Fil
NES Member
Thought I'd ask people's opinion here.
My dad shot a fork horn Friday morning with the bow. (in MA)
He made a decent shot, mid body, but 3/4 high. (mostly internal bleeding)
Decent blood trail until he went into the edge of the swamp about 50 yards after the shot. The swamp is pretty wet and washed alot of the blood away and watered it down enough to make the trail disapear. After searching all day Friday he gave up, thinking it made it into the swamp and died in there.
Sunday he went back to look again and decided to just comb the area after the last blood was spotted and found it.
He gutted it, tagged it and brought it home, he says the meat looks ok.
You think its still good? It was rather warm and rainy Saturday, temps in the open areas were in the high 60s.
Let me know. Thanks.
My dad shot a fork horn Friday morning with the bow. (in MA)
He made a decent shot, mid body, but 3/4 high. (mostly internal bleeding)
Decent blood trail until he went into the edge of the swamp about 50 yards after the shot. The swamp is pretty wet and washed alot of the blood away and watered it down enough to make the trail disapear. After searching all day Friday he gave up, thinking it made it into the swamp and died in there.
Sunday he went back to look again and decided to just comb the area after the last blood was spotted and found it.
He gutted it, tagged it and brought it home, he says the meat looks ok.
You think its still good? It was rather warm and rainy Saturday, temps in the open areas were in the high 60s.
Let me know. Thanks.