sndmn11
Well Known pink hat wearing Rokslider
The Internet told him to keep waiting it out.So... I guess the OP isn't coming back?
The Internet told him to keep waiting it out.So... I guess the OP isn't coming back?
Interesting. I think I mentioned in a previous post that most of my experience is with deer, perhaps Elk are different. Liver hits in a deer they never stop bleeding, they're going to die for sure, but it takes time. Perhaps there's more liver/lung overlap on Elk and liver is also taking some lung?Interesting.
I'd never heard this and my experience (elk) has been the exact opposite.
Liver hit practically as good as a heart shot.
Bingo! Heading out to hunt shooting 4ft groups is the start. When you make that choice there's no reason to not research how to track an animal shot anywhere from the nose to the tail.The year I shot that elk I was struggling with target panic, however I did not even truly recognize what it is.
Bingo! Heading out to hunt shooting 4ft groups is the start. When you make that choice there's no reason to not research how to track an animal shot anywhere from the nose to the tail.
Almost zero IMO. I think people spent too much time in the city and assume meat spontaneously goes bad from sitting, it doesn't. Obviously around the wound channel it's going to be nasty and if there's any scavengers around that dig into it that's a loss but if the skin is on that meat will last a lot longer than people think. JMO but I think people choose to leave meat behind far too often and it's not actually bad meat.No way to know but I'd venture to guess just as much,bid not more, meat is wasted by coming back the next day as opposed to going after the animal.
Checked all the known water and surrounding areas like a hawk, birds took me to plenty of dead elk but not mine. By day three my utter despondency at having lost and wasted him started to turn into a weird type of distilled hope he may have lived, because I am virtually convinced I would have found him had he been there.Birds, birds birds at this point if he's dead.
Any water nearby to check?
A liver hit is not as good as a heart shot, period.Interesting.
I'd never heard this and my experience (elk) has been the exact opposite.
Liver hit practically as good as a heart shot.