urgent tracking advice

Finnbear

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Hey, i will introduce myself properly as soon as i am home. So iam a relatively new Hunter with only 5 deer under my belt and alot of small game. I just has the craziest thing happen and i need some advice.

So i was hunting roe deer last week with my 222rem and botched a shot, the deer didnt react and kept grazing and i figured oh well live and let live i still have moose in the fridge, better check my rifle first altho i know i pulled the shot. Rifle turned out fine.

Now i encountered a limping deer in the same spot and realised i hit its rear leg. So i shoot from 70m to the chest. No reaction, i shoot again, no reaction, i shoot again, a flinch but it slowly limps away. i gave it 5 minutes and carefully looked at the impact site, there is no blood but alot a clear trail. Following the trail the deer bolts from a ditch and crashes trough the brush, and it seems it layed down again 30-40m from me in the dark. Should i go home first? what makes a deer not react to so many shots. I doubt i missed a single ond, with a checked rifle, from 70m, trough a scope from a rest.... for now iam sitting down with my ears open, it cant really get away from here without making a lot of noise due to the crispy snow and dense brush.
 
to ad, if i leave for home now chanses are the wolves will get there before i do, they have been very bold lately.
 
I’d wait an hour then go in after it.
thanks! that did the trick. it got shot in both lungs and had no exit wound. another hit on the liver(follow up shots happened under stress so a bit sloppy) I assume the liver shot made it flinch. very weird how it didnt register the other shot
 
What’s the composition of your bullet? FMJ?


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Fox classic hunter 50gr, expanding monolithics. Still new to the cartridge but those bullets drop moose like a sack of potatoes from my 30-06 so i figured they would do good in my 222 as well. FMJ is not permitted on deer species out here, i only use those in my rihlakko (you would likely know it as a valmet combination rifle) Usually with my 30-06 there is no tracking involved at all but also a gaping tunnel in my dinner.
 
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