eager sence i haven't seen a buck all year and took a quick shot at him walking out brodside and missed heck he just willed around looking straight at my direction about a 150 yards away so i steady my shot aim center of his chest and bam he hits the ground hollerin and belluring like crazy and rolls over in the creek so i go to bolt my gun to reload but it jams and takes me a min to fix that so i wait him out well its been 3 or 4 minis and down comes my uncle from his blind saying how he heard that deer going on all the way at the top of the hill. well to make a long story short i went to where he was suppose to be laying dead and he wasn't there no blood no hair and you couldn't see anywhere through the woods that he went so ive spent 3 hours today crawling through briars and brush looking for a deer that i couldn't find. its crazy i watched him fall and roll into the creek never seen him bolt off and only took my eye off the area long enough to reload now what do ya think about that. just my luck lol

If he was facing you and you shot him in the brisket, you probably won't find blood. He is probably laying dead somewhere within 100 yards of where you shot him though. (Assuming that you hit him in the chest and not skimming a shot off his head.)

Is the creek big enough that he could have floated downstream?

Good luck finding him.
Emery

i have lost a few just like that i dropped one once n i was i a tree stand he dropped in his tracks i stayed in stand thinking another would come along i looked at the buck several times through my scope him just laying there after about 4 hours i came down n went over to where he was laying guess what no buck myself n 3 other guys searched that whole hillside for about 3 hours or longer never did find the deer i could tell ya about a few more but thats enuf huntin n peckin for now jb

i know i hit him square on in the chest it puzzles me he dropped like a sack of potatoes and rolled into the creeks its got about 5 inchs of water so he didn't float off but ive crawled through ever brush pile around looking for him.

YOu've pobably already done it but make sure you look in the creek up and down stream.. We found one while rabbit hunting one year in a wash area that was deep enough to cover the whole deer.. For the most part you could step across the creek but this little turn had washed out over the years and he laid down in it after being shot... One of the guys saw the corner of the antler and called us over... Just standing there looking you could not tell a deer was under that water...

about 5 years ago I shot at a doe and she dropped. I walked all the way across a field to her then she got up and ran off. The next day my buddy was hunting my farm and he tells me the same story happened to him. At the end of season the neighbor had the same story. Today I killed two and after dragging them a half mile I wish I would have killed a fawn. My wife is right I'm out of shape.

Check the creek most wounded animals will find some water either up or down stream they like to lay in fresh running water when they are hurt and sometimes die there Thats also why you are not finding blood he may have ran up or down the creek.

I got one for ya Last Monday afternoon I was in my stand between a thick bedding area cuttover woods and a corn feild been seeinbg alot of nice bucks not to many doe's but none the size I was looking for well about an hour before dark i have 1 doe and 2 really nice bucks come in a 9 point and a big 8 point about 50 yards and start running the doe down to me well the they get to my 35 yard marker and the bucks start fighting so I sit there trying to decide if I should take one oof them or just wait for a more mature buck when to my right I hear something crashing down through the woods and about 25 yards out of the cuttover pops out a massive buck he was a main 12 point but had sticker points about 1-3 inchs long everywhere well I shoot put a great shot on him takes off down the hill and crashs about 70 yards from where I shoot him my arrow went right through him broad side looked like lungs more then heart I wait 15 minutes walk down to the truck call my brother and dad to come help me load him I get back to the fence line where he died and all I find is a truck driving across the neighbors feild and a gut pile where my buck died on my land. I call the game warden he says well you can't prove it died on your land and as long as they tagged it there is nothing he can do.

outlaw thats crappy what happend to you id kick some butt lol over something like that. Im not giving up im going to find this buck i figure the hawks and stuff will start to circle in a couple days but i will get that rack i hate not being able to find him but all in all we looked for 6hours its some thick stuff where he had to run into.