I'm sorry but u should of tried to kill the deer... they are built to survive... sad it had to be watched by a stupid drone.. unacceptable and I am a tracker myself....
@@Derrek4Real Drone seemed to work very well though. A dog only tracker would have just pushed it out immediately obviously. Either way the buck was not recovered so there's that. In my state, N.H., drones are 100% illegal in the field.
Poor deer, the absolute worst thing a hunter can experience is knowing the fact that the animal you shot is now suffering. As a hunter this one tears me up.
No, I am not blaming the hunter, He done everything he could have possibly done to retrieve this deer but sometimes it goes that way. Fact is I sympathize with him as I know he feels horrible. @@SixSnax
A quartering away pass through exiting the opposite shoulder mid body is not a bad shot. I have taken many deer successfully on shots far worse than that. I've also lost a couple on shots far better. That's just bowhunting. It's a difficult sport, and sometimes the animals are just that tough. This hunter went above and beyond to recover the animal. Respect.
The price of using a bow, for the puller & the animal. No denial less effective weapons require more luck or application, sometimes skill. Choosing to stick to rifles as the animals deserve better doesn't prevent losing some, particularly if tallies are the objective. & have lost them shot probably in a similar spot with a rifle, & being incapable of tracking far enough. That getting up again once disturbed make them hard to get, & in this case putting the drone in close might have been a mistake in hindsight. It happens.
I used to do a lot of hunting, killed a lot of things, but the older I get and the closer I get to death myself I’ve lost the desire to hunt, I feel more empowered letting things live.
I agree 100%. I hunted all over the country for 40 years, and have killed and wounded my share of game. The older I got I just didn't have the heart to end somethings life, or worse yet, wound something and know it was out there suffering because of me. I've sold off all of my guns and bows and will never kill an animal again for sport. Some of my best memories in life are from hunting camp with family and friends, some of my worst memories in life come from doing stupid things as a younger man while hunting.
I am 69, have been hunting Whitetails for 50 yrs straight now and will hopefully continue to do so for at least another 10 years or more. I love the activity and the chase and do respect how truly magnificent the animals are, plus continue to live eating venison! I keep hearing hunters talk about losing the desire as they age and can only hope that my continued interest and pursuit of Whitetails as I age, truly keeps me going into my 80’s. God bless you all!
@@TerryKogowski It goes off like a Light switch. Really cant explain it . I hunted & loved it since I was a teenager , Long Bow, Rifle and shotgun.. I have not hunted in years now .. Only dispose of Groundhogs regularly and put a Sick Raccoon out of its misery .. Wont even hunt Birds any more . NRA member for life and still love target Shooting and the smell of Gunpowder , and grouping those Shots on Paper, but I refuse to kill for no reason. Anyone who enjoys it is Fine with me .. but I know several guys in my Age group and we just FISH now .. Way more Peaceful and relaxing , but I do miss the Exercise . I would walk for many miles every day .
Exactly! Not a bad shot at all, quartering to or quartering away. Bright red lung blood too. I read an article in North American whitetail where a hunter in Kansas made a perfect shot on a 200” deer only to find out that the buck had lived its entire life on one lung, and the lung that wasn’t functioning was the lung that the hunter punctured. Deer went 3 miles before it expired.
The shot was near perfect..The problem is he mostly missed the deer's left lung...and they can even sometimes survive on one lung.. Had the deer been more broadside he most likely wouldn't had made it more than 100 yds.
@bloodtrackingdogsllc "bad shot placement?" Possibly high but right where most guys shoot and kill deer. The angle was definitely fine. Just a fluke thing and some of these beasts just don't wanna die😅. Thermal imaging is way cool though, Btw. I bet you are a life saver to many hunters. I've killed many deer with a bow and one i didn't recover still haunts me. Giant and didn't get much of blood trail. I shot slightly back and didn't get pass through which never really happens to me. Biggest problem, he went into an insane jungle thick area, little blood. Waited until next day to even start looking, rained that afternoon as I remember. I needed your dogs or cameras.
Great video, and great effort by the hunter. This is one of those situations where none of us wants to be in. I'm a hunter as well. I'd rather missed, then to injured them, and lose them.
But when someone does something like this to the animal, he or she will be haunted and punished by God as well as by the animal. 😅😅. It's better not to hunt at all. We all can get along 😅😅
I have been nauseated over not finding deer before and I know it happens to the best of us. I only hope the hunter did everything they could to make a perfect shot and compensated for the deer jumping the string because that shot seemed awfully high. I was surprised the deer survived twenty-six hours with that kind of blood loss. Thank you, for showing the split-screen, it was very insightful. Most drone recovery videos only show infrared.
@banjohappy correct a thermal camera uses infrared technology to create thermal images but a thermal camera and infrared camera are two different things. An infrared camera is basically just night vision while a thermal gives you a hot cold image
Im a deer hunter myself and i understand how it goes sometimes . Good video, but that that made me feel bad for that big boy . They are amazing the survival skills they have after being hit.
Same. Hard to see it like that. Everything wants to live. The thing is that shot wasn’t really bad. it wasn’t high really and had an exit that should have hit at least a lung… such strong animals
For those that think hunting is inhumane you have no idea. Letting these animals live till old age where they either starve or when a predator rips them apart while alive is far worse. Ive seen coyote, wolves, and bears work on critters and its plainly awful in the worst kind of agony.
