|
Sponsored By... Watlington Outdoors – Plan & Book Your Hunting Trips Monroe Township, NJ (732) 236-2185 - duane@watlingtonoutdoors.com http://www.watlingtonoutdoors.com |
|
|
| Home PMs Upload New Posts |
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 3:46 PM | ||
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 4252 Monster Buck:  Join Date: Jul 2007 |
|
Lets see if these pics work, then I'll get on with the story........... __________________ "How can you be so hypocritical to look down on a man who is honest enough to kill his own?" (Thanks MTH)
"The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma" "Patience is the key to success" |
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 3:48 PM | ||
|
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 4252 Monster Buck: Join Date: Jul 2007 |
|
Alright I uploaded pics....said it was succesful and now.....no pics? Anyone? __________________ "How can you be so hypocritical to look down on a man who is honest enough to kill his own?" (Thanks MTH)
"The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma" "Patience is the key to success" |
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 3:49 PM | ||
|
Registered User, Sponsor |
Posts: 13030 Addicted to NJH:  Join Date: Oct 2005 |
|
mail them to me
wingshooter70@yahoo.com i'll post them here for u __________________  Git-R-Done
FREE RUGGIE     [spy ] |
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 4:06 PM | ||
|
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 4252 Monster Buck: Join Date: Jul 2007 |
|
I get on with the story..........For those of you who don't know, I shot a doe last night and jumped her.
I got about 2 hours total sleep last night. Was up way to early and got to mu hunting spot at about 6:30a.m. I found the spot where she went in and I jumped her and started to follow what was a very faint blood trail at first. Little did I knwo I would be heading into one of the most impenitrible jungles I have ever been in! I found some blood spots and statred to get on my hands and kness becayse it kept getting thicker and thicker. As I was crawling I was finding blood on the left side of the trail and not the right. She was rubbing on a few plants and spreading some blood. I soon came to a clearing after being on my hands and knees for two hours finding blood. I lose the trail in this clearing and circle for 30 min.'s On a hunch I take one of 2 trails down the hill and find her blood again. Again I was forced on my hands and knees due to the crazt vegitation. The blood seems to be flowing now pretty good on the left side. I have a pic of it and I will post. I'm getting psyched even though it is slow going finding, and crawling. It soon opens up into an open field and I see blood where she stopped to figure which way to go. It was pooled up and very dark blood. Again, I lose the trail .
I know circle for and hour and then grid the area and find NOTHING. Its as if she just stopped bleeding! By now its close to 1P.M. and it is HOT. I am so bummed and pissed off I start to wander around all the trails and areas to see if I see her or blood. I get nothing. It's 3 p.m. by the time I get back to the car, I think I sweat out all fluid from the past week. I am just bummed. That is by far the hardest deer I have ever tracked. She must have ran close to 350-400 yards. It was insane. I guess the Bears and Yotes have some food. I still have that pit in my stomach though. I hate that feeling. On the good side I found where some of the big boys live and some new trees to hang a stand on. I'll post pics when I figure it out.............hanks for your help guys and gals  __________________ "How can you be so hypocritical to look down on a man who is honest enough to kill his own?" (Thanks MTH)
"The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma" "Patience is the key to success" |
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 4:07 PM | ||
|
|
|
|
| sorry to hear | ||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 4:12 PM | ||
|
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 4252 Monster Buck: Join Date: Jul 2007 |
|
Email sent wingshooter __________________ "How can you be so hypocritical to look down on a man who is honest enough to kill his own?" (Thanks MTH)
"The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma" "Patience is the key to success" |
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 4:13 PM | ||
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 1120 Non Typical:  Join Date: Aug 2006 |
too bad sounds like you made a good effort though__________________  |
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 4:19 PM | ||
|
Registered User, Sponsor Currently Offline |
Posts: 1223 Non Typical: Join Date: Feb 2007 |
|
| Well it sounds like she didn't stop to bed down in the thickets and left for open areas, sounds like she may not be seriously hurt and will survive, just a hunch. | ||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 4:22 PM | ||
|
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 4252 Monster Buck: Join Date: Jul 2007 |
|
Actually I hope she does. I feel bad either way. Out of respect for the deer I wish I found her. __________________ "How can you be so hypocritical to look down on a man who is honest enough to kill his own?" (Thanks MTH)
"The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma" "Patience is the key to success" |
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 4:26 PM | ||
|
Registered User, Sponsor Currently Offline |
Posts: 7952 Addicted to NJH: Join Date: Mar 2005 |
|
Elusive - in all seriousness, you did a heck of job trying to track that deer for 8 hrs, which is better than probably 75% of most hunters. Alot would've given up after a couple hrs. Keep up the good work; you'll get one.
