Peculiar thing happened hunting doe

[bartiks]

Hello all,
I had something very peculiar happen to me on Monday when I went out for the bonus hunt.  I was sitting in my stand when a doe came up and after a little bit of a chess match I was able to get a shot off.  After I got down to look and see if there was a blood trail where she was standing at there was a large amount of white fur all over the ground.  My immediate response was, great I hit her low and took it off her chest and I didn't locate any blood.

Well long story short was after I had located her, first deer in 2 years, my shot had hit a little on the high side and hit her right lung.  Thinking the worst that after the slug continued it would of hit the bladder and the like and then I thought what a "fun" time I was going to have in for me.

After looking further there was no exit wound, any where on her.  Which brings me back to something that was strange, if there was no exit wound why would there be large amounts of white fur all over the ground?  Has anyone ever had this happen to them before or have heard of something like this before?  This has left me scratching my head for several days.  Thanks guys and god bless

[HuntMeister]

Hard to say without a photo. My first thought is based on your statement that you were worried that you got guts on a high lung hit is that you had a angling to shot and so the bullet traveled along the side of the deer more so that if the bullet had entered at a right angle to the side of the deer. In that case, the bullet will definitely shave lots of hair.

[saltydog]

Being that you mentioned that you were using slugs, could it have been the wadding or maybe the sleeve of a sabot depending on what slug you were using may have hit her low and knocking off the white fur ? just a thought.

[bartiks]

I'm trying to add the photo, having a little trouble, it's asking me for the http link to it. Any help would be appreciated.

[nfalls116]

You have to have a photo bucket account I think

[HuntMeister]

Try this how to post a photo link...
hunt-indiana.com/thread/13633/post-pictures-on-huntingindiana

[tynimiller]

What was the shot angle? That will tell a lot of the story...

[chewbacca]

Are you sure the fur was from this animal and not another animal? Like Tyni said, knowing the shot angle would sure help to pinpoint where the hair is from...

[bartiks]

Sorry for the hiatus guys, to get caught back up. As you are looking at the deer head on I was up in a tree around 12 feet or so and she was around 15 yards away, I hit her in her right lung coming at a downard angle of around maybe 30 degree or so. As I mentioned before there was no exit wound.

And to answer your question chewbacca I know for a fact that it was her hair being that she was close enought for me to pick out from my tree stand where she was standing and even when she jumped/ran by the disturbed leaves on the ground.

The only thing that I can think of, and I might be way off base here is that since there was no exit wound. All of the energy was transferred into her when the slug hit and maybe "shook" the hair off of her underside. Does that sound to far out there? Like I said never had this happen before. Thoughts.

[madcityhoosier]

The hair you saw...was it the real white hair like on a deer's belly, or did the hair just look whiteish? My thought is that what you saw was actually the inner coat of the deer's fur, which is a light gray. I've seen this before on quartering archery shots where my broadhead actually trims off some of the brown tips or the guard hairs and just leaves the gray underfur exposed.

 

[bartiks]

It was a bright white like the fur off of the belly, and there was a lot of it on the ground. Not clumps or anyyhing like that, just a bunch of white fur scattered about on the ground.