Blood-Trailing Whitetails by Deer & Deer Hunting
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blood- Video From the Publishers of traıling Calling Back Buck After Miss Montana Scapula Shot whıtetails Features 42 The Science of Spoilage 2 Deer Blood! The key to obtaining top-quality venison starts Nothing stirs a hunter’s soul quite like the sight the very moment you pull the trigger or release of splashes of crimson on the forest fl oor. an arrow. Close Bow Shot on Rutting Buck New Hunter Shoots Buck in Brush 6 20 Blood-Trailing Tips 46 Where Does the Buck Stop? Did you make a good shot? Great! Now be sure A closer look at the legal rights involved when you close the deal with a successful trailing job. two hunters shoot the same deer. 9 Arrow Analysis How you decipher the evidence after the shot Resources greatly affects your blood-trailing success rate. 49 Vital Analysis 55 On the Trail 13 The First 50 yards The shot might seem perfect, but you can still 50 Shot Placement 56 Deer Are Built to Survive lose that deer if you’re not careful. 51 Complete Anatomy 57 Deer Aging by Double-Lung Shot with Crossbow Texas Rifl e Hunt with Dan Schmidt 17 3 Tough Acts to Follow 52 Skeleton A hit in the vitals will take a buck down, but Teeth 53 Circulatory Searchable PDF fi les are viewable in Adobe Reader. what about hits that are not immediately fatal? 58 Field Dressing Download for free at http://get.adobe.com/reader 54 Organs Videos viewable in QuickTime. 21 Solo Blood-Trailing 59 Hair ID Download for free at http://www.apple.com/quicktime The shot might seem perfect, but you can still lose that deer if you’re not careful. BLOOD-TRACKING WHITETAILS is presented 25 The One-Lung Shot by Deer & Deer Hunting©. Copyright 2011 by How to make the best of a tricky situation. F+W Media Inc. All rights reserved. 28 Dead-Space Debacle CONTRIBUTORS: Dr. Phillip Bishop, Bill It’s time to once and for all crush one of Vaznis, John Trout Jr., Dr. Tim L. Lewis, John T. Trout, Daniel E. Schmidt, Jacob Edson, bowhunting’s biggest myths. Al West, Dustin Reid, Chris Hermans, Tyler 34 The Femoral Artery Dallmann, Ben Sobieck Deadly shot choice ... or blatantly irresponsible? Deer & Deer Hunting© and its logo are reg- istered trademarks. Other names and logos 38 Brisket..Why Risk It? referred to or displayed in the content of this A closer look at the shot that leaves very little disc may be trademarked or copyright. room for error. To order additional copies of this disc, call (800) 258-0929, or visit www.deeranddeerhunting.com. Blood-Trailing Whitetails deeranddeerhunting.com 1 DEER BLOOD! Nothing stirs a hunter’s soul quite like the sight of splashes of crimson on the forest floor. by Dr. Phillip Bishop ONE OF THE BEST DEER I HAVE got off a good shot, and the deer EVER SEEN came into view about immediately disappeared into noon that day. I was hunting a the saplings, briars and assorted very thick creek bottom on the tangle. Oakmulgee Wildlife Management After a suitable waiting period, Area, a public hunting area near I maneuvered down the tree and my home in west Alabama. slipped quietly over to the spot As I discovered later, the deer where he had stood. I only had to was literally belly-crawling from search a moment or two and there the creek to a nearby cutover it was, a small puddle of bright whose brush stood over head-high blood with just a few deer hairs and was almost impenetrable. scattered about. Just before the deer stepped into The mere sight of deer blood the cutover, he stood for just stirs something primal within me. a moment on a small hillock. I love to see a deer fall as soon as Fortunately for me, that put him I shoot, but when that doesn’t broadside about 35 yards from happen I’m usually not too disap- my portable tree stand. I quickly pointed. There’s something special Blood-Trailing Whitetails deeranddeerhunting.com 2 DEER BLOOD! about locating deer blood, and I we harvest with a bullet, succumbs admit that my heart beats faster to blood loss. And, except for rare Blood’s primary when I am trying to piece together instances and very good snow, function is the puzzle of blood drops that almost every deer we track is be- will lead me to the treasure of the cause of the blood trail they leave transporting oxygen greatest trophy in North America, a behind. mature whitetail. In early Jewish Scripture, blood is that permits energy Practically every deer we kill with