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Intersting find in my elk..
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<blockquote data-quote="isaaccarlson" data-source="post: 2660764" data-attributes="member: 33850"><p>I shot a whitetail a couple years ago with a crossbow. Back edge of the shoulder. She jumped straight up, landed, looked around, wagged her tail, and walked off with two full streams of bright red blood pouring out of her. It was like a red two lane highway. I have never seen blood pour out of anything like that in my life. I knew she was dead. She walked about 30 yards and tipped over against some brush. We waited another 45 minutes for another deer, but nothing came in so we went to get the doe. We got close and she jumped up and make it 20 yards into the woods and crashed again. We waited an hour and jumped her again. I went back early in the morning and tracked her through 5 more beds over a 1/3 mile before losing the trail when she got on a path with other deer. She showed up a few days later with a nice mark where the arrow went through and acted like nothing happened. Best I can figure is the arrow was a little dull (it was my friend's crossbow) and the body sensed trauma and released clotting hormone. She went down and had barely any blood left, but was able to clot and make some more blood before we jumped her. Then again, and then she had all night to heal and recover some strength. If we had grabbed her when she first went down, we would have found a barely beating heart when we gutted her and she would have died during that process. It was weird and I am glad we didn't get to gut her alive. It would have ruined it for me. Critters are tougher than we think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="isaaccarlson, post: 2660764, member: 33850"] I shot a whitetail a couple years ago with a crossbow. Back edge of the shoulder. She jumped straight up, landed, looked around, wagged her tail, and walked off with two full streams of bright red blood pouring out of her. It was like a red two lane highway. I have never seen blood pour out of anything like that in my life. I knew she was dead. She walked about 30 yards and tipped over against some brush. We waited another 45 minutes for another deer, but nothing came in so we went to get the doe. We got close and she jumped up and make it 20 yards into the woods and crashed again. We waited an hour and jumped her again. I went back early in the morning and tracked her through 5 more beds over a 1/3 mile before losing the trail when she got on a path with other deer. She showed up a few days later with a nice mark where the arrow went through and acted like nothing happened. Best I can figure is the arrow was a little dull (it was my friend's crossbow) and the body sensed trauma and released clotting hormone. She went down and had barely any blood left, but was able to clot and make some more blood before we jumped her. Then again, and then she had all night to heal and recover some strength. If we had grabbed her when she first went down, we would have found a barely beating heart when we gutted her and she would have died during that process. It was weird and I am glad we didn't get to gut her alive. It would have ruined it for me. Critters are tougher than we think. [/QUOTE]
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