Back when I was a kid someone shot my dog exactly how this deer is hit , I didn't know how he was alive but I took him to the vet and he said that lungs expand and contract in manner that when the shot went through it missed his vitals because his lungs were contracted this is a lot more blood because that broadopened opened a huge wound channel, this seems to align with what i experienced maybe the hunter reads this it's just one of those 1 in a million bad luck ordeals the vet told me that was the odds of that ever happening again...
I'm a bow hunter and with that much blood based on this video, how do they Not recover this deer? I've hit some under brush one time and the arrow didn't hit the heart but edge of the lung and we found it the next day after it travelled 1.5 miles, simple blood trailing, when we found it, it was still alive but laid its head down when we walked up and passed away. It had less than 5 cups of blood left in the body. So i find it hard that this deer was not recovered based on the film. That or they didn't try very hard. Sorry to say but come on.
My friend had this happen in the late 90's Bow hunting on a doe. We tracked it for a half a mile never found it. During rifle hunting, over a month later the deer was harvested. On the in side of the chest cavity was the shaft of the arrow. Should have been a double lung shot. Fat had grown around each end of the shaft of the arrow. White tail have 9 lives sometimes!
So what do y’all think happened? Double lung shot. I killed a doe once w/ a rage that didn’t open. She died in sixty yards. Was it a failure to open? Possibly a narrow single bevel? What happened?
The arrow was not recovered. It was shot from a ground blind. The entry is the right side, exit left side. The hunter felt and said he hit high. Unless the camera angle is deceiving the right side entry doesn’t look all that high. It was tracked a mile to this point with only 1 known wound bed, that you saw. Based on the entry and exit wounds and what we know, it’s a one lung hit. It was a mechanical broad-head, since we don’t have the arrow, we don’t know if it failed to completely deploy or not. Everything indicates this deer will expire. We have no updates to this point.
It appears to be one lung and liver shot from the angle, which is an eventual dead deer, but it's amazing that it lasted 26+ hours and was never recovered. They are resilient animals!
@@alexmacdonald6515I was looking at the right side, assuming, exit hole, which looks to be behind the lung, which the liver is right there. However, after 26 hours, I don't know.
What state was this in? Just curious since some states don't allow drones to be used even for recovery. Looks like the buck was hit in one lung. They can live a long time with a single lung hit. sadly it will eventually most likely die. It's all part of hunting.
I wish there could be more research and conversation around pushing a one lung hit deer. There’s a lot of good arguments out there of how pushing one lung deer has a higher rate of recovery.
Lot of hate in these comments from people that either don’t hunt or need an 8’ ladder to get atop their horse…these things happen on occasion unfortunately….
More important to make sure when u release the arrow, u have high confidence it goes into kill zone, not just getting a shoot at big buck. That should be his buck for year in that state
Looks like a high shot between the lungs and the spine but not enough to clip the spine or anything super vital that’s why he lived. He clotted and slowly stopped throwing blood. Threw the boiler room with a gap like that he’d have went maybe a 1/4 mile tops I’ve wiffed shots too
There is no such thing as above lungs and below spine. Plenty of content out there to prove it. This was almost certainly a single near side lung hit deer. Way too much blood to have not hit a lung.
Great Video, Not to blow by the whole point of the video, but would you mind sharing what kind of drone that is? Mine is not near that clear or can zoom that well?
One-lunged him. Hit too far forward and just caught the upper front corner of the near lung. A one-lunged deer can easily live 24-48 hours, and might even recover, although its unlikely.
@ericlaird5149 not sure what you're trying to say there, but if he only got one lung, then the hit was too far forward. If it had been 6-8" further back it would've caught both lungs.
@@tracyelsinger1088no, then he would have missed the entrance lung. The exit was at the shoulder blade or vital V area. Have you had a doctor listen to your lungs? The 1st place they listen to (auscultate) is the area between your neck & shoulders or upper traps area. WHY? Because that is where the "lung apices" are. Google it .
@frbrbrgrblgrr7777 it's still a double lung shot. The lungs expand the entire chest cavity. Sometimes blood mixed with foreign debre clots and seals the lungs enough to keep them going tho. *Edit blood clotting is more common on high lung shots tho I will say.
Quarter to shots aren’t the best. Usually you’re only catching one lung because of the angle but that sure does look like a kill shot to me. Hope the BH didn’t fail
The shot looked good with an exit wound. A friend of mine shot a buck perfectly through both lungs broad side at 15 yards, he had a used broadhead that was dull. Never found it
Was it shot from a ground blind? Not much of an angle from entry to exit hole. Can i ask what state? I've heard of tree lines, property lines, shelter belts, but hedge rows not so much. Learn something new every day! A whitetails will to live is unbelievable!
We have hedge rows all over the place here in the Midwest (Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, etc), figured everyone had them. Many decades ago farmers would plant hedge trees (Osage orange) on their property boundaries as a relatively low cost way to fence in cattle etc. Sometimes the trees themselves were dense enough to contain the animals, other times they served as living posts for barbed wire or mesh. Many of those old hedgerows have been dozed out, but you still see a lot of them.
I shot a lg buck 4 years abo that had 2 different broadheads burried in the interior scapula area encapsulated in cartillage type material. Impressive survivability on those animals
@@shitsngiggles8371 I've not had any issues in 20+ years thankfully. But I bowhunt how I feel it should be done. 25 yards and in. If you want to shoot further just use a gun since it works better. Bowhunting is supposed to be a "getting close" persuit.
