cutty98
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I need y'all's help.
This morning, my wife wounded a really nice buck up here in northern Idaho. After some searching we decided to pull out and give him some time, just in case.
In the meantime I wanted to run the situation past some folks who might be able to give me some helpful advice.
She shot the buck at about 120 yards, broadside. Upon getting shot, he reared up on his hind legs then ran about 20 yards into a thin strip of trees.
I felt pretty confident that she had made a good shot but decided we should give him some time anyways. At about the 20min mark a really nice buck stepped out in the exact same spot where the previous buck had been. This new buck was following a doe and in the back of my mind I thought it might be the same buck, but I hadn't seen the original bucks antlers good enough to be confident. We watched him stand there for a minute then he followed the doe off into the trees.
At this point I decided we should go in and look for blood, which I found pretty quick. After getting shot he went about 20-50 yards into the trees then spent the 20mins right there. The small, maybe the size of a dinner plate, pool of blood here was pretty dark with some bone chunks and lots of fat. He then circled around, and came out in the exact same spot again. The blood trail on the small circle he made was really spotty with some pin pricks here and there. In some cases the fat looked like someone had carried a candle along dripping wax with small drops of blood in it.
The blood trail dried up and I could no longer follow it after he followed the doe off and yes, it was definitely the same buck.
Any insights, thoughts, or tips would be appreciated.
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This morning, my wife wounded a really nice buck up here in northern Idaho. After some searching we decided to pull out and give him some time, just in case.
In the meantime I wanted to run the situation past some folks who might be able to give me some helpful advice.
She shot the buck at about 120 yards, broadside. Upon getting shot, he reared up on his hind legs then ran about 20 yards into a thin strip of trees.
I felt pretty confident that she had made a good shot but decided we should give him some time anyways. At about the 20min mark a really nice buck stepped out in the exact same spot where the previous buck had been. This new buck was following a doe and in the back of my mind I thought it might be the same buck, but I hadn't seen the original bucks antlers good enough to be confident. We watched him stand there for a minute then he followed the doe off into the trees.
At this point I decided we should go in and look for blood, which I found pretty quick. After getting shot he went about 20-50 yards into the trees then spent the 20mins right there. The small, maybe the size of a dinner plate, pool of blood here was pretty dark with some bone chunks and lots of fat. He then circled around, and came out in the exact same spot again. The blood trail on the small circle he made was really spotty with some pin pricks here and there. In some cases the fat looked like someone had carried a candle along dripping wax with small drops of blood in it.
The blood trail dried up and I could no longer follow it after he followed the doe off and yes, it was definitely the same buck.
Any insights, thoughts, or tips would be appreciated.
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