Spring discoveries!

[0faustus0]

So, I went scouting on my land today. Beautiful spring day out there …. no mosquitoes and no ticks yet … the geese honking above … and the beavers catching my scent and slapping their tails in the pond.

The snow is mostly gone … it had rained the day before … and I followed a deer trail through some thickets in the center of my property. And half way through a thicket I found a broken off crossbow bolt …. just beside the deer trail.

Hmmmmm … my first thought was … oh oh … one of my neighbors missed his shot last fall and wounded a deer.

The bolt looked clean …(it had rained the day before) and I was curious …. so I picked it up … inspected it …. and then I realized that that bolt was hollow … and filled with blood … and I had just poured all that blood over my trousers and gloves…. agrrrrrr ….. ok … not the end of the world.

But now ... after my blood "accident" ... I am wondering …. ??

Could it be that that bolt was fired this spring???

I guess my question is …. could all that blood in that hollow bolt “survive” the winter out there and still be liquid blood today?

 

[brybenn]

If it froze inside the shaft yes it could make it thru from last season. When i naturally air dry my skulls i let nature do the work and if its to cold for flies and maggots the blood in the pail stays. It eventually dries but rain will make a red liquid with some thickness to it. The shaft may have been mostly rain stained by residual blood

 

[kc34]

If it froze inside the shaft yes it could make it thru from last season. When i naturally air dry my skulls i let nature do the work and if its to cold for flies and maggots the blood in the pail stays. It eventually dries but rain will make a red liquid with some thickness to it. The shaft may have been mostly rain stained by residual blood

x2
I was thinking the same thing.

 

[Why not?]

Take a close look as the next roast you get out of the freezer thaws out.

Ted