@@shitsngiggles8371 haha yeah, you sure got me there.....I'll invite you to my house so you can take a look around at my taxidermy collection and feel stupid for that comment.
I hunt from the ground a lot. I've made nearly that same shot on probably a dozen deer that fell over dead within fifty yards. Some of 'em are just tougher than others. Cool video!
I think the entrance was a little too far forward and it missed the liver and only caught the near lung and not the back side one. A broadside shot and it’s laying 50 yds away dead. But bc of the angle he shoulda been back 2-3 inches maybe on the entrance of course.That’s all I can think of bc I’m shocked too that it was still alive the next morning.
Virtually all deer other than taken by hunters or cars will be eaten alive by predators either when young or old. There is no retirement home for them...still this was a strange outcome, I wonder if the hunter was using a cheap broadhead that broke or ?? Most deer with what appears to have been a good shot will be lights out very quickly.
Not hating on archery hunting, but for this and other reasons I hunt with rifle exclusively. The damage inflicted is much more likely to be fatal. Just like with archery though, mistakes can happen. Training and care for your equipment is crucial to success in the field. I hope that deer fully recovered. Magnificent creatures.
There is no dead zone above the lungs and below the spine. It was almost certainly hit above the spine... even though at first glance it looks like it was hit below. For what it's worth, I'm a veterinarian and a hunter.
@glasstactical3566 there is a good 3-4" of muscle above the spine between the shoulder blades on a big buck. That said, I do think this shot hit below the spine. There is no dead zone there, but it's possible to just clip one or both lungs without killing the deer quickly.
@@glasstactical3566 I guess the vet should of said spinal cord. What you feel when you run you hand down a deers back is the spinous process or vertebrae. They protrude upward from the spinal cord which sets lowers. The spinous process are shorter towards the rear of the deer, a couple inches long, and can be as long as 6” long in the deers neck. So when people say, above the spine, they mean above the spinal cord. Which happens all the time. I have a video on spinal shock. When this happens it is almost always a hit to the spinous process, or vertebrae. At the top of the deers back. If you transect the spinal cord, the deer isn’t going anywhere.
This is one of those times when pressuring a deer into an open field to take another shot may have been a better solution. Never understood the idealogy to let the deer sit somewhere overnight. If you know where an animal is get a couple of buddies and go get the deer.
Holy smokes these brutes are tough. The will to live is strong in most things. This is tough one, looked like a great shot. Just bad luck for all involved, especially the deer. He was beautiful!!! Sorry to the hunter!! Coyotes thank you I'm sure
He didn't go to water so he might and went out to the corn to possibly feed so if it doesn't pass that evening near by he will potentially survive. They are tough sobs, I've seen them get hit by cars and run off. Also seen them run into moving cars and take off.
It would amaze people to know how truly hearty these animals are. Think about what they go through just in their habitat to survive. Dogs coyotes wolves bobcats and bears all trying to eat them. Then man and the cars/trucks on the roads. I’ve hunted for many decades seen some crazy stuff the deer have survived through. From a buck at a butcher having 4 broad heads and eleven .22 bullets in it was finally taken with a shotgun I think. To a buck I shot double longed that went 2 miles into the swamp and when I finally found him he was still alive but had packed the wound with mud! Most incredible think I’ve ever seen. Killed another that had a abscessed in the chest and when my dad seen it looked at my mom and said that Deer looks real familiar. It was the one he had shot out with a bowl a month before. As a hunter all of us do our best to make it to quick N clean kill. It makes a huge difference in the taste of the meat and of course is the humane thing to do. If it does succumb to this wound it will not go to waste one of those critters I mentioned before will consume it.
Amazing footage, what was the Drone and thermal imaging setup? didn't see it in the previous comments. I've never seen such excellent overlay footage from a civilian rig, this would be excellent for search and rescue.
I lost one a week ago. Tracked it for 8 hours and well over a mile. Probably the worst feeling I've ever had as a hunter. I've hunted archery for 15 years and it was the first time I've put a arrow in a deer and didn't recover it. It's unfortunately part of hunting.
@@FloydofOz ,. Not always,. If u spook ‘em ,. For ex; u place not so good shot, u are so excited, u wait 5min instead of 30-1hour,. Upon starting to search for the deer, u jump ‘em bak up and it will run a dam country mile,. Shot placement is key folks,. A well placed shot to the lil white patch on neck will sevre spine, they drop rite there,. Most ppl are taught to hit the shoulder, that is so the hunter will learn to track, blood trails,. I feel it to be more humane to place shot under chin(white patch on neck) they dont get bak up fr that,. Ive been hunting close to 40yr,. And have seen some gruesome shit while hunting,. Had a kid one year gut shoot a buck on property( his dads fault for not teaching him better) anyways the deer lived but the following spring had to be euthanized due to guts were hangin out about 2ft. All green and infected looking. All because that kids dad had taught him,”as soon as u see hair SHOOT” a real knucklehead,. The assholes lived quarter mile from me,. So on mult occasions i had to humanly put down their screwups,. No Joke! Theres ppl out there hunting that dam stupid,. If u try to teach them better, end up an argument,. Because whatever u try to show them they have done it 10 times better,. We all know the type rite?🙄,.
A wounded animal lost is a hunters shame , Or should be , This is why bowhunting is not a noble sport , Its inferior as its more difficult , therefore creating more issues like this , a Perfect kill is dropped on the spot , and is a perfection every hunter should strive for . The right gun with the right load at the right range which has been created by the right tactics . espicable
Looks like it was high in the no mans land area and shot from the ground. Got a bit of the right lung it seems, deer probably lived but certainly is not going to be running any marathons or chasing many does.
