Yep, I have to agree with what has already been said...clean miss!

A shot through the brisket low or very high on the back will do this. Had it happen. Deer is just fine then.

He mmmmmmissed

Its ok, Tell your buddy everyone misses now and again.

QuoteOriginally posted by Longtoke:
You could always give the arrow a sniff test when in doubt

True.  This does work for abdominal hits.  

Another sign of a hit would be found by crawling around the shot site looking for hair.  If you hit a deer with a sharp broadhead there will be hair.

Not on a fatal shoot, shot an elk though a non lethal spot on the neck and there was just one little speck of meat at the front end of the feather and I shot a coyote center mass and that arrow was moist with fur on the broadhead but basically no blood. Everything that hit fatal had a good bit of blood, even the one rabbit I used a broadhead on instead of a blunt and passed through it was covered in blood. He either missed or made a meat hit in my opinion

Like Michael said... I've seen a pretty clean arrow on a gut shot. Smell it. The nose doesn't lie.

Obviously, it's the BOW!!! Compounds will do these things...
They shoot SO fast, that the arrow does not have enough time, to do it's job!!! Tell your friend, to sell his bow IMEDIATELY, and buy a traditional bow.

Yes I still agree and any shot that is a pass-through will leave some residue of some kind even a brisket hit.... plus a brisket hit leaves white fur all over the ground at impact....there's no way he shouldn't  have been able to find that much white hair on the ground.

QuoteOriginally posted by woodchucker:
Obviously, it's the BOW!!! Compounds will do these things...
They shoot SO fast, that the arrow does not have enough time, to do it's job!!! Tell your friend, to sell his bow IMEDIATELY, and buy a traditional bow.

Ahhhhh.


So blazing fast the arrows cauterize the wound channel even as they cut it.

Devil's tools.

I've shot over 100 deer with bow. Been doing this since 1980. Have skinned for some camps, been on tons of recoveries and non recoveries.
Never once has or can an arrow be perfectly clean. Brock is right, he missed

Well, if it's on Youtube, it must be true.  

Well guys I'm happy to say no buzzards circling within 50 mile of were the deer was supposedly hit, and we have plenty of buzzards round here its chicken farm country. He mentioned to me this evening that he may have been mistaken due to the excitement and what not. And he does use a trad bow, if not id have never brought him with me.

If in doubt.....