Shoot and Track #2

[Elkhunttoo]

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We have 4 X’s on this great bull. Red, black, blue, Green (there is no option for no shot, the bull stepped right when you released your arrow. He went from perfectly broadside at 23 yards with his leg forward to this exact angle while your arrow was in flight)

You are not exactly sure where you hit him. You work it over in your head and these are the 4 areas you think you might of hit. It looked like only about half the arrow penetrated.

Your job now is to rate these 4 colors into best case worst case order? Describe what vitals if any you think each spot hit? Or is one of them shoulder bone? And how far you would estimate each tracking job to be.


Example if there were purple and yellow X’s my answers would be

Ok, if I hit the (#1) purple x I will need to give this bull 30 minutes should’ve been a double lunge hit.
If I hit the (#2) yellow x I might of only gotten 1 lunge and liver, I’m going to give this bull three hours and will want to really go slow on this tracking job because he might still be alive…….and so one



We are basically practicing in this scenario what is going on in our heads after the shot

[RanchoSueno]

Black is possibly the humerus, he may be healthy as a horse. IF NOT the humerus, you tucked it right into serious cardiovascular goods and mostly lung. Blue and Red are both lung quartered too means you likely punched diaphragm/liver. Green is mostly lung and stomach with the angle and how food settles in the 4 chambers of their ruminating stomach. May be stinky. But all four spots equal a dead bull so long as your arrow isn't dead center of the humerus.
#1 Red
#2 Blue
#3 Black
#4 Green
Tracking really depends on sign post-shot; do you hear him crashing a short distance away? Gurgling, panting, coughing? How good is the blood? Are you able to stay in eye sight and follow up? Bare minimum I would wait an hour post-shot before taking up the trail and only push depending on the quality of sign. Preferably with another arrow nocked

[Swede]

I agree with Rancho. Not knowing where you hit means the shooter is going on their best estimate. I would wait an hour and slowly try to follow the bull. It will be important to go slow and look ahead constantly for him. If you don't know where you hit does it matter about the speculation? Maybe it was the gizzard that was penetrated. If you have help around this might be a good time to get him or her, have lunch, and get ready for a long day.

[Lefty]

I would be concerned about green.
Maybe the blood sign would help. I don't suspect
green, since the arrow only went halfway.