Possible bad shot

[hoyt30]

Shot one trailing a doe this morning. Found Long grey hair no blood. He ran off twitching and tucking his tail. He got on a neighbor so waiting for permission to track. All the hair is telling me maybe a graze up high. But the tail is making me think he was fatally hit.

 

[EastTNHunter]

Tucked tail says gut shot to me

 

[knightrider]

After a few deer in my lifetime the tail means exactly squat, ive seen heart and double lunged deer run off ringin their tail, tail tucked, tail straight out, tail flagging like a miss!

 

[JeepKuntry]

After a few deer in my lifetime the tail means exactly squat, ive seen heart and double lunged deer run off ringin their tail, tail tucked, tail straight out, tail flagging like a miss!

The 8 I shot about 10 days or so ago trotted off tail in the air. Swore I had missed but I had not! So the tail isn't a sign of hit imo either.

 

[megalomaniac]

Weapon? Caliber? Bullet? Shot angle?

 

[MickThompson]

Walking and twitching says no bone hit to me

 

[Snake]

After a few deer in my lifetime the tail means exactly squat, ive seen heart and double lunged deer run off ringin their tail, tail tucked, tail straight out, tail flagging like a miss!

Yes and the ole a shot deer won't go up is wrong too . A friend and I trailed a buck I shot with a bow ...he went down a ridge and back up . That's when I thought I hadn't shot a kill shot but we found him . He walked until he ran plumb out of blood ...I guessed at least 1/2 mile . The broadhead creased his heart and he still went that far .

 

[hoyt30]

Weapon? Caliber? Bullet? Shot angle?

Tikka t3lite, .308, federal powershok 150 grain broadside uphill 20 degrees.