I'm sure almost everyone that has ever worked on a field crew has a collection of interesting things found while surveying. This is one from my collection. My crew chief found it some years ago and gave it to me. Its part of a deer skeleton. The deer was apparently shot with bow and arrow using a hunting tip, a broadhead. The deer lived for quite some time judging by the fact that the bone had grown through the slots in the blades. What a will to survive.....
Me. "What's the difference?"
T.C. Carroll "It's the difference between right and wrong!"
One of my co-workers shot a mule deer buck several years ago with his bow. When he got to the animal to start processing it, he noticed that it had an odd shaped snout. As he was skinning it, he found a broadhead in the deer's nasal cavity. The deer had apparently been shot at some time in the past and the wound healed around the broadhead.
Needless to say, he had a European mount done of the skull. It makes for a great hunting story.
Broadheads kill by severing blood vessels and causing the animal to bleed out quickly. Anything but a well placed shot and the animal will?ÿ likely travel too far to be tracked, maybe recover, maybe not. A dull broadhead will push blood vessels aside rather than sever them. After tracking a black bear I shot for over 12 hours and finally catching up to it over a mile and 4000' in elevation later, I've had no desire to hunt bear or hunt with a bow since.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
Broadheads kill by severing blood vessels and causing the animal to bleed out quickly. Anything but a well placed shot and the animal will?ÿ likely travel too far to be tracked, maybe recover, maybe not. A dull broadhead will push blood vessels aside rather than sever them. After tracking a black bear I shot for over 12 hours and finally catching up to it over a mile and 4000' in elevation later, I've had no desire to hunt bear or hunt with a bow since.
Having grown up in AK, I had no desire to hunt for bear, either brown or black. They can be difficult to put down cleanly and humanely. And, I never wanted to be trailing a wounded bear. Just not my idea of fun, even with a big firearm, much less a bow and arrow.
