Deer tracking procedure....

[boneaddict]

I honestly think, and I'm not being a jerkwad here, if you have a double lung on a deer and it lives that long and runs that far, your buddy should look into better broadheads or something.  Its not like a good passthrough both lungs with a good broadhead SHOULD collapse both lungs and do enough damage to kill the thing well before thirty minutes.  No air equals unconcious and death in short order.  If yo uare high and to the back, you can pass through a pocket of nothing and get good blood only to have thedeer or elk heal up for you, but a double lung should equal instant death. I'd be curious as to what broadhead he is using....expandables that didn't open.....IDK something is totally wrong with that scenario.

[Fesup]

I find around here no matter how good the shot. they take two steps around this jack fir. and its a bitch to find. good tracking is always a plus. But thats another point while your head is down make sure your aware of your location . ya get into those jack firs and its easy to get turned around.

[Palmer]

I honestly think, and I'm not being a jerkwad here, if you have a double lung on a deer and it lives that long and runs that far, your buddy should look into better broadheads or something.  Its not like a good passthrough both lungs with a good broadhead SHOULD collapse both lungs and do enough damage to kill the thing well before thirty minutes.  No air equals unconcious and death in short order.  If yo uare high and to the back, you can pass through a pocket of nothing and get good blood only to have thedeer or elk heal up for you, but a double lung should equal instant death. I'd be curious as to what broadhead he is using....expandables that didn't open.....IDK something is totally wrong with that scenario.

I agree.  A double lung shot is going to put an animal down evertime or else you missed the lungs.

[sneakyjake]

I just shot a monster doe from 40 yards last week.   She was quartering away and down hill so I held the pin low and made a good shot.  It was raining and I was going downhill on one of those fern mounds with 30 year regrowth.  She went straight down hill and I lost sight of her.  I gave her 15 and went to check the hit site.  Her tracks were obvious and she left a dark blood trail with some bubbles.  I figured a single lung hit with the liver.  I held back for 30 minutes, I would usually wait an hour but it was getting dark and it was raining.  I tracked her blood for 50 yards and then it just stopped.  I followed fresh (dry) tracks in 4 different directions for the next 2 hours.  I couldn't figure out which way she went and after I went back to the last blood I found it had washed off in the rain.  I had about given up to go get help, I new there is no way she is going to live with that kind of hit.  At the last moment I went back and checked under the fern and sure enough I found dried blood.  It put me in the right direction and she was only 40 yards from there.  40 yards/ 2 hours, go figure.  The shot was exactly as I thought and she went exactly where you would expect her to go.  It was the hardest tracking job I have encountered after tracking two dozen archery deer.  Don't give up and use all your resources.

[coonhound]

One lung can leave a ton of time to cover significant ground, my buck this year was only one lung and i tracked him about 1 mile. Lucky for me I had snow on the ground, I was pretty discussted with my shot but it all came out OK.

Coon