Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: osage outlaw on December 16, 2016, 08:59:05 pm
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I pulled my camera card today and noticed that this little spike has a spot on each side that looks like its been shot from an elevated position. I have pictures of him from earlier in the year and the spots weren't there. It looks like it might have been a high single lung shot. I'm guessing its from an arrow. It wasn't mine or anyone else hunting our property. He seems doing OK.
Entrance
(http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv22/Outlawstaves/MFDC0898_zps6we7wdsq.jpg)
Exit
(http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv22/Outlawstaves/MFDC0905_zpsvtbb7hve.jpg)
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Dang!
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Yup, looks like a tree shot. Cross Bow??
On account of, it must have passed clear through.
Slick blade. Not much infection visable.
Not much wiggle room where it looks like a shaft
passed through, OUCH
Zuma
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It wasn't from me or anyone else hunting our property.
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It wasn't from me or anyone else hunting our property.
Be careful, it is starting to seem like you know a little more
than you are letting on to. >:D Ohoooo no not me. :laugh:
Zuma
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A thought-- ???
It would be informative to know, maybe in
the future if you harvest this lucky rascal,
where exactly the path of the shaft was.
Osage CSI
Zuma
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I know where all of my arrows went this year. None of them were at a spike. My dad and brother in law won't shoot them so I know it wasn't them. We got new neighbors this year. I'm pretty sure they are baiting with corn. If I had to guess I'd say it was from them.
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I wouldn't look at it as a blame game. ???
If it was an arrow, the placement that
shows on the spike imo was pretty
forgivable. If the deed took place illeaglly,
that would be different.
If you harvest him as an 8 or better--WOW
What a memory.
Zuma
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Clint when he grows up and you get to shoot him at least he has a good aiming spot on him. 😆
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They are tougher than gaiven credit for.In Iowa a doe tag can go on those spikes.It has to be forked here.
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Yea that's a tough one alright. He might even be a zombie that couldn't of missed by much angle was poor looks like quartering towards shooter. Still wouldn't think that one would still be walking around.
Bjrogg
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Not a great angle but it's still amazing that he survived.
Kevin
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I think you have a spot on the lens. I know anything can happen, but hard to believe a deer would survive that shot.
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Could be on the lens? Any spots on other pictures at about that time?
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Humm, The spot lines up vertically
but not horizontally?? ???
Zuma
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The spot is not on the camera lens. I have other pictures of the deer walking around and the spots are on it.
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If his hide ever gets tanned you'll see the answer from the scars.
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I think you have a spot on the lens. I know anything can happen, but hard to believe a deer would survive that shot.
No doubt. that deer will die every time with an arrow making those marks. That's double lung city. My bet is gore marks from another buck.
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A small buck like that shouldn't be getting into any fights serious enough to leave gore marks. I've watched spikes spar several times and it's nothing that would cause an injury.
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I've never seen a sparring match hurt a deer myself, but getting gored doesn't mean you were looking to spar or fight. Wrong place at the wrong time when a hot doe and a mature buck were around.
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Years ago when I lived in coastal SC the state biologist that was over our hunting club, Joe Hamilton, one of the founders of QDMA, shot a buck opening day of archery season(Aug. 15 in that part of SC) with his bow. He said it looked like a good shot with the arrow sticking out both sides of the deer as it ran off. He never recovered the buck. At the beginning of the rut that year, Joe was hunting with his rifle. He shot a buck following a hot doe. When he went to recover the deer it was the one he had shot with his bow and it still had the arrow going through it, high and behind the buck's shoulders. Obviously it hadn't hit anything vital.
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The first deer I ever shot was a button buck during the firearms season, my buddy Joe shot a nice buck that same day. His dad was a butcher so a few days later he taught us how to butcher our deer. after skinning the deer and taking off the head and legs the next step was to cut it down the middle of the backbone with a saw, I had no problem with mine but when Joe did his, when he got to just behind the shoulder, the saw was'nt cutting so good any more, we spread the halves of the carcass apart and there was an aluminum arrow shaft inside the buck and he had been living with it for several weeks at least.
After that I have always believed that there is an area in what we consider the "Kill Zone" that is not lethal when you hit it.
Kevin
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I don't know but it sure looks like the walking dead to me. The more I look at it the more it seems that has to be a letal shoot if those spots are from a shot.
Bjrogg
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Their may be an un lethal area in a deer's chest but I have never seen it, and I would say that ant it. I have a rule that has always panned out for me, anywhere behind the shoulder and in front of the hind quarter, 4 inches down from the back and 4 inches up from the chest is a dead deer, may not find him but he/she is going to die. Any where else they may die or they may live on, until you get another shot or they die from old age, they are tough but a shot through the chest will take them down.I would say that is a wound from something else. JMO.
Pappy
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Looks like that hit would be fatal, Lucky guy I guess!
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Perhaps he wasn't shot with a broadhead.