Post by: HntnFsh on December 10, 2013, 07:03:52 PM
Post by: dreamunelk on December 10, 2013, 07:09:22 PM
Post by: HntnFsh on December 10, 2013, 07:37:01 PM
Post by: dreamunelk on December 10, 2013, 07:50:39 PM
Post by: KFhunter on December 10, 2013, 07:54:38 PM
Post by: dreamunelk on December 10, 2013, 07:59:10 PM
or could have jabbed a stick up its nose :chuckle:
Yes, another possibility!
Post by: dbfalls on December 10, 2013, 08:17:52 PM
Post by: Come Get Some on December 11, 2013, 06:20:02 AM
Post by: coachcw on December 11, 2013, 06:27:50 AM
Post by: Buzz2401 on December 11, 2013, 06:44:34 AM
Post by: jackmaster on December 11, 2013, 06:54:25 AM
Sure it was blood and wasn't just a cow spotting, kinda late but never know.:yeah: 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 :dunno:
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on December 11, 2013, 06:58:40 AM
Post by: rtspring on December 11, 2013, 06:59:24 AM
Like Doc said! " grab some water bottles and snacks, we got tracking to do""
:stirthepot:
Post by: LndShrk on December 11, 2013, 07:13:36 AM
:cue:
Post by: jackmaster on December 11, 2013, 07:19:29 AM
Sounds like your dwn South :dunno: 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...."
Post by: suga on December 11, 2013, 07:23:38 AM
Sounds like your dwn South :dunno: Hoof Rot !!!!!!:yeah: X2
Post by: D-Rock425 on December 11, 2013, 07:31:29 AM
Come on! We all know it was stuck by one of those lousy bow hunters that wound animals. :chuckle:. Or maybe it was one of those shoot first ask questions later rifle hunters that shot a 2pt in a 3pt min area and just walked away. Hmm I've heard this story before :stirthepot:
Like Doc said! " grab some water bottles and snacks, we got tracking to do""
:stirthepot:
Post by: h20hunter on December 11, 2013, 07:39:20 AM
Post by: HntnFsh on December 11, 2013, 07:44:38 AM
What I found odd was the sprayed blood. Didnt know if a lung injury could do that. But seems likely to me. This isn't about bashing bow hunters or muzzy hunters. Its about what could cause the blood pattern.
The info about how much and how fast an elk could make blood is interesting. Also the encapsulated arrow. Looks like elk can lose a lot of blood without too much threat of it being lethal.
The blood in the spray was definitely a lighter color. So good possibility of lungs.
Post by: h20hunter on December 11, 2013, 07:53:02 AM
Post by: leonpeon2 on December 11, 2013, 06:09:08 PM
Another friend, had stuck a elk but it only wounded it so the next day i found what i thought was its tracks with blood. followed the bloody print threw some thick and thin stuff. never found the elk.
Later to find out that if the blood is in the print then its hoof rot. If it was hurt there wouldn't be blood necessary in the print itself it would be around it.
something i learned on monday from another avid elk hunter.
Post by: rackattack on December 11, 2013, 06:19:47 PM
Post by: littlemac on December 11, 2013, 06:28:16 PM
Tracked a muzzy bull years ago in the snow that would spray blood every so often, then just drips here an there. Found out he had been hit in the neck, a few days beforehand, and the spray was from him shaking his head and the blood in the neck hair would go everywhere.
Shaking a wound would show the red blood, lung shot would definitely show the pinker shade although I imagine is may be hard to see a differrence in snow depending on how warm it is out.
Pretty good on the different scenarios though, most all are possibilities.
Post by: fishhuntconsume on December 11, 2013, 08:12:42 PM
Post by: MLBowhunting on December 11, 2013, 08:19:21 PM
Post by: jackelope on December 11, 2013, 08:26:26 PM
Sounds like your dwn South :dunno: Hoof Rot !!!!!!
This.
Post by: crschralping on December 11, 2013, 08:30:34 PM
Post by: HntnFsh on December 12, 2013, 05:38:07 AM
Ive found blood in elk trails a few times. I think mostly because of hoof rot or cows dripping a little. Ive never seen anything like the spray. But Ive only hunted elk in the snow a couple times. That would probably be the only time a person would notice it cause of the contrast on the snow.
Post by: PlateauNDN on December 12, 2013, 10:04:30 PM
Post by: sled on December 18, 2013, 09:02:44 PM
Did it look like this????? That Looks Like Pee To me. :dunno:
Post by: PlateauNDN on December 19, 2013, 03:27:30 PM
Did it look like this????? That Looks Like Pee To me. :dunno:
It varied in light and dark orange to light and dark red as I tracked it. I was in the area the day before when a fresh layer of powder came down and didn't see anything like this and then the next day at least 15-20 different spots all similar in size on the same set of tracks i followed all day. :dunno: Who knows, I never found anything so pee or bad shot placement whatever left it is still alive as of that day.