Thread: Front on shots at Deer.

In September I shot a red spiker front on from about 15-20m, it turned and ran.
No blood that I could see, though it was raining at the time, which also made it hard to see which tracks were fresh. But I followed the dog and found the deer lying dead about 80m from where it was shot. The heart was torn to pieces.
A few years back I shot a fallow spiker side on. The bullet hit a tree and gouged a big mark down the side of it. No blood, but I searched for the deer for over an hour, lots of tracks everywhere (the spiker was with a weaner, and I spooked another deer while searching), and I couldn't find anything. I went back to the start and followed a set of tracks uphill (even though wounded deer are supposed to only go downhill), saw the weaner and shot it. As I was walking up to it I looked to the right and the spiker was lying dead, over 60m uphill from where it was shot.
I guess the moral of my stories is if there is no blood and you can't find a carcass, that doesn't mean it isn't dead somewhere not too far away.

Edit: Rifles were 308 and 30-30