accurately identifi ed as the basis for production that an arrow, and the majority of those life. And this is clearly true for all but the simplest animals. Indeed, sustains life. A Cherokee Myth “the life is in the blood,” (Leviticus One day Kanati The Hunter brought home boys could push the rock back over the cave 17:11, 14). gives blood its magical abilities. a deer for his wife, Cornwoman, to skin and mouth, out ran not only deer after deer, but Hemoglobin is a protein composed cook. His wife was about to birth their first also bears, panthers, rabbits, wolves and Carrying Oxygen of thousands of carbon, hydrogen, child. As Cornwoman washed the blood out raccoons until finally even the mice ran out. Deer blood is indeed fascinating. oxygen and nitrogen atoms, and of the meat, a wild boy grew from a clot of Kanati, the keeper of the animals in the We tend to think of blood as a dor- just four little iron atoms. What’s deer blood and, at the same time, she gave cave, heard the sound of all the hooves, mant fl uid, like water, when really interesting about these iron-bear- birth to her own son, Younger Brother. paws and feet pounding the earth as the it is living tissue — just like muscle. ing proteins is that they have a Wild Boy had magical powers, and Younger animals ran out of the cave. Kanati ran to In fact, a principle role of blood is particular changeable shape. This Brother was strong and brave. Kanati killed the cave mouth where he found Wild Boy to help keep all other tissue alive. changing shape gives the hemoglo- many deer, and the boys wanted to find out and Younger Brother, heads hung in shame. Blood’s primary function is trans- bin protein its properties. where their father found so many deer. Wild Kanati said nothing to them but went inside porting oxygen that permits energy When there’s a lot of oxygen Boy was curious also about his deer-blood the cave and kicked over the containers full production that sustains life. available, the protein shape is ancestors. of bees, wasps, fleas and ants who swarmed Sounds simple doesn’t it? But such that it sucks up oxygen very The boys tried to follow their father on his out stinging and biting the boys. bear in mind that blood must easily. This is what happens when deer hunts, but he would never let them. One When the insects had gone, Kanati told be able to pick up oxygen at the the blood comes in contact with day, Wild Boy used his magic to become a his sons, "Until now, our life has been good. appropriate location, travel in a the high oxygen concentration fluff of bird down and rode along on Kanati’s I came to this cave and got deer for us to network of pipes (blood vessels) to in the deer’s lung. But when the shoulder without his father knowing. He saw eat. Now all the animals are gone. We will tissues needing oxygen, and upon oxygen level falls, as it does in the Kanati go up to the sacred mountains to a have to hunt hard for the rest of our lives. arrival, the blood must release the leg muscles of a running deer, the cave covered by a stone. Kanati pulled the We will have to wander the forest to hunt oxygen so it can be utilized. The shape of the protein changes and stone off, and out ran a deer. Kanati closed game. Some days we will go hungry. This blood delivery system is incredibly oxygen is released. the cave, hunted and killed the deer. Wild Boy is because you thought only of yourselves. effective in achieving this. Amaz- The amount of change in the saw everything and hurried to tell Younger From now on, you must always be careful ingly, blood was doing a near- protein shape depends on how Brother. when you deal with nature. Before you act in perfect job of pickup and delivery much oxygen is present. If the deer The next day, the two boys went to the the forest you must always give thought." thousands of years before Federal is quietly walking along feeding, cave. From the cave mouth, they heard the And so to this day, hunting has been hard Express or the United Parcel Service muscles and tissues don’t need sounds of every kind of animal. The two boys work and required the Cherokee to have computerized their services. much oxygen, so the hemoglobin couldn’t resist opening the cave to let out great skill. A key component of deer blood doesn’t release much. If the deer one animal to hunt. They pushed and grunted is hemoglobin contained inside is running for its life, the oxygen and finally moved the rock away.