Interactive Bloodtrail Competition 2 An actual, recent, Bloodtrail
Clue 1

This bloodtrail is 100% real. All the pictures and steps are exactly as it happened during the CT firearms season on Saturday, 11/27/99. We are going to step you through this trail to see what decisions you would have made. Good Luck!

A glance at your watch tells you that you have 5 minutes before legal sunset. You hear a crack behind your stand and a group of 4 does walk out of the pines. The first three do not present you with a close enough shot but the last deer gives you a 20 yard quartering away shot. You pick a spot, draw and shoot the deer. The deer reacts strangely and your first impression is that you hit it low and a bit far back.

The deer does not run off but rather walks funny down the trail. You take a 2nd, longer shot but your arrow is deflected by a branch. Now the deer runs off quickly but then stops again and walks away. Lets look at the information available to you at this moment:

Here are the first clues to this blood trail

• This deer was bow-shot during the peak of the rut & fireams season.
• The shot was twenty yards and quartering away.
• The hit looked like it was low
• The deer did not run off but walked funny.
• The deer's tail flicked continuously in a straight up position.
• It will be illegal to shoot in a couple minutes.
• The deer, a doe, was with 3 other adult deer, all does and they headed North while the hit deer headed East.
• There are a lot of deer in the area.
• There is no threat of rain anytime soon and the temperature will be cold.
• The time of the shot was 4:18 PM.
• Tomorrow is Sunday which is a no-hunting day in CT

Here is the pic indicating shot angle, we have never hunted here before and do not know what the terrain is like.

Side Note: Thanks to the efforts of The United Bowhunters of Connecticut (UBC), and The Bowsite, we are bowhunting during the firearms season for the first time in CT history. The UBC and The Bowsite lobbied the Department of Environmental Protection in Hartford, attended the public hearings and pushed for this regulation. Despite strong opposition from the Friends for Animals, the regulation was approved in August. Because of the efforts of the DEP, UBC and The Bowsite, we are bringing you this bloodtrail.

 

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