@@deerdogsanddronesI just found your channel. This video made me subscribe. I’m impressed at your drive to help hunters retrieve their game. What kind of drone is this? I’ve never seen a drone used to track deer. Excellent job👍
I shot a deer with an arrow. The deer heard the bow string,over and the arrow went through the eye and the broadhead was sticking out the back of the skull. The deer ran half mile before dying.
Some of those bucks are so tough. I hate it for the hunter and the deer. My son shot a big one last year and that deer ran for ever. We tracked him and put two more holes in him. Finally put him down in a crick. Took three more shots and he finally died. Stuff like this makes it difficult to be a hunter. Nothing worse than anything suffering.
Burns us all up to see this animal suffer like that. They are resilient. He may have lived. But we know it was not intentional by the hunter as he made a solid effort to recover him.
Oh man. Thats heartbreaking to see the old buck still kicking for so long. I can't imagine not getting an ethical shot. I know it happens but i can't imagine how hard it hurts to wound one and not have it drop quickly after. Fingers crossed i never know
Too bad for the hunter...
What kind of douchebag takes the quartering away shot
I'm sorry but u should of tried to kill the deer... they are built to survive... sad it had to be watched by a stupid drone.. unacceptable and I am a tracker myself....
Shet, too bad for the deer. Too bad for the hunter?
@@Derrek4Real Drone seemed to work very well though. A dog only tracker would have just pushed it out immediately obviously. Either way the buck was not recovered so there's that. In my state, N.H., drones are 100% illegal in the field.
@@jeffhays1968yea it watched the animal sit and suffer awful if u ask me....
Poor deer, the absolute worst thing a hunter can experience is knowing the fact that the animal you shot is now suffering. As a hunter this one tears me up.
@@SixSnaxwhat if it was on a neighboring property? And animals are neither guilty nor innocent.
That deer could very well still be alive. If it lived 24hours it most likely made it
No, I am not blaming the hunter, He done everything he could have possibly done to retrieve this deer but sometimes it goes that way. Fact is I sympathize with him as I know he feels horrible. @@SixSnax
@@patervin9019 long as an infection doesn’t get him
I have seen shots like that heal ???? Believe it or not !!! A few times now !!! Under the spine above the lungs !!!
Wow….I’m a hunter but this is actually really sad….feel horrible for the deer….it’s amazing how tough they are
It’s the music that made you feel that way.
I've had this happen and also saw deer I thought was a poor shot go 10 yards and kill over. Nature is strange at times.
Same. Horrible
@loganisabell7879 nah i dont like knowin an animal didnt die quickly..music or not
@@StealthTRD that’s part of the game of being a deer hunter. That’s y this sport isn’t for everyone.
A quartering away pass through exiting the opposite shoulder mid body is not a bad shot. I have taken many deer successfully on shots far worse than that. I've also lost a couple on shots far better. That's just bowhunting. It's a difficult sport, and sometimes the animals are just that tough. This hunter went above and beyond to recover the animal. Respect.
The price of using a bow, for the puller & the animal. No denial less effective weapons require more luck or application, sometimes skill. Choosing to stick to rifles as the animals deserve better doesn't prevent losing some, particularly if tallies are the objective. & have lost them shot probably in a similar spot with a rifle, & being incapable of tracking far enough. That getting up again once disturbed make them hard to get, & in this case putting the drone in close might have been a mistake in hindsight. It happens.
I used to do a lot of hunting, killed a lot of things, but the older I get and the closer I get to death myself I’ve lost the desire to hunt, I feel more empowered letting things live.
I agree 100%. I hunted all over the country for 40 years, and have killed and wounded my share of game. The older I got I just didn't have the heart to end somethings life, or worse yet, wound something and know it was out there suffering because of me. I've sold off all of my guns and bows and will never kill an animal again for sport. Some of my best memories in life are from hunting camp with family and friends, some of my worst memories in life come from doing stupid things as a younger man while hunting.
The older we get, the more we realize our own mortality.
I am 69, have been hunting Whitetails for 50 yrs straight now and will hopefully continue to do so for at least another 10 years or more. I love the activity and the chase and do respect how truly magnificent the animals are, plus continue to live eating venison!
I keep hearing hunters talk about losing the desire as they age and can only hope that my continued interest and pursuit of Whitetails as I age, truly keeps me going into my 80’s.
God bless you all!
@@TerryKogowski It goes off like a Light switch. Really cant explain it . I hunted & loved it since I was a teenager , Long Bow, Rifle and shotgun.. I have not hunted in years now .. Only dispose of Groundhogs regularly and put a Sick Raccoon out of its misery .. Wont even hunt Birds any more . NRA member for life and still love target Shooting and the smell of Gunpowder , and grouping those Shots on Paper, but I refuse to kill for no reason. Anyone who enjoys it is Fine with me .. but I know several guys in my Age group and we just FISH now .. Way more Peaceful and relaxing , but I do miss the Exercise . I would walk for many miles every day .
Your not the only one I feel the same I let my grandchildren do most of the hunting I just enjoy being in the woods with them.
That Buck is so symbolic of the fact that Mother Nature will persevere. Respect. What a story.
Exaclty what I was thinking!😉
I have no idea how that deer was still alive, given the shot placement.
Shitty, dull broadhead.
