Interesting Facebook post

[timmymac24]

I shot a cow elk in AZ mid October in the first rifle season. I was taking the front quarters off and hit something metal. My first thought is that was a barb-wire fence piece. Nope a broadhead with tissue growth all around it. My guess is it was in her shoulder for at least a year. I will post a pic of it when I get a moment. It wasn't a Rage but shouldn't have been on the end of an arrow.

 

[OMB]

The number of I shot a buck/bull/bear and lost it threads and posts seem at an all time high. Rifle, ML, archery.

New hunters could very well be it.

Feel like I haven't been online without seeing a "Help, I aimed right on his shoulder and there's not much blood" for 3 months now. Not sure if it's more people posting online, or a trend of inexperienced bow hunters, but this season seems like's it been way worse than normal.

 

[long hunter]

It happens, years ago shot a buck white tail, while splitting him down the back for hanging and cooling saw went zing, there was a old broad head in one of the vertrabre, it was grown around with gristle and such who knows that boy walked around with it.

 

[dylanvb]

My buddy shot a Javelina with his bow last year that had a hole through its front ankle from someone’s previous miss. IMO yeah it could be new archers but it could also be older more experienced archers too. At this point it’s all speculation. Everyone has misses.

 

[Warrior27]

I have pulled old broadheads out of elk on 7 different occasions. The first was back in 1988. It isn't a new problem, it is just publicized now because of social media.

This^^

 

[dieselchessy]

I’ve found broadheads, muzzy slugs, and rifle slugs in elk and deer over the years. I’ve also found dead elk with arrow in them.
From 1994 till present.
I expect archery would wound more, but that’s not anything new or ground breaking.
Seems archery is much more popular these days, probably due to the media coverage as of late.
I also expect poachers and automobiles take a bigger toll, so while I believe folks should always strive for better, I don’t believe archery reform is a point to be prioritized.

 

[Don Qui Puncher]

The buck I shot last year had an old muzzy 3 blade and whatever this is. It busted through the blade but not much further.

 

[Loggerdude]

Pulled an aluminum shaft with a broad head in 1978 along the shoulder blade. Must have been out of a tree stand looking at the angle straight down. Maybe the first hunter bow hunter in a tree stand.

 

[dreamingbig]

I have pulled old broadheads out of elk on 7 different occasions. The first was back in 1988. It isn't a new problem, it is just publicized now because of social media.

Yup. So easy to take a photo and post now!


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[dreamingbig]

A cow I shot in MT in 2019 during archery season (34 yards, complete pass thru) had bullet fragments in her hind quarter when we butchered her. Gasp! You mean rifle hunters wound too?!?


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[lak2004]

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Light arrows, crap broadheads and lack of practice + Instagram= this

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[Sanchez]

Its good to hear a lot of the elk that are hit and not recovered by archery hunters survive to be harvested at a later date. I hike a lot in good roosevelt country on the Oregon coast and rarely find a dead wasted elk from an archery hunter.

The time I see wasted dead elk is during late rifle cow hunts. Hunters can't tell one cow from another. When they get into a herd they keep shooting, often at different animals, until they see one go down. They often fatally hit multiple elk.

 

[sndmn11]

Feel like I haven't been online without seeing a "Help, I aimed right on his shoulder and there's not much blood" for 3 months now. Not sure if it's more people posting online, or a trend of inexperienced bow hunters, but this season seems like's it been way worse than normal.

Agreed, I think there were three on here this September posted the same day. There's a lot of mythically magical elk with iron double lung boiler room parts where some people hunt.

 

[Reburn]

Agreed, I think there were three on here this September posted the same day. There's a lot of mythically magical elk with iron double lung boiler room parts where some people hunt.

Exactly. And they think the answer is build a heavier, higher foc arrow then they already have. That will fix everything. Especially bad accuracy.

 

[Southforkguy]

Desperation. To fill expensive tags and post on the Gram. I know some guys who should have their rights revoked just because of their inability to make good ethical shots. Crows love em, neighbors hate em

 

[TheTone]

I know multiple people that have found rifle bullets and shotgun pellets in harvested animals, I don’t know anyone personally that’s found an arrow or broadhead in one. My dads Idaho moose had a 22 bullet in its butt. Just my experience of 40 years hunting idaho

 

[sram9102]

Found this in a does shoulder a few years back. Wound had healed over. Tough animals for sure.

 

[MThuntr]

This was last week...little guy has been with an arrow in him for who knows how long. He was exhausted and stuck in an irrigation canal. Game warden took care of him.

 

[Beendare]

The worst Ive seen

 

[Gobbler36]

You are right, it is nothing new. I believe in was in the mid-1980's, maybe earlier, that Idaho reported they figured the wounding loss on archery elk was the same as recovered archery elk.

ClearCreek

If that’s true that’s a sad sad statistic