Myths of Wounded Animal Behavior/Sign

Ya missed one,

When a buck is doing his business on a doe and you shoot him, he slowly slides off to the side in a humping kinda way. He was dead but the boy in him hung on for a few more minutes :) doe stood there wondering what now? :) I coulda shot her too if I had a tag for her.

Shot one was 30 ft away looking at me (I was in a large round bale of hay), jumped up hopped 3 times and dropped.

Shot one was running past me, he was hit in full stride, went down just like that legs stretched out as if he was still running.
 
Having hunted and taken quite a few deer, the only thing that I have found, is that if it is not a bang flop, is that they will always be located at the end of their tracks. :D
 
I bowshot a nice buck in which I thought I got a perfect heart/lung shot on. Reason I thought this other than the shot felt good was the reaction of the many heart/ lung bowshot deer I've killed. The deer bucked like a mule and ran off.

Blood trail was excessive with blood bright red. I'm thinking this deer is just over the ridge no more than 70-80 yds.

Waited my normal 60 mins. before trailing. Found deer about 150 yds from impact sight.

Wasn't a perfect heart shot but a perfect liver shot.:rolleyes:
 
I made a real bad bow shot on a doe this year, arrow deflected and hit her very low on the brisket She mule kicked and blatted ran a very small 1/2 circle stood 40 yards away looking right at me blowing and stomping her foot and finally walked off. I think the kick is a self defense reflex to kick whatever just struck them no matter where they were hit.
 
What happens when you shoot them between the eyes
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I put a 150 gr .277 bullet sorta between the eyes of a button buck running by me once ..... bullet went in behind the near eye and out the other eye (I think- it pretty much took the upper far side of the skull forward of the back of the orbit) .....the deer took one more leap and ran into a tree (couldn't see it coming, I guess) and fell down with the exit wound side down, and his legs kept churning like he was still going somewhere fast...... I walked over to him and not realizing I had already brained him, I shot him at the base of the skull with my pistol..... he stopped moving right then. ...... I flipped him over and saw he was pretty dead after the first one..... just needed some convincing.
 
I have found that given a lack of pressure a wounded elk will tend to move downhill. I don't know about the reliability of the rest of these, but a fella has to have some idea of where to go and what to do when the blood runs out. I have made poor shots and used the downhill trend to guide me successfully to an animal more often than not. Once again, putting no pressure on the wounded animal is the key to encouraging this behavior and it doesn't happen every time.
GAR
 
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I do have one that I have never seen proven wrong:

If you take out the brain stem, the animal always goes the same direction: Straight Down! ;)
 
I took a 12 hour hunters ed class.
The instructor said. "shot deer always go right", and he was serious.

he further said, "they turn around and go back the direction they came, then go right"
 
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I took a 12 hour hunters ed class.
The instructor said. "shot deer always go right", and he was serious.

he further said, "they turn around and go back the direction they came, then go right"
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I don't even know what to say to a claim like that except that anyone who would make such a claim and be teaching a hunting course should never be allowed to teach another one.

Just the other day, my uncle shot a large doe. It wheeled around and headed back where it came from for about 40, 50 yards then turned 90 degrees LEFT and went another 50 yards before dying.
 
I have often wondered...

If a gut-shot deer always runs to water...

And a chest shot deer always turns right, then runs down hill...

Which way does a stabbed, or bludgeoned deer run?
 
Its like the old saying about how you can always tell where a cowboy is headed next just by looking at his horse..............whichever way the horse's nose is pointing........thats the way he is going.
 
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