What do you think is up with this elk?

[HntnFsh]

 Cut some track in the snow today. On the road. Noticed a drop of blood with almost every step on one set. Sometimes just a small drop. Sometimes dime to 1/4 size. Found 2 spots that were about 18 inches wide and 3 to 4 feet long that looked like it sneezed and sprayed blood over that area. Like a light mist. Tracked these elk for at least 2 miles and found the same dime to quarter size blood drops pretty regular. Then they lost me in a swamp. I think it may have an arrow in it that is causing it to bleed. maybe cut a lung or something causing it to sneeze out the blood in the spray pattern I saw. Does that sound reasonable. Never seen anything like it before.

[dreamunelk]

Sounds like a reasonable hypothesis.  Could be many things but, if it is in a late archery area than it is very probable.  However, with out the facts it is just a best guess.

[HntnFsh]

It is in an archery unit. Also open for muzzy tag holders.

[dreamunelk]

Then we could also say possible muzzy wound. 

[KFhunter]

or could have jabbed a stick up its nose 

[dreamunelk]

or could have jabbed a stick up its nose 

Yes, another possibility!

[dbfalls]

Lung blood is light pink in color and frothy looking it's not lung blood. Years ago I had a small limb deflect my shot, the deer was quartering toward me. I hit her in the nose and it went out her left cheek and that's how she bleed for miles. Never found her but I'm sure she died. Only one I ever lost in the 40+ years of bow hunting.

[Come Get Some]

There are many options here. I had a friend of mine in Montana shoot an elk broadside. He recovered half of his arrow . Tracked the elk for miles and never found it. The next year he packed in on horse back to the same area. Hunted the same ridge. Called a nice 6 point bull in and killed it. When he gutted it he found the front half of his arrow from the previous year encapsolated in 1 lung. Yes the elk lived all year with 1 lung and was breeding the next year. They are amazing. Elk have an ounce of blood per pound of body weight and are one of the fastest blood producing animals we hunt .

[coachcw]

this time of year i'd say a wound from a hunter , early season possibly another bull.

[Buzz2401]

Sure it was blood and wasn't just a cow spotting, kinda late but never know.

[jackmaster]

Sure it was blood and wasn't just a cow spotting, kinda late but never know.

or a miss carriage, blood runs down their rear and they shake much like a dog, it generally will look more like a dark peach color, not a urine color and is ofton occompanied by blood, the sneezing part is what gets me, if its actual blood spatter from a sneeze then i would also have to say a lung but generally that blood is alot pinker and frothy 

[BOWHUNTER45]

Sounds like your dwn South    Hoof Rot !!!!!!

[rtspring]

Come on! We all know it was stuck by one of those lousy bow hunters that wound animals.

Like Doc said! " grab some water bottles and snacks, we got tracking to do""

 

[LndShrk]

It was either a Pitbull or Wolf.


 

[jackmaster]

Sounds like your dwn South    Hoof Rot !!!!!!

thats a good possiblity there bowhunter. i havent seen it but i have heard that when the snow fly and your in a place with a bad hoof rott problem, that you see blood trails from their feet all over..... what a sickening disease, i wish they would get it figured out. not to jump off thread here but i bet "THEY" use this as an oppurtunity to help the wolf recovery plan. i can see it now." wolves brought in to help fight the hoof rott epidemic...."