Blood trailing in the rain

[WSU]

Good deal! Where did you hit it?

[blackveltbowhunter]

Way to go! tup:  Way to stick with it until you knew you gave full effort! Congrats!

[dilleytech]

Rotten meat is not meat I care to find.

Unless you’re shooting deer in September most deer that die by liver shot are going to live 8-12 hours. You wait to find them you’ll actually find them, and they’ll be expired a short amount of time and meat will not be spoil. Even in September, if you shoot them in the evening and wait till morning they’re still going to be good. Rushing to track a liver/gut shot animal is almost always going to end in not recovering an animal.

Every animal I have shot in the liver died within 10 minutes and didn’t go more than 60 yards. They bleed out very fast from a liver hit. Unless you barely scratch it or something.

[WSU]

Rotten meat is not meat I care to find.

Unless you’re shooting deer in September most deer that die by liver shot are going to live 8-12 hours. You wait to find them you’ll actually find them, and they’ll be expired a short amount of time and meat will not be spoil. Even in September, if you shoot them in the evening and wait till morning they’re still going to be good. Rushing to track a liver/gut shot animal is almost always going to end in not recovering an animal.

Every animal I have shot in the liver died within 10 minutes and didn’t go more than 60 yards. They bleed out very fast from a liver hit. Unless you barely scratch it or something.

I shot a bull once in the liver with a muzzleloader and finished it off about 6 hours and a mile later.

[Feathernfurr]

Rotten meat is not meat I care to find.

Unless you’re shooting deer in September most deer that die by liver shot are going to live 8-12 hours. You wait to find them you’ll actually find them, and they’ll be expired a short amount of time and meat will not be spoil. Even in September, if you shoot them in the evening and wait till morning they’re still going to be good. Rushing to track a liver/gut shot animal is almost always going to end in not recovering an animal.

Every animal I have shot in the liver died within 10 minutes and didn’t go more than 60 yards. They bleed out very fast from a liver hit. Unless you barely scratch it or something.

I shot a bull once in the liver with a muzzleloader and finished it off about 6 hours and a mile later.

I’ve killed multiple elk and deer with 1 lung and center punched liver, with big mechanical and fixed broadheads. The farthest one has taken it 950 yards. Liver is not a quick death unless you clip a large artery with it. They will carry it 150-200 yards and bed and die.

[kodiak06]

Rotten meat is not meat I care to find.

Unless you’re shooting deer in September most deer that die by liver shot are going to live 8-12 hours. You wait to find them you’ll actually find them, and they’ll be expired a short amount of time and meat will not be spoil. Even in September, if you shoot them in the evening and wait till morning they’re still going to be good. Rushing to track a liver/gut shot animal is almost always going to end in not recovering an animal.

Every elk and deer we've hit in the liver have died in less than an hour. My sons bull this year was dead 40min after the shot when we found him.