What is your longest recovery on a well hit big game animal?Mine is a blackmail doe recovered 800 yards downhill from where a broadhead passed through the center of both lungs. Up until that time, I'd of called someone a liar if the said a lung shot animal could go that far. It was a very steep mountain with no vegetation other than grass. I assume that gravity helped it get so far away.

6 days and 1 mile!

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Tracy

Tracked a buck for almost 1200yds, actual path of buck not straight line. Marked the route with GPS as we went. Had very good blood the whole way and just couldn't believe that he kept going. The deer was close to the tree and upon field dressing the arrow got the back part of just one lung. The low exit contributed to the good blood trail.

My father tracked a gut shot deer with his old bloodhound. The deer traveled his whole entire home range which just so happened to be within a square block of timber between 4 major roads. the deer paralleled the roads in a 6 mile loop, staying 100-200 yards in the timber from the highways, before they caught up to him. They jumped the buck once and my dad could see that the deer had pulled a string of intestines out when he stood up. They put more pressure on him and ended up having to shoot the deer in the bed to finally kill him. The buck's final bed was 200 yards from where he had originally been shot. The track took 6 hours.

I wouldn't consider a gut shot deer a "Well hit deer" like the thread asked for. Was that a  tradbow or gun hit deer?

Tracy

I hate these threads!  I like a short trail, like 5 feet, I don't want to hear about an animals suffering and I dont think we do any favours to ourselves publishing these stories.

Some critters just have an incredible will to live. I don't see anything wrong with discussing that?    

Well hit? 100 or so yards.

It was a tradbow Tracy, and I overlooked the part of being well hit. I apologize. If we are going well hit, this buck went about 175 yards. Thanks to Copper for finding him in a downpour.  
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Hear or lungs 80 yards

Well hit- no more than 100yds.

Gut shot. Waited 4 hrs.  Dang coyotes jumped him.  Decided to pursue him with a purpose (It was the day before gun season opened). 5 hours later. Success at 2AM, 2.5 miles (GPS coordinates) the way a crow flies- who knows with all the backtracking, up, down, etc etc.  Gut shot deer can live a LOooong time and go a LOooong way.

Bull elk centered both lungs made it about 600 yards.
God bless, Steve

I shot a 150" buck perfect in 2009 that went over 600 yards.  Three hours later he was still alive but died within a minute of finding him, what are the odd.  Upon field dressing him the 2 blade took a 1/2" slice out of his heart but didn't make it into the chamber.  I was using a Robertson bow and was talking to Dick and he shot a mountain goat the same way and watched it for several hours before it expired.  Wouldn't have believed it if it didn't happen to me so I don't expect some of you to.

hit a nice doe low and tight , got the heart and she went 250 yds , blood looked like it was dumped with a bucket.

Same experience this season as Sunstone. Heart shot a doe. She made two hundred yards and was soaked with blood.

Haven't mapped it yet but double lunged deer I shot Friday night went almost 200yds

115 yards on a hog I hit in the ham as it sprinted past me at 8-9 yards.  First 80 yards or so I followed at a trot, then I just kept on the trail she was following and found her @25-30 farther.  She jumped up and I hit her with one more running shot.

Measured mine out tonight ~250 yds double lung non pass thru

heart shot doe 131yds (used buddys range finder),,, the reason I opt for the "high" in the lungs shot now is they drop within sight every time... low lungs or mid lungs not as short a trail as the high lungs for me,, I avoid heart shots and go 3" back 2" higher..