Looks a lot like what’s gonna take place at my house this weekend. Wife is in Red Wing, so the girls will be playing in the sprinkler while I watch from the lounge chair. Although I won’t be licking them to groom them. 
That was a fun watch! 
Took a shot at a buck tonite that was quartering away from me 35 yards away, I thought that the shot was a little low and when I went to get the arrow I found some white hair. As the deer was walking away he was limping as well. I let the deer be for about 2 hours, started tracking due to the rain coming and found plenty of blood, one spot where he had stopped the blood was pooled up and had bubbles in it. I ended up bumping the deer out of some switch grass and then backed out. Do you think that the shot was a kill shot or is it a muscle wound with the shot being too low?
Sounds like a gut shot deer to me. Good call on backing out, hopefully he’ll lie down again and stiffen up for good.
Keep on him, he should be a dead deer. If you lose the blood trail you should be able to smell him if he’s close
Quartering away, you probably hit behind the diaphragm, (gut), but may have also caught a smidgeon of lung (bubbles). The lung, if being hit on the peripheral aspect, could clot off. The gut however, will usually slowly kill a deer.
Justin’s right, back out, go back in tomorrow. He’ll stiffen up and and be waiting for you….
Let us know how it turns out….
Did you find it?
DT
I went back the next day and searched high and low on the property and all of the adjacent properties but did not find him, the rain and snow the night before did not help at all either. But the good news is I got back in the stand and arrowed a bruiser Sunday night and put a great shot on him and recovered him without a problem, I will post pics once I download them.
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I ended up bumping the deer out of some switch grass and then backed out.
Hope you learned something here. ANY time you have a marginal hit, leave the deer be, especially when gut shot. If left all night, that deer would have been within 30 yards of that bed, and dead.
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