I didn’t take pictures of this because honestly it was a little gross LOL. I’ve killed a bunch of animals with Sevr’s and really like them, but I have never seen something like this!
Last night I was set up in a makeshift little ground setup on a little coulee that feeds up to a winter wheat field. It’s a really good travel corridor. It was my last day of hunting before having to get back to work so I had decided I was going to shoot any legal animal that presented a shot. Just before dark a spot a couple of does working up the coulee. I’m praying a buck is in tow, but alas it was just the does.
The bigger of the does is going to cross a shooting lane at 30 yards. As she walks behind a cedar I come to full draw. She steps clear and WHACK! My shot looked low and a little back. She hunched up and didn’t run, my heart sank thinking I’ve made a bad shot ir just gut shot her. I was getting another arrow knocked as she walks away from me. I range her at 50 yards, she has stopped and is hard quartering away. I had to get another arrow in her so I steady my 50 pin and release. The shot was just slightly right of where I was aiming and center punches her rear quarter.
I’ve never seen so much bright bright red blood escape from an archery shot deer! I immediately guessed I hit her femoral artery. She didn’t run or anything, just stood there, blood gushing. Then, the blood turned dark and brownish. She took several steps and as she did brownish yellow was coming out of the wound in her rear quarter. She went maybe 20 yards and then laid down and expired.
When I got up to her, I realized the arrow had driven up through her hind quarter, up into her guts, and it was stomach matter, etc. that was expelling from her wound…
I felt bummed for not making a clean lethal shot on her, but relieved that she didn’t suffer long.
The 2” Sevr damn near cut her rear quarter in half and the would opened a channel all the up to the diaphragm. I know no one would ever intentionally shoot an animal like that, but I was pretty shocked at the amount of damage/ trauma that broached did.
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Last night I was set up in a makeshift little ground setup on a little coulee that feeds up to a winter wheat field. It’s a really good travel corridor. It was my last day of hunting before having to get back to work so I had decided I was going to shoot any legal animal that presented a shot. Just before dark a spot a couple of does working up the coulee. I’m praying a buck is in tow, but alas it was just the does.
The bigger of the does is going to cross a shooting lane at 30 yards. As she walks behind a cedar I come to full draw. She steps clear and WHACK! My shot looked low and a little back. She hunched up and didn’t run, my heart sank thinking I’ve made a bad shot ir just gut shot her. I was getting another arrow knocked as she walks away from me. I range her at 50 yards, she has stopped and is hard quartering away. I had to get another arrow in her so I steady my 50 pin and release. The shot was just slightly right of where I was aiming and center punches her rear quarter.
I’ve never seen so much bright bright red blood escape from an archery shot deer! I immediately guessed I hit her femoral artery. She didn’t run or anything, just stood there, blood gushing. Then, the blood turned dark and brownish. She took several steps and as she did brownish yellow was coming out of the wound in her rear quarter. She went maybe 20 yards and then laid down and expired.
When I got up to her, I realized the arrow had driven up through her hind quarter, up into her guts, and it was stomach matter, etc. that was expelling from her wound…
I felt bummed for not making a clean lethal shot on her, but relieved that she didn’t suffer long.
The 2” Sevr damn near cut her rear quarter in half and the would opened a channel all the up to the diaphragm. I know no one would ever intentionally shoot an animal like that, but I was pretty shocked at the amount of damage/ trauma that broached did.
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