Surprise in my buck harvest

[windingwinds]

It's no secret I hate cold weather but glad to have it so I didn't have to rush to process my buck. As I got him skinned I found a surprise. Glad I didn't cut myself. It was lodged in his left should, high. I "think" it only clipped one small part of lung, as it was high up shot, hard to tell with the bullet destruction in his vitals (my bullet for sure got his liver). He didn't act wounded before I shot him, deer are tough critters.

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[lawrencecountyhunter]

Tough critters for sure!

[chubwub]

Wow, neat! I'm even more motivated to kill a deer now, I didn't realize they were filled with prizes when you opened them up!

[Sasquatch]

Yikes!

[shouldernuke]

Ouch that would hurt but I promis had that Bh opened up the chest cavity he would of deflated his lungs and died .High hits/ high shoulder hits save more deer lives every year than Cater has little pills!!

[Woody Williams]

EWWWW!

I don't think I'd be eating the meat from around that.

OK archery guys - What broadhead is that?

Actually a better question would be - Who's broadhead is that? biggrin2

[steve46511]

I still have broadheads with sections of aluminum arrows still attached that came out of deer I processed.

One in particular sticks in my mind and I know I have that one laying somewhere.

Around 8 inches long with a four blade ( Rocky Mountain I think) head this one came out of the neck of a mature buck.

It was found while deboning the big thick neck but after finding it, I looked and it lead me to a scar in the hide that had completely healed over. Not a hair out of place on the outside but it could be found parting the hair once you know where to look.

That head had been there AT LEAST a year laying within about an inch of the jugular after passing close to the spine and obviously he was out chasing the girls from the hunter's story.

Even if dull as heck, that one always amazed me how that buck didn't get something severed in time.

God Bless

[scrub-buster]

Looks like a 3 blade muzzy to me. I didn't lose any of those this year so it isn't mine.

[Woody Williams]

Nov 17, 2014 17:14:58 GMT -5 scrub-buster said:

Looks like a 3 blade muzzy to me. I didn't lose any of those this year so it isn't mine.

Kind of what I thought.. S-o-o-o-o-o, somewhere on Archery Talk someone is blaming a Muzzy Broadhead for him not recovering a buck.

[steve46511]

The broadhead mfgr is going to bug me now LOL

The gold ferrule should help but it's LOOKS to me to be a Muzzy clone of some kind (IMO). It could easily be an old discontinued head too but it looks strangely familiar. Something looks "off" to my eyes for it to be a muzzy but they make and made several models. I thought muzzys had their name on them? Out of my bailiwick.

Only about 18 million heads out there anymore.

Not like when I started and Bear, Zwickey, Ace and Ben Pearson covered about 85 percent of the heads used

I can't keep track any more.

God Bless

[windingwinds]

I looked again, and its a Muzzy 100.
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[windingwinds]

Had about 4 inches of arrow shaft attached. Did trim that area and bullet wound areas. Lost about 5 lbs of meat that way.

[swilk]

Muzzy 3 blade 100gr. IMO one of the best designs of all time....that head needs to find its way onto an arrow in the future to try and redeem itself.

[jajwrigh]

I use muzzy 4 blades 100gr and they do a good job from my old two cam bow.

[windingwinds]

Lol. It's glued to shaft of broken carbon arrow. Two blades are bent in. It's a oddity that I plan on using with the shoulder mount.

[mkfrench]

Wait a minute!!! I thought ONLY mechanicals resulted in non lethal and non pass thrus! Okay I stirred the pot, everyone proceed.

[oldhoyt]

I've found broadheads in more than a couple deer. All have been completely healed over, from a previous season. No signs of infection, but plenty of scar tissue.

[36fan]

What part of the state are you hunting in, and how old was the buck? I lost a 100 gr 3-blade Muzzy in a 1.5yr old buck 4 or 5 years ago...

[dadfsr]

If I wasn't so technologically challenged I would post up pics of the mechanical broadhead that I found in my buck last year-stuck between vertebrae in front of the shoulder. I hadn't seen any outward signs of it even being shot as I skinned it and it wasn't until I was working the neck meat down that I realized my boning knife "clinked" on metal rather than bone.

I was talking to my cousin's stepson's that hunt the property next to mine a couple of months later and found out that the broadhead belonged to one of them-from the year before that! He knew he had hit it high but followed the blood trail for almost 1/2 mile across two different properties before losing any sign of a track....When I took it with my smokepole the next year I had no clue that anything might be wrong with it-deer can truly be very tough creatures to take down.

[zoltangoode]

I lost a good part of a hindquarter from a buck a couple years ago because he had an extra broadhead in him. I had no idea when I shot him that he had it. He was chasing a doe like normal. I didn't see it when I field dressed him. I don't process my own deer so I warned my butchering team to watch for it. They later said it was partially healed over and tossed it and the bad portion of the meat. I never found out what broadhead it was. Now I wish I had saved it as a trophy of sorts.