Cut a deer loose from a fence today.

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Young buck almost made it over the fence by my Grandparents house. Managed to stick a foot into the page wire and wrap it around his ankle on the fall down the other side.

Was pretty close to done when I cut him loose, still there when I checked on him a few (10-15?) minutes later, so I hauled him to someplace a little safer from the resident coyote population, dumped a flake of hay next to him, and left him to recover or die as he decides.

Will see in the AM if he is gone under his own power, with help (ie:bloodstains), or if he becomes this weekend's coyote bait.

Other than a few cuts on his legs from the barb wire top strand, he was not too badly off, but pretty beat from hanging by a leg for however long he was there. Would have been a dead deer if I had taken the dogs on a different route for their walk tonight.

Between the stress of hanging their and the energy spent thrashing around (by the arc of dirt strewn up around the site) I figure he was about ready to give up. He was trying to get away but seemed unable to get any of his legs beneath him.

Time will tell.

This years baby by the look of him, and with about enough horn to 'almost' break the skin on his head.

Cheers
Trev
 
Well done Trev !! I did the same with a live wolf years ago. At first I was going to kill it as I wanted the nice hide but as I got up to it the wolf pissed and crapped all over itself .It was hanging upside down and the rear leg was wrapped up in the barbed wire. I then decided to cut it loose instead and it never snapped or growled once and just laid there after I cut it loose. I went back the next morning and there were lots of tracks around and no wolf.
 
Good job!! My buddy get them caught in his horse fencing often. Sometimes they are running with the horses. Sometimes they are stuck to the fence. For him if they are injured he will shoot them and put them in the freezer. Too many coyotes around here. They don't need any help.
 
Several years ago, I used a Leatherman to cut a fawn loose from the top wire of a fence. Bounced away.
 
Good for you!

I always hear and read stories like this about hunters saving deer from certain death, have yet to hear a PETA member doing the same...
Guess it's too hard to see any deer in distress at your local Starbucks.
 
yorgi said:
Good for you!

I always hear and read stories like this about hunters saving deer from certain death, have yet to hear a PETA member doing the same...
Guess it's too hard to see any deer in distress at your local Starbucks.
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Well said! But hunting is like soooooo cruel! Give me a grande latte with a shot of over roasted child labor coffee.
 
[sarcasm]amazing how a rabid hunter could perform such an act...how did you overcome your blood lust long enough to perform a rescue?[/sarcasm]

The peta crowd doesn't realize that it is a love of nature and animals that has hunters afield every year, not some ridiculous killing frenzy.

Good on you Trev!
 
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