David __________________ NJ... Where fun comes to die!
|
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 4:27 PM | ||
|
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 4252 Monster Buck: Join Date: Jul 2007 |
Thanks Yoda, I know i'll get one, thats not a problem. Just never had such a troublesome deer __________________ "How can you be so hypocritical to look down on a man who is honest enough to kill his own?" (Thanks MTH)
"The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma" "Patience is the key to success" |
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 4:30 PM | ||
|
|
|
|
|
elusive, they grow tough deer up in them woods
|
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 4:32 PM | ||
|
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 4252 Monster Buck: Join Date: Jul 2007 |
|
Yeah, I found that out first hand Alot of food and healthy deer. __________________ "How can you be so hypocritical to look down on a man who is honest enough to kill his own?" (Thanks MTH)
"The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma" "Patience is the key to success" |
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 4:35 PM Last Edited By: BOWHUNTERCOP | ||
|
|
|
|
| elusive back in 2001, I hit a deer on the last day of the extended bow season, he was a least a 140" 8 pointer, he was near if not over 200lb. I watched that SOB run and fall, he went up on his back legs like a horse and slow fell to his right, 20 mins went by, no movement, all of a sudden he got up and walked off, I backed out and came back the next day, we searched for hours upon hours and came up empty | ||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 4:38 PM | ||
|
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 4252 Monster Buck: Join Date: Jul 2007 |
That sucks, sounded like a great deer too. There are some BIG deer up there if you find the right spot __________________ "How can you be so hypocritical to look down on a man who is honest enough to kill his own?" (Thanks MTH)
"The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma" "Patience is the key to success" |
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 4:41 PM | ||
|
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 4252 Monster Buck: Join Date: Jul 2007 |
|
http://www.newjerseyhunter.com/images/upload/jul07/63327019271400 ... __________________ "How can you be so hypocritical to look down on a man who is honest enough to kill his own?" (Thanks MTH)
"The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma" "Patience is the key to success" |
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 4:42 PM | ||
|
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 4252 Monster Buck: Join Date: Jul 2007 |
 Maybe that'll go? That the big Bear marking his territory, What crap The first thing I saw this morning.__________________ "How can you be so hypocritical to look down on a man who is honest enough to kill his own?" (Thanks MTH)
"The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma" "Patience is the key to success" |
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 4:47 PM | ||
|
Registered User |
Posts: 2745 Monster Buck: Join Date: Feb 2007 |
|
sorry to hear man.
good effort though. __________________ |
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 4:47 PM | ||
|
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 4252 Monster Buck: Join Date: Jul 2007 |
|
http://www.newjerseyhunter.com/images/upload/jul07/63327019375587 ...
Where I came from.....Thick!!! http://www.newjerseyhunter.com/images/upload/jul07/63327019411431 ... Where I was going......even thicker http://www.newjerseyhunter.com/images/upload/jul07/63327019449290 ... Blood just before I lost it in the opening.. http://www.newjerseyhunter.com/images/upload/jul07/63327019497743 ... If you look at the trees in the background, that where she entered the woods. Hang a 90 to the left about 75 yards where she entered, thats where I shot her. http://www.newjerseyhunter.com/images/upload/jul07/63327019591539 ... http://www.newjerseyhunter.com/images/upload/jul07/63327019617882 ... My arrow.......... http://www.newjerseyhunter.com/images/upload/jul07/63327019645789 ... http://www.newjerseyhunter.com/images/upload/jul07/63327019667054 ... __________________ "How can you be so hypocritical to look down on a man who is honest enough to kill his own?" (Thanks MTH)
"The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma" "Patience is the key to success" |
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 5:03 PM | ||
|
|
Registered User, Sponsor |
Posts: 13030 Addicted to NJH: Join Date: Oct 2005 |
|
getting the pics up as we speak __________________ Git-R-Done
FREE RUGGIE [spy] |
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 5:15 PM | ||
|
|
Registered User, Sponsor |
Posts: 13030 Addicted to NJH: Join Date: Oct 2005 |
|
ok your pics are in this thread
http://www.newjerseyhunter.com/article32437.htm mods could u guys close this one, as it should be directed to the one with the pics __________________ Git-R-Done
FREE RUGGIE [spy] |
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 6:04 PM | ||
|
Registered User, Sponsor Currently Offline |
Posts: 12955 Addicted to NJH: Join Date: Jan 2006 |
|
Too bad you didn't find her, but sounds like you did all you could. __________________ The government’s view of the economy: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it, and if it stops moving, subsidize it. ~Ronald Reagan
Am a non-hunter who is PRO hunting supporting what YOU like to do! NRA member NJOA supporter UXBNJ Secretary http://uxbnj.com/ UCBK, ACF member |
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 6:12 PM Last Edited By: telefante | ||
|
Registered User, Sponsor |
Posts: 3187 Monster Buck: Join Date: Jan 2007 |
|
Quote: This is how its done. When you lose blood you take logical routs and you will usually connect again. Deer even double back on their own trail to lose you - especially on light snow - or swing back off to the side to watch you track by and see if you are following them or if you are just a wandering human.
