Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Bowhunting First time you stuck a deer with an arrow did. You hear it hit ?

I shot my first doe in Jan so it was SUPER cold.

This was many, many years ago - but I remember hearing the arrow hit the chest cavity with a double tha-thump like noise.

Funny thing is, I don’t think I paid any attention to that noise on deer 2 thru 30ish… but I think I still heard it.

Do you guys hear your arrow hit your deer ?

What you don't want to hear is a loud whack, like a bat hitting a tree if you do you know you've hit shoulder

My very first archery buck was right under my stand. Busted his spine and it made quite a racket. Short track job though.

Smacked one last weekend..... heard the thump.
I anxiously await and listen for it each time. Music to my ears. hahaha

Very much so. Hit forward right in the neck, broadhead stuck in the vertebrae. DRT.

When she fell it snapped the ferrule off right at the insert. I had that vertebrae with the broadhead stuck in it for years and then it was lost.

Hoyt Bow Bullet 145 grain, 31" Easton XX75 2317. Clearwater Powermag compound pulling just over 80#.

You swatted her w a telephone pole LOL

I ran those 145 bowbullets on 2317s out of an 84# Oneida Strike Eagle.

Never did ahoot a deer w that thing. Was a fun bow.

Sometimes i hear the thump, sometimes not
Last bow deer was a thud and it stuck in opp shoulder so deer kinda tripped. Never did get back up.

Never had any other deer stop them, the 2317 that is.

Those were an okay head but fragile as hell.

Was a senior in HS and thought I had a hell of a rig.

Heard the first and still hear the impact all these years later. With experience hearing the arrow impact helps diagnose where you struck the deer. The sound of the impact is more data to help figure it all out.

I am glad I have never heard a arrow hit a should bone….

I heard the whack of shoulder bone hit once, was w recurve. Deer got a boo boo and walked off.
Too bad I wasn't running a heavier draw weight compound, woulda gone through.

I hear it every time and it's different depending on where you hit it. This is how I'd describe it. A good sound like if you get a double lung pass through is more like a Thwaap, like a thick book being slammed shut. A bad sound is like what happened to me Thursday night. Unfortunately I got a high shoulder shot on a doe and hit the spine with a loud Whack. The arrow stuck in about half way. Had good blood, but the bitch wouldn't die. Even after I put the Buck 110 to use, she was slow to expire. Not the outcome I intended.

I’ve arrowed three this year, never heard any of them hit. All were close range, less than 20 yards,with an Iron Will BH. All pass throughs and short blood trails. Over 43 years of bowhunting, I’ve arrowed quite a few, I suppose there was a thump but I actually don’t recall hearing it.

What I remember of the Oneida bows, was they were so loud, hearing protection for the shooter was a good idea. W

I zone out with both a bow and a rifle. Can't explain it but it is like everything shuts off except for the sight picture and the movement of my trigger finger. Honestly I don't even hear my rifle when I pull the trigger on a deer. After the shot rifle or bow sound gradually returns like turning up the radio. Like a out of body experience almost. I can see why some people call it a non drug induced high to hunt.

I always hear it. It’s a cool sound. It’s even louder when you shoot a big ole boar feral hog. Most hogs let out a squeal when hit, too.

I have had deer grunt when hit too.

I hit one with a Rage 2" cut and it sounded like I broke a 2X4 over its back and looked like I threw a hatchet thru it.

yes i remember my first arrow slicing into a doe , that was 50 + years ago with a bear broadhead/ fiberglass arrow and using a Ben Person recurve a few years before the compound bows,and i was hooked on archery after that !

No, 1985 and the wind was howling on the SD plains.