Do deer run with tail up or down after being shot?
I sure hope you are texting this question while taking a break in your truck - getting ready to go back out and find your deer. Sounds like you hit it. You dont get blood on an arrow by hitting it in the tail, hoof or ear. Not unusual for the blood to get wiped off when the arrow exits the opposite side. Go grab a buddy and a flashlight - get out there and claim your buck! He probably did not go as far as you might think. I have followed trails where I 'logically' expected to find the thing....... then got worried........ only to find out it had made a superman like jump directly off the trail at 90 degrees into a clumb of weeds and died. And usually not so far from where they were hit. You can never tell........ but you need to go back and look. You'll find it. Just dont give up.
What is the biggest deer ever shot down?
You can have a gander, here:http://www.boone-crockett.org/Bg...
One lung shot on a deer?
I am a fanatic bow hunter...I have hunted many years...and while a double lung shot will take out any deer that is hit with an arrow, there are times a deer will get away when only one lung is hit....he can actually survive the hit....one lung will keep him alive....providing all major arteries were missed also. When you bow hunt....a bad angle or a bad shot will happen on occasion. But still, it makes you feel devastated that the opportunity was lost. In bow hunting.....shot placement is everything...and a bad angle creates poor shot placement. One of the lowest percentage shots you can take with a bow...is a frontal shot..Your best chance at success when bowhunting, is to wait for the right angle....and it is the hardest thing in the world to do, when you first start bowhunting. You may find the deer dead...but it is a good chance the deer lived....and will not be found until someone kills it later in the year or the following years.
How can a deer be shot in the chest and still manage to run so far before dying?
Shot placement is the single most important consideration when hunting. A well placed shot into the vitals of a game animal (Heart/lungs) will prove fatal. There are a number of factors that come into play as to how far an animal will run before expiring. The general health of an animal. The alertness before being shot and of course what it was shot with. A high powered rifle cartridge will do massive damage with the projectile (bullet) but it will also impart hydrostatic shock to the animal as well. A high powered hunting bullet that rapidly dumps all of its energy inside the animal can produce a hydrostatic shock to the animal and drop it dead in its tracks, the animal just drops where it was standing. If it doesn’t produce the hydrostatic shock then the animal will die from blood loss (collapse of the circulatory system) how much adrenal the animal has, its fit and condition and how rapid the circulatory system collapses will determine how far the animal can run after it is hit. Did the bullet take out both lungs? one lung (will run much further)? Heart and lungs you get the idea. I’ve shot deer with an arrow and the animal barely reacted to being shot, didn’t even spook, maybe bounded off 5 or 10 yards, stopped and looked around. The animal didn’t even realize it was hit, the arrow passed completely through the deer with a 1.5″ broadhead. The arrow took out both lungs and in 10–15 seconds it started blowing blood out its mouth and nostrils. Still standing and looking then it collapsed like it just passed out on its feet. No bleeting sounds of pain the eyes just rolled back and it collapsed. I’ve also had a 1 lunger and that deer traveled 400 yards. Shot placement is king.
How many shots from a remington 597 will take down a deer?
You shooting the deer with a .22 is illegal. You probably just wounded it. Now the deer will get an infection and die a Very painful death. That is one of the most inhumane things you can do to a deer.
On average,how far does a deer run after a lung/heart shot?
I have made perfect double lung shots with a 30/06 on calm deer that never had a clue that anything was wrong. And yet the deer would run 50- 120 yards. I have also made that same shot on countless deer that would result in the deer dropping in his or her tracks. Any opinion I may have on this would only be a guess on my part.So here is my guess- I think that it has something to do with skeletal damage being more on some shots then others, even though the shot went through both lungs in each instance. But that's just a guess. But when bowhunting, the deer will always run off unless you hit the backbone or the neckbone. A deer shot with an arrow that goes through both lungs, will usually run from 50- 80 yards and will drop within your sight if the woods are not too thick.
Is it true that hunters can't shoot female deer?
It depends on where you’re hunting. In some jurisdictions does cannot be legally shot at all. In others they are legal game only if the hunter has a special “doe permit.” In still others shooting does is not only permitted but encouraged. In fact, for a few years in parts of my state (Arkansas) a hunter could only legally shoot a buck after he had first killed a given number of does.In much of North America deer are severely overpopulated and hunting is the only economically effective means of keeping the population in check. But to thin out a deer herd, does must be shot. One buck can easily impregnate several does in a breading season. So if hunters shoot only bucks, the result is that the surviving bucks get to mate more and the spring birth rate remains the same.Even in areas where does can legally be shot, some hunters refuse to do so on the rationale that it’s somehow “unchivalrous” or “unsportsmanlike” to shoot a doe. Personally I think this type of thinking is outdated and antithetical to sound game management. For my part, I have killed many big bucks and am no longer interested in hanging large racks in my living room. Does taste better than bucks and it makes more sense to shoot them. So when it’s legal, I do.
Why does a white-tailed deer after being shot keep its tail down and not up?
The standard explnation for tails up is to confuse predators. Either the mass of tails of a group of deer makes it hard for them to pick one deer to pursue. Or the predator thinks that when the tail goes down, that the deer has kept running with tail up but has just passed out of sight - the predator thinks the deer is somewhere it is not.A wounded deer on the other hand, wants to lost the predator as quickly as possible. The predator is going to be able to follow the blood trail. If the deer runs a couple of hundred yards with tail up, the predator just runs to where he saw the last tail, and then sniffs for blood.Not quite as tight an argument as I would like.