Exactly! Not a bad shot at all, quartering to or quartering away. Bright red lung blood too.
I read an article in North American whitetail where a hunter in Kansas made a perfect shot on a 200” deer only to find out that the buck had lived its entire life on one lung, and the lung that wasn’t functioning was the lung that the hunter punctured. Deer went 3 miles before it expired.
There's no way it made it through
i also thought it would have pierced its heart...
This need to be part of hunter education courses. Really makes you think about taking a shot.
Agreed. The #1 reason we are called is due to shot judgement error. Trying to make a good shot when the shot is just not there…
looked like a pretty decent quartered away show from from drone video was it not?@@deerdogsanddrones
The shot was near perfect..The problem is he mostly missed the deer's left lung...and they can even sometimes survive on one lung.. Had the deer been more broadside he most likely wouldn't had made it more than 100 yds.
@bloodtrackingdogsllc "bad shot placement?" Possibly high but right where most guys shoot and kill deer. The angle was definitely fine. Just a fluke thing and some of these beasts just don't wanna die😅.
Thermal imaging is way cool though, Btw. I bet you are a life saver to many hunters. I've killed many deer with a bow and one i didn't recover still haunts me. Giant and didn't get much of blood trail. I shot slightly back and didn't get pass through which never really happens to me. Biggest problem, he went into an insane jungle thick area, little blood. Waited until next day to even start looking, rained that afternoon as I remember. I needed your dogs or cameras.
@@saywhat6632right?
Great video, and great effort by the hunter. This is one of those situations where none of us wants to be in. I'm a hunter as well. I'd rather missed, then to injured them, and lose them.
Agreed.
ABSOLUTLY.....
One hundred percent!
But when someone does something like this to the animal, he or she will be haunted and punished by God as well as by the animal. 😅😅. It's better not to hunt at all. We all can get along 😅😅
Amen.
I have been nauseated over not finding deer before and I know it happens to the best of us. I only hope the hunter did everything they could to make a perfect shot and compensated for the deer jumping the string because that shot seemed awfully high.
I was surprised the deer survived twenty-six hours with that kind of blood loss.
Thank you, for showing the split-screen, it was very insightful. Most drone recovery videos only show infrared.
He tracked it with a thermal.imaging drone...I think he did the best to track it. No deer hit good goes that long and doesn't die.
@@Ikmtyou2337 Thermal uses infrared.
@banjohappy correct a thermal camera uses infrared technology to create thermal images but a thermal camera and infrared camera are two different things. An infrared camera is basically just night vision while a thermal gives you a hot cold image
Im a deer hunter myself and i understand how it goes sometimes . Good video, but that that made me feel bad for that big boy .
They are amazing the survival skills they have after being hit.
I’m with you. They are incredibly tough!!
Same. Hard to see it like that. Everything wants to live. The thing is that shot wasn’t really bad. it wasn’t high really and had an exit that should have hit at least a lung… such strong animals
Too tough for there own good sometimes! They never stop amazing me! Seeing that shot I never would have expected that deer to live that long!
Me either…
Their, not there.
The one time I lost a shot deer, after two days of searching, I literally had nightmares on and off for weeks.
It can be very nerve racking.
I still think about a deer I lost and that was 1987.
For those that think hunting is inhumane you have no idea. Letting these animals live till old age where they either starve or when a predator rips them apart while alive is far worse. Ive seen coyote, wolves, and bears work on critters and its plainly awful in the worst kind of agony.
Please tell us what broadhead. That was a lethal hit with a sharp, fixed blade.
Music doesnt help 😢😱
Back when I was a kid someone shot my dog exactly how this deer is hit , I didn't know how he was alive but I took him to the vet and he said that lungs expand and contract in manner that when the shot went through it missed his vitals because his lungs were contracted this is a lot more blood because that broadopened opened a huge wound channel, this seems to align with what i experienced maybe the hunter reads this it's just one of those 1 in a million bad luck ordeals the vet told me that was the odds of that ever happening again...
Whitetails are the toughest animals out there and their will to live is incredible. This shot had to have missed everything high.
They definitely are not...not even on thr toughest deer scale...blacktail #1 axis #2
Expanding broadheads are dumb!
@@tolt1776 A mature whitetail buck tops them in regards to will to live. Some of the shots I've seen them live through are incredible.
@@whitetail.roots.89 what else have you shot? A balck bear is by far tougher than a whitetail and again blacktail are #1
@whitetail.roots.89 easy to day when all you shoot is whitetail with twizzler arrows!
I can’t believe the deer didn’t expire in less than a 100 yards
I'm a bow hunter and with that much blood based on this video, how do they Not recover this deer? I've hit some under brush one time and the arrow didn't hit the heart but edge of the lung and we found it the next day after it travelled 1.5 miles, simple blood trailing, when we found it, it was still alive but laid its head down when we walked up and passed away. It had less than 5 cups of blood left in the body. So i find it hard that this deer was not recovered based on the film. That or they didn't try very hard. Sorry to say but come on.
Would love to know what broadhead?
What kind of broadhead did he use?
That deer shouldn’t have lasted an hour with that shot.
I wonder if it was a mechanical broadhead failure? The shot angle looked good, this is a head scratcher for sure.
My friend had this happen in the late 90's Bow hunting on a doe. We tracked it for a half a mile never found it. During rifle hunting, over a month later the deer was harvested. On the in side of the chest cavity was the shaft of the arrow. Should have been a double lung shot. Fat had grown around each end of the shaft of the arrow. White tail have 9 lives sometimes!
