Deer/Moose falling on impact then getting up again

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Was just wondering what some of your experiences have been with deer, elk, moose, caribou etc etc dropping to the shot on impact but recovering and getting up again.

It has been my experience that once a deer or moose goes down right away it does not try to get up again.

My experience with bears is totally the opposite, they seem to have a glass jaw but get back up often to run.



what have you found?
 
Bears are tough as nails.
I've never shot a moose.
Deer on the other hand seem to be a lot weaker in the damage taking department...

maibe that's why they are where they are on the food chain pyramid.. :)

But I definetly agree with you.
 
I had an Elk do a face plant, hind legs just buckled, and it recovered and ran off ~100 yards or so. I found it dead.
 
I have had it happen to me and some buddies before, For me I smaked a Mule deer buck and it just flopped (not uncommon with the 338 and 200 grain bt's) I was in the process of tring to fill the doe tag I also had when I notice that my previously pole axed but is running away, Don't know why but when he was just about at the tree line he stopped and turned broadside, I then finished the job.

On gutting I had found that the first shot was above the lungs but below the spine the second shot was through both sholders. We had that quite offten baiting for bears newbies would inevatably shoot high becase of the steep angle shooting from the tree stand. As far as I gather the initial hit knocks them out but since nothing too vital is hit when they recover they can then go a long way.

I am of the school of any reasonable follow up shot should be taken. Though I did see a video once of a moose standing there with blood gushing out of a heart shot then I probably let the thing figure out it is dead.
 
I saw a coyote totally recover from a .270 130g.......John G. from Tyler, Texas was with me on a moose hunt and shot a coyote with his Ruger 270. The coyote flopped, rolled and dropped and lay there, as expected.

As we walked up, I noted the blood in the snow big time. Then he got up. And left. Wasnt limping, etc.

John told all his buddies to take something bigger than a .270 to Canada if you
plan on shooting coyotes.

I don't know where John hit him. But John is convinced the coyote died and was reincarnated as a coyote.
 
Had an antelope try that this year, shot him at distance, sent him cartwheeling , then as I approached he got up and tried to disappear, 2nd shot halted this. Found that the 1st shot had nicked the skull leaving a 3/8 inch furrow, so I think I must have knocked him cold, the 2nd was through the heart/lungs, so that stopped his clock :mrgreen:
 
I have seen four or five deer drop at the shot and then get up and run away after being shot in the neck or head.The impact stunned the animals but was not always lethal as a couple of the deer had to be shot a second time and another had to be tracked a great distance.For this reason ,I do not use head or neck shots.
 
I've had only one deer drop at the shot and then get up and run, but it was admittedly not the best shot placement.

My experience with bears is like yours, I've seen quite a few get knocked over, and then scramble to thier feet to hightail it out of there, even if they die within 50 yards or so.

Steadygirls bear this year was like that- She shot it very well through both lungs, and the shot knocked it down, into a small ditch. It scrambled to get up again, and she nailed it through the neck.

(She had a very wise mentor that told her "make the first shot COUNT and then cycle that action REALLY HARD AND FAST in case you need a follow up!) :D :D
 
Had a number of deer go down only to get back up... actually lost one this way after handelling the rack then walking away from the dead deer to get some help :oops:
I watch them very closely with the gun on them now :idea:
Another hole in the boiler room can't hurt... shoot them again if your in doubt :wink:
 
The strangest occurance of a deer regsining his feet was a whitey I shot several years ago with a 303 using 150 gr. Sabre Tips, the old CIL load. I hit him right in the boiler room while he was bunched ready to leap a page( sheep) wire fence. At the shot he dropped and I put the gun down. Almost immediatley he was getting to his feet despite being tangled in the wire. Getting himself free he took off and I followed up with a second shot to the h/l area. When dressing him out we noticed the two shots were both in the chest and exited. One was right to left and the other about 4 inches away was left to right. Needles to say their was nothing but liguid in the chest cavity. Both shots had given excellent expansion supposedly because they struck a rib on entry. Exit wounds were enormous clipping part of a rib, destroying 2 central ribs and clipping part of the rib on the other side of the central ones.About 4 inch wounds.
 
Last year I shot a 3 point buck, at the shot he dropped, flipped and flopped for about 10 seconds and then got up and F**KED off!!! I couldn't believe it!!! Anyhow, I recovered him about an hour later after bringing in some "help"... :mrgreen:

Cheers
Jay
 
Shot a deer last year,good hit he didn't drop.Ran for about 200 yrds straight down,leaving a 2' x8'' bloodpatch every leap.When I got to him and opened him up there was no blood left in him.The bullet hit ribs and deflected took out five or six ribs and send bone/bullet fragments all through his vitals.After seeing the damage I couldn't beleive that muley could take off like that.He was easy to track :lol:
 
that bull I got with Willer last year Todd got back up after a 40 yard 458 round went through him and we had a bull at ootsa get back up after a 225Gr 338 slug went through his chest @ 75 yards , I found over the years that the closer you are to an animal the better chances of it getting back up (if its pysicaly capible of doing so) like within 50-75 yards sort of distance could just be the suprise of being hit that hard , both bulls didnt have a clue we were there, most of my moose have just stood there after the shot , then got the heaves then fell over , bears usualy just run off a few yards and die, Willers made it maybe 10 meters off the road and piled up this fall , I imagine it would also depend on what you shot it with as well , IE 458 or a 30-06 , something we will have to watch for next week when open season hits here and I know there just starting to rutt now so should be a camp carnage around here :twisted: :lol:
 
I,ve had a moose do this to me. I shot him and he dropped instantly drove the boat up to him and my buddy gets oput of the boat to put a rope around the legs so we can get him into deeper water to float him back to camp. Just as he put the rope around the leg the moose stands up. Well my buddy jumps into the boat and back out the other side, and I have to grab my rifle. The good thing is we actually have his leg tied up and I put another shot into him behind his ear. I just about fell out of the boat laughing at my buddy after it had all settled down. It just proved how careful you have to be though. I'm glad the moose tried to go back into the bush istead of into the boat.
Jordan
 
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