Maybe ya'll can help. Tonight i shot a nice buck at 15 yards quarting towards me.Arrow hit right front shoulder blade. Bow set at 60 pounds. rage 3 blade broadhead.after the shot he whelled around at haulded but. I saw the arrow sticking out about15 inches, which means only a few inches are inside. I found no blood, he is most likelt bleeding internally. Had a friend bring a dog and he trailed it like crazy for about 150 yards then nothing. Do ya'll think i will find this deer or will he surrive. What makes is worse is that i shot the same buck opening week of bow season here in florida, arrow went in halfway shot in the perfec spot and never found him. Tonight i could see the scar from where i shot him last time!

Bad part is "quarting towards me" which is not good . . . but, if you saw 15" sticking out and you are shooting 26-18" arrows then you got more than just a few inches of penetration. The hit had to be high which is why there is no blood showing up early in the trail. Only thing you can do now is go back in the morning and go to the last place the dog showed active interest. Then setup a grid pattern and start searching out 100 yds in different directions. If you didn't jump him with the dog while trailing him he just may be laying up there dead. At the last sign where the dog took you start looking at right angles as he may have jumped to the side and that is how the dog lost the trail.

IMO he is probably dead with that kind of hit. Did you find the arrow? I may start looking for the arrow at the last place you saw the deer and search hard for it as it will tell you a lot about your penetration.

Good luck.

No i didn't find the arow,i lost sight of him after 60 yards or so, I will look tomarrow for it though, if i find him i will put up a pic, he's a hoss for florida thats for sure!

was the dog properly trained to track deer? i hear a lot of people that make that mistake. if he wasn't you could have been trailing a deer from the day before or anything else for that matter. i would probably start all back over from where you shot and where you last saw the deer. if you can't produce anything there then go back to where the dog got you too. unless of course that dog is in fact trained to trail up deer, then i would start from where he left off


i hope you find him. big florida deer are hard to come by most of the time.

Its hard to believe that so many people will shoot a deer quarting towards them. Its not an ethical shot and you may lose the animal. Never take a quartering towards you shot period. If you say 15 inches were sticking out then there is atleast 10 inches inside of him. Yes the deer is probably dead, but you may not find him. All I can tell you is keep searching, because 150 yards isn't far compared to what a deer can go with an improper shot.

Sounds to me like you got adequate penetration to kill this deer, but the shot sounds a little high, so blood will have to fill up for it to leave a blood trail.

Get that dog and get out there and search, he should be dead, you just gotta find him :)

Well i searched everwhere yesterday for 3 hours and found nothing but his track where he entered the woods about,75 yards from where i last saw him. I'am thinking he 's gonna surrive until our next encounter:) On a side note i know quarting towars shots are not advised, but when your close and you have confidence in your shot i think i is acctetable. I shot a buck standing in the same spot at the same distance a few weeks ago.shot him in the identical spot quarting to me,with a rage 2 blade broadhead he flipped over backwards and died in a few seconds right in front of me and never got up. the only difference is he was about 60 pounds lighter than this other buck. Just my 2 cents, i guess , but thanks for the input!