Finding Wounded Deer by John Trout

Author:John Trout [Trout, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2014-11-04T22:00:00+00:00

The preferred shot is the lungs and heart. Although a wound to both lungs will result in a quick, clean kill, some heart-shot deer may travel farther than anticipated.

Double-Lung Shot

The lungs of a deer are shaped like footballs. Each lung is roughly the size of a nine-inch pie plate, and takes up a large portion of the chest cavity. When air comes into the lungs through the bronchus, each lung forms air sacs, which are surrounded by capillaries. When a vertebrate animal inhales, the lungs expand. When the animal exhales, the lungs contract.

Your best opportunity to hit both lungs is when the animal is standing broadside. A slightly quartering-away deer also offers a direct path for the broadhead or projectile. Even if you hit the quartering-away deer in the middle of the abdomen, your arrow or bullet will get into the boiler room, taking out other organs along the way. If the deer quarters away sharply, or quarters to you, it becomes almost impossible to hit both lungs.

When a deer is hit in the lungs, and the heart and aorta artery is spared, it usually lunges forward and goes into a hard run, much like that of a racehorse coming down the home stretch. Its belly is also low to the ground as it takes long strides. A deer may go over the top of bushes, and may leap over brushpiles that are in the way. When the deer begins running, the tail is often up about halfway. After the animal runs thirty to forty yards, the tail usually drops. These are the typical reactions.

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