Yes they do.
So what do y’all think happened?
Double lung shot. I killed a doe once w/ a rage that didn’t open. She died in sixty yards. Was it a failure to open? Possibly a narrow single bevel? What happened?
The arrow was not recovered. It was shot from a ground blind. The entry is the right side, exit left side. The hunter felt and said he hit high. Unless the camera angle is deceiving the right side entry doesn’t look all that high. It was tracked a mile to this point with only 1 known wound bed, that you saw. Based on the entry and exit wounds and what we know, it’s a one lung hit. It was a mechanical broad-head, since we don’t have the arrow, we don’t know if it failed to completely deploy or not. Everything indicates this deer will expire. We have no updates to this point.
@@deerdogsanddrones . If it’s one lung and he survives the coyotes- I bet he shows up chasing does in a few weeks.
It appears to be one lung and liver shot from the angle, which is an eventual dead deer, but it's amazing that it lasted 26+ hours and was never recovered. They are resilient animals!
Liver? No way
@@alexmacdonald6515I was looking at the right side, assuming, exit hole, which looks to be behind the lung, which the liver is right there. However, after 26 hours, I don't know.
Wow. There we have it, on video - a deer double lunged, and lives on... Tough buck
Not double lunged, gut shot. No blood around nose, therefore not lung shot. Hit too far back. Should be right behind shoulder.
What state was this in? Just curious since some states don't allow drones to be used even for recovery. Looks like the buck was hit in one lung. They can live a long time with a single lung hit. sadly it will eventually most likely die. It's all part of hunting.
I wish there could be more research and conversation around pushing a one lung hit deer. There’s a lot of good arguments out there of how pushing one lung deer has a higher rate of recovery.
Not a lung hit. No blood around nose. Gut shot.
Great job! What drone are you using
That was insane! I can't believe that! I just found your channel and can't wait to watch more! Good luck with everything my new friend!
Thank you very much!!
Lot of hate in these comments from people that either don’t hunt or need an 8’ ladder to get atop their horse…these things happen on occasion unfortunately….
Great footage, that deer was a tank. Tough buggers no doubt. What drone are you using ?
Thank you!! DJI M30 T
Quartering away and not shot back enough probably one lung. You'd be amazed how long they can live and even survive from such a hit. Tough ass animals
Goes to show how important it is to not immediately run to see a deer
More important to make sure when u release the arrow, u have high confidence it goes into kill zone, not just getting a shoot at big buck. That should be his buck for year in that state
@@Shawon-oh9pu That IS in the kill zone.
Looks like a high shot between the lungs and the spine but not enough to clip the spine or anything super vital that’s why he lived. He clotted and slowly stopped throwing blood. Threw the boiler room with a gap like that he’d have went maybe a 1/4 mile tops I’ve wiffed shots too
There is no such thing as above lungs and below spine. Plenty of content out there to prove it. This was almost certainly a single near side lung hit deer. Way too much blood to have not hit a lung.
That's David Goggins deer brother Deervid Goggins. Legend goes he is still in the standing corn somewhere grunting "who's going to carry the boats?"
Great Video, Not to blow by the whole point of the video, but would you mind sharing what kind of drone that is? Mine is not near that clear or can zoom that well?
DJI Matrice M30T
One-lunged him. Hit too far forward and just caught the upper front corner of the near lung. A one-lunged deer can easily live 24-48 hours, and might even recover, although its unlikely.
I concur.
The lungs go into the chest cavity around the heart. It possible he got one lung but it wasn’t because the shot was too far forward.
@ericlaird5149 not sure what you're trying to say there, but if he only got one lung, then the hit was too far forward. If it had been 6-8" further back it would've caught both lungs.
@@tracyelsinger1088no, then he would have missed the entrance lung. The exit was at the shoulder blade or vital V area.
Have you had a doctor listen to your lungs? The 1st place they listen to (auscultate) is the area between your neck & shoulders or upper traps area. WHY? Because that is where the "lung apices" are. Google it .
Legend has it, the deer is still standing on a corn field bleeding all over the ground
Looks like a good hit. Crazy how tough those big mature bucks are.
Way too high up to be a good hit. Just a large enough calibre. A good hit would have seen the animal dead and surely not alive after 26 hours.
@frbrbrgrblgrr7777 it's still a double lung shot. The lungs expand the entire chest cavity. Sometimes blood mixed with foreign debre clots and seals the lungs enough to keep them going tho.
*Edit blood clotting is more common on high lung shots tho I will say.
Quarter to shots aren’t the best. Usually you’re only catching one lung because of the angle but that sure does look like a kill shot to me. Hope the BH didn’t fail
What's a positive answer to recover that deer ,what could have been done different.
Where is that music coming from? Someone's playing their instrument in the cornfield!
What drone and camera were used for this video?
The shot looked good with an exit wound. A friend of mine shot a buck perfectly through both lungs broad side at 15 yards, he had a used broadhead that was dull. Never found it
That’s absolutely incredible!!! Big bucks are so resilient! Hopefully he made a full recovery and will give a bow hunter another chance. 🙏🏻🙌🏻😇
What kind of broadhead was he using?
One lung would be my guess. I killed a big buck years ago and it only had one lung and an old wound.
You put out some really great content! Keep it coming!
Thank you. New release today or tomorrow!!
@@deerdogsanddrones same! We just dropped a new vid minutes ago!
Wow, it’s amazing how they live after a shot !!