On a hunch I take one of 2 trails down the hill and find her blood again. Quote: That means that you are an ethical hunter and a good man. I still have that pit in my stomach though. I hate that feeling.
I bet that you learned alot today about deer and tracking. Those kind of days make us better hunters. __________________ Helping deer go up the food chain since 1979. 
REFORMED....PRO-SNAKER |
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 6:17 PM | ||
|
Registered User, Sponsor Currently Offline |
Posts: 13011 Addicted to NJH: Join Date: Dec 2005 |
|
You are getting more of an education and thats what counts.
Coyottes have to eat also so the animal didn't go to waste if it did die somewhere. So do the other animals and birds. Nature is harsh but also forgiving.
|
||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2007 7:14 PM | ||
|
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 4252 Monster Buck: Join Date: Jul 2007 |
|
You never stop learning
Thanks for the compliments guys and girls __________________ "How can you be so hypocritical to look down on a man who is honest enough to kill his own?" (Thanks MTH)
"The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma" "Patience is the key to success" |
||
| Posted: 04 Oct 2007 6:31 AM | ||
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 1192 Non Typical: Join Date: Mar 2005 |
|
|
sorry to hear the sad news Tom.You can take the day as a great learning experience though
|
||
| Posted: 04 Oct 2007 6:40 AM | ||
|
Warden, Sponsor |
Posts: 6021 Addicted to NJH: Join Date: Oct 2006 |
|
Sorry to hear Tom. You gave it your all and that's all you can do. __________________ |
||
| Posted: 04 Oct 2007 7:53 AM | ||
|
Warden, Sponsor Currently Offline |
Posts: 4912 Monster Buck: Join Date: Apr 2005 |
|
|
You get an E for effort. You did your best to search for her cough that one up and get back out there and try again it happens to all of us at least once. Sorry to hear the outcome was not in your favor. __________________ Member UBNJ
Weapons of Choice Bow - PSE FireStorm Lite Shotgun - Remington 1187 Future owner of a T/C Encore Need to find time to HUNT  ------> PRO STAFFER |
||
| Posted: 04 Oct 2007 9:09 AM | ||
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 2160 Non Typical: Join Date: Feb 2007 |
|
Given the sign on that arrow, and the blood on the plants-she was hit good. definately a fatal hit.
Was the pool that you found last smushed arround or was it like the deer just stood there bleeding-A smushed pool would indicate the deer bedded there and likely died-being carried away by a bear-If it was pooled as if the deer was standing-it could have very well clotted up after such a long bleed, and she kept bleading internally-clotting is often caused by broadheads that are no where near sharp enough-Make sure your broad heads are razor sharp.Even some new heads right out of the package aren't sharp enough! Its been two days, and last night never got below 60 degrees-Even if you find her now-its rotten meat. Chalk it up to a learning experience. But i realy hate waisting a deer __________________ Support the N.J.O.A. and the "Littel Amendment" An amendment to the New Jersey State Constitution that Guarantees the right to hunt, trap, and fish in New JerseyNew Jersey Outdoor Alliance
|
||
| Posted: 04 Oct 2007 10:47 AM | ||
|
Registered User Currently Offline |
Posts: 1011 Non Typical: Join Date: Sep 2006 |
|
| Yeah, that one picture of blood on the stalks was impressive and appears to be a crap load of blood. Too bad you were not able to retrieve, but I commend you for going to great lengths in trying to locate her. | ||
RSS 2.0
Atom 1.0
