What type of blood?? Lung, Heart, Liver, muscle?

[griffinit]

Based on this blood what do you think this bull got hit.

Thanks

 

[HellsCanyon]

Looks like an artery hit to me... Real oxygen rich blood with no bubbles....?

Mike

 

[Shrek]

What Mike said , not lung. If the trail is broken up and not stready I would guess high body , maybe liver if you are lucky. If it's unbroken then a lower hit to the leg or shoulder. If it's cold enough and had no idea I'd give him a few hours to die. If it's a high body hit without lung or liver it's going to be tough to find and if it's shoulder or leg it's likely the trail will quit and he will not be found . Good luck ! I hope you find him.

 

[Jager]

Arterial blood.

 

[AZCoues]

Arterial blood.

This.

 

[elkmule123]

Thanks for posting this, I learned a lot. This is why I like this site. Til now, I just knew a lung shot had bubbles and a gut shot had the green goo.

What Mike said , not lung. If the trail is broken up and not stready I would guess high body , maybe liver if you are lucky. If it's unbroken then a lower hit to the leg or shoulder. If it's cold enough and had no idea I'd give him a few hours to die. If it's a high body hit without lung or liver it's going to be tough to find and if it's shoulder or leg it's likely the trail will quit and he will not be found . Good luck ! I hope you find him.

Thanks for the info.

 

[Jason Snyder]

Liver blood is dark red.

I agree with Mike on the arterial blood. It's bright red because it's oxygenated. Venous blood is darker in color because it has already delivered the oxygen to the muscles.

Also, a "spray" pattern to blood indicates an arterial hit because of the higher pressure.

 

[Shrek]

Griffinit , did you find him or loose him ? Thats not a lot of blood so it's high and the bleeding is mostly internal or it's a smaller artery and only gushes when he moves a certain way. If it's an artery in a leg or shoulder he may survive the hit.

 

[littlebuf]

last time I saw blood like that was the first (and only)time I lost a deer. good luck, keep us posted

 

[griffinit]

Feeling sick about this one, searching and searching, he bedded down half a mile from where I shot him, I'm sure for the night and only lost 2 cups of blood, it clotted back up and he raked the crap out of a tree, Will be back in a couple days but now it's only a search to get his antlers, I'm hoping this bull is alive! I believe he is but can't sleep until I know. I will post a story later.
The shot hit low in the crease of his shoulder hitting bone, the arrow broke in two, and I found both the broadhead and the other end of the arrow within 5 yds of where the arrow hit the bull, everything just bounced out.
Thanks

 

[HellsCanyon]

Feeling sick about this one, searching and searching, he bedded down half a mile from where I shot him, I'm sure for the night and only lost 2 cups of blood, it clotted back up and he raked the crap out of a tree, Will be back in a couple days but now it's only a search to get his antlers, I'm hoping this bull is alive! I believe he is but can't sleep until I know. I will post a story later.
The shot hit low in the crease of his shoulder hitting bone, the arrow broke in two, and I found both the broadhead and the other end of the arrow within 5 yds of where the arrow hit the bull, everything just bounced out.
Thanks

That sucks man... I lost a spike elk my first year archery elk hunting. Range was off and I hit him at basically inside of his front leg (think armpit). Had blood just like this for about 100 yards and then it clotted up and he kept going. Never bedded down, headed up hill jumping blowdown like crazy... tracked him for 6+ hours and never found him. Confident that he lived though... After talking with lots of people we figure I sliced an artery or something similar on the inside of his leg and that's where the good blood trail came from initially.

People also need to realize that a mature bull has approximately 9 GALLONS of blood in their body...

And I will say that the bull I killed last year had a blood trail of maybe 2 oz over a 70 yard period before he died so you just never know!

Mike

 

[Shrek]

If he was raking trees and only lost two cups of blood he is most likely going to survive.