Was it shot from a ground blind? Not much of an angle from entry to exit hole. Can i ask what state? I've heard of tree lines, property lines, shelter belts, but hedge rows not so much. Learn something new every day! A whitetails will to live is unbelievable!
We have hedge rows all over the place here in the Midwest (Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, etc), figured everyone had them. Many decades ago farmers would plant hedge trees (Osage orange) on their property boundaries as a relatively low cost way to fence in cattle etc. Sometimes the trees themselves were dense enough to contain the animals, other times they served as living posts for barbed wire or mesh. Many of those old hedgerows have been dozed out, but you still see a lot of them.
That pool of blood below it is crazy. The next morning when it took off from the bed was it still bleeding or had it stopped?
Very Cool video. There is so many drones on the market over the years. I have always wanted to buy one. What brand model is Yours ?
I shot a lg buck 4 years abo that had 2 different broadheads burried in the interior scapula area encapsulated in cartillage type material. Impressive survivability on those animals
That's why I quit fooling with bow hunting, to much can go wrong
@@shitsngiggles8371 I've not had any issues in 20+ years thankfully. But I bowhunt how I feel it should be done. 25 yards and in. If you want to shoot further just use a gun since it works better. Bowhunting is supposed to be a "getting close" persuit.
@@eduffy4937I always set my stand so I can only get 20 yard shots to keep me honest.
@@eduffy4937 I bet you ain't killed much to speak of
@@shitsngiggles8371 haha yeah, you sure got me there.....I'll invite you to my house so you can take a look around at my taxidermy collection and feel stupid for that comment.
I hunt from the ground a lot. I've made nearly that same shot on probably a dozen deer that fell over dead within fifty yards. Some of 'em are just tougher than others. Cool video!
Yes, extremely tough. Thanks.
Yeah doesn’t look like a bad shot to me.
If hadn’t seen the shot holes- I wouldn’t have believed this story. It looks like a double lung hit.
What drone are you using
As a hunter, it is truly sad seeing any animal suffer. As a pet owner it is heartbreaking to see.
shot looks ok. did u use a field point.
The failure of a mechanical broadhead is a real possibility. The arrow was not recovered to know for sure.
Poor Decision, I would’ve never that deer to suffer
I think the entrance was a little too far forward and it missed the liver and only caught the near lung and not the back side one. A broadside shot and it’s laying 50 yds away dead. But bc of the angle he shoulda been back 2-3 inches maybe on the entrance of course.That’s all I can think of bc I’m shocked too that it was still alive the next morning.
You can see the exit is well in front of the front leg. If it was 2-3 inches back , it’d be a different story.
What a horrible way for this beautiful animal to die.
Virtually all deer other than taken by hunters or cars will be eaten alive by predators either when young or old. There is no retirement home for them...still this was a strange outcome, I wonder if the hunter was using a cheap broadhead that broke or ?? Most deer with what appears to have been a good shot will be lights out very quickly.
Not hating on archery hunting, but for this and other reasons I hunt with rifle exclusively. The damage inflicted is much more likely to be fatal. Just like with archery though, mistakes can happen. Training and care for your equipment is crucial to success in the field. I hope that deer fully recovered. Magnificent creatures.
There is no dead zone above the lungs and below the spine.
It was almost certainly hit above the spine... even though at first glance it looks like it was hit below.
For what it's worth, I'm a veterinarian and a hunter.
Thanks for the comment.
There is no such thing as above the spine. The spine is the top most part of the back. Some veterinarian you are. 🤣😂🤡🌎
@glasstactical3566 there is a good 3-4" of muscle above the spine between the shoulder blades on a big buck. That said, I do think this shot hit below the spine. There is no dead zone there, but it's possible to just clip one or both lungs without killing the deer quickly.
@@tracyelsinger1088 agreed.
@@glasstactical3566 I guess the vet should of said spinal cord. What you feel when you run you hand down a deers back is the spinous process or vertebrae. They protrude upward from the spinal cord which sets lowers. The spinous process are shorter towards the rear of the deer, a couple inches long, and can be as long as 6” long in the deers neck. So when people say, above the spine, they mean above the spinal cord. Which happens all the time. I have a video on spinal shock. When this happens it is almost always a hit to the spinous process, or vertebrae. At the top of the deers back. If you transect the spinal cord, the deer isn’t going anywhere.
GREAT VIDEO!
Poor guy. It's terrible to see anything suffer like this. Imagine the pain.
So did u use a drone to find a deer to shoot? If not, thats not hunting...l hope he survives...
I hunt and this just rips me up. What looks to be a kill shot and the deer is just defying odds. Brutal.
What kind of drone is this?
What drone was this? Nice footage and resolution.
DJI Matrice M30T
This is one of those times when pressuring a deer into an open field to take another shot may have been a better solution. Never understood the idealogy to let the deer sit somewhere overnight. If you know where an animal is get a couple of buddies and go get the deer.
Holy smokes these brutes are tough. The will to live is strong in most things. This is tough one, looked like a great shot. Just bad luck for all involved, especially the deer. He was beautiful!!! Sorry to the hunter!! Coyotes thank you I'm sure
He didn't go to water so he might and went out to the corn to possibly feed so if it doesn't pass that evening near by he will potentially survive. They are tough sobs, I've seen them get hit by cars and run off. Also seen them run into moving cars and take off.
It would amaze people to know how truly hearty these animals are. Think about what they go through just in their habitat to survive. Dogs coyotes wolves bobcats and bears all trying to eat them. Then man and the cars/trucks on the roads.
