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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Kpete on November 28, 2011, 04:54:02 pm

Title: Buck down
Post by: Kpete on November 28, 2011, 04:54:02 pm
Friends,
Shot a 4x4 buck this morning.  12 yd shot, Tusker broadhead, right behind front leg-saw him go down in seconds after running 60  yds.  Yee haw.   Rolled him over to gut him and found a nasty wound on his belly inside his hind leg.  Skin over ham was gone and muscle was raw and deteriorating.  Old and new gut contents smeared over wound.   
I had a hunter walk by that stand a couple weeks ago that had hit a buck.  He was not trailing the deer but looking.  He refused help in recovery, saying he would come back in a few hours and try to find him.
This buck this morning came in to a grunt call and a few clacks of a rattle bag.  When he came in he was looking for the deer he had heard.
Game and Fish people recommended that the meat not be consumed.
Good hunt-disappointed because we like our venison.
Title: Re: Buck down
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on November 28, 2011, 05:25:27 pm
The best part is you took him out prior to the nasty winter setting in. That would be a miserable, slow death for him. Good job