I’ve hunted for many decades seen some crazy stuff the deer have survived through. From a buck at a butcher having 4 broad heads and eleven .22 bullets in it was finally taken with a shotgun I think. To a buck I shot double longed that went 2 miles into the swamp and when I finally found him he was still alive but had packed the wound with mud! Most incredible think I’ve ever seen. Killed another that had a abscessed in the chest and when my dad seen it looked at my mom and said that Deer looks real familiar. It was the one he had shot out with a bowl a month before.
As a hunter all of us do our best to make it to quick N clean kill. It makes a huge difference in the taste of the meat and of course is the humane thing to do.
If it does succumb to this wound it will not go to waste one of those critters I mentioned before will consume it.
That broadhead was either a failed expandable or butter knife sharp. No way that deer should have live 2 minutes with that placement
The arrow was never recovered/found, and the broadhead was a mechanical.
What drone is that?
What drone is being used in this video?
any chance of the drone being used to pick him up again?
An attempt was made the following day. Nothing…the deer may of crossed a nearby road in an area we couldn’t go, the hunter was working on that.
Amazing footage, what was the Drone and thermal imaging setup? didn't see it in the previous comments. I've never seen such excellent overlay footage from a civilian rig, this would be excellent for search and rescue.
Wonder what kind of Broadhead was used
Idk which brand of mechanical.
I lost one a week ago. Tracked it for 8 hours and well over a mile. Probably the worst feeling I've ever had as a hunter. I've hunted archery for 15 years and it was the first time I've put a arrow in a deer and didn't recover it. It's unfortunately part of hunting.
What drone you using? Very cool
How is it legal to use drones to track game?
One tough critter the whitetail is . Great video .
This was fascinating to watch. I didn’t realize a deer would stand like that while injured.
A lot of never been seen behavior could be gleaned this year from recoveries. Hopefully it will make everyone a little better hunter and tracker.
Its in shock,.!!
@@blkicemike4857 yeah I just always thought they laid down
@@FloydofOz ,. Not always,. If u spook ‘em ,. For ex; u place not so good shot, u are so excited, u wait 5min instead of 30-1hour,. Upon starting to search for the deer,
u jump ‘em bak up and it will run a dam country mile,. Shot placement is key folks,. A well placed shot to the lil white patch on neck will sevre spine, they drop rite there,. Most ppl are taught to hit the shoulder, that is so the hunter will learn to track, blood trails,.
I feel it to be more humane to place shot under chin(white patch on neck) they dont get bak up fr that,. Ive been hunting close to 40yr,. And have seen some gruesome shit while hunting,. Had a kid one year gut shoot a buck on property( his dads fault for not teaching him better) anyways the deer lived but the following spring had to be euthanized due to guts were hangin out about 2ft. All green and infected looking. All because that kids dad had taught him,”as soon as u see hair SHOOT” a real knucklehead,. The assholes lived quarter mile from me,. So on mult occasions i had to humanly put down their screwups,. No Joke! Theres ppl out there hunting that dam stupid,. If u try to teach them better, end up an argument,. Because whatever u try to show them they have done it 10 times better,. We all know the type rite?🙄,.
@@blkicemike4857 it's not in shock, it's ears are pinned back listening. If he had went into shock he would have died.
will it recover? im guessing no
Funeral music shut it off
So do u think the deer lived?
A wounded animal lost is a hunters shame , Or should be , This is why bowhunting is not a noble sport , Its inferior as its more difficult , therefore creating more issues like this , a Perfect kill is dropped on the spot , and is a perfection every hunter should strive for . The right gun with the right load at the right range which has been created by the right tactics . espicable
How much do you charge for a recovery?
Looks like it was high in the no mans land area and shot from the ground. Got a bit of the right lung it seems, deer probably lived but certainly is not going to be running any marathons or chasing many does.
Im a 50 year hunter, this sh*t breaks my heart. This deer is standing there exsanguinating, suffering.
I have asked avid Bow Hunters if you had to choose the way in which to die, yet there was only two choices Arrow shot or rifle, all selected Rifle?
But if you were being hunted, would you rather the guy going after you had a gun or bow?
Amazing footage….what a boss!
A beast of a deer…
@@deerdogsanddronesI just found your channel. This video made me subscribe. I’m impressed at your drive to help hunters retrieve their game. What kind of drone is this? I’ve never seen a drone used to track deer. Excellent job👍
Thank You!! It is a DJI M30T. @@courtneesdad
Bowhunter of 41 years, have lost a few myself... Horrible to watch him suffer.
I shot a deer with an arrow. The deer heard the bow string,over and the arrow went through the eye and the broadhead was sticking out the back of the skull. The deer ran half mile before dying.
WOW!!
Some of those bucks are so tough. I hate it for the hunter and the deer. My son shot a big one last year and that deer ran for ever. We tracked him and put two more holes in him. Finally put him down in a crick. Took three more shots and he finally died. Stuff like this makes it difficult to be a hunter. Nothing worse than anything suffering.
Burns us all up to see this animal suffer like that. They are resilient. He may have lived. But we know it was not intentional by the hunter as he made a solid effort to recover him.
Dull or failed expansion of blades.
Oh man. Thats heartbreaking to see the old buck still kicking for so long. I can't imagine not getting an ethical shot. I know it happens but i can't imagine how hard it hurts to wound one and not have it drop quickly after. Fingers crossed i never know