How many deer do you injure and not recover every year?

guys like this make me sick to my stomach and paint us all with a bad brush in the public's eys- bad enuff you shot bambi, daddy, but you left him there to die- or too much Disney?
 
I lost two deer in the last 42 years of hunting last one got into a big heavy slash pile I know he was in the bottom somewhere but never found him when I shot it was a nice Picture perfect broadside shot I shood have stuck with A headshot
Pretty much same thing happened when I was in my early 20s shot A small spike it disappear in the Salal it wasn't a long shot shot him in the boiler room and it crawled away on its belly somewhere never found him either
Never did sit very well with me as these are both my mistakes should've stuck to head shots in the thick bush
 
carverk said:
I lost two deer in the last 42 years of hunting last one got into a big heavy slash pile I know he was in the bottom somewhere but never found him when I shot it was a nice Picture perfect broadside shot I shood have stuck with A headshot
Pretty much same thing happened when I was in my early 20s shot A small spike it disappear in the Salal it wasn't a long shot shot him in the boiler room and it crawled away on its belly somewhere never found him either
Never did sit very well with me as these are both my mistakes should've stuck to head shots in the thick bush
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I have seen far more game wounded & lost on attempted head shots than all other shots combined...

I have lost four deer over the past 35 years, but have taken more than 250 in that time... sometimes stuff happens... but for two of the lost deer it was simply my own stupidity... and I gave myself a resounding kick in the azz and promised myself to never make the same mistake again.
 
I have lost one deer in 55+ years of hunting them. Made me ill. I did find him, late the following day, but lost the meat to spoilage.
Gave myself a very stiff reprimand for following up on a shot too quickly.

Had a friend who lost a Bull Moose...we searched for a whole day, trying to track him down, but no luck. He took it so seriously that
he actually contemplated quitting hunting.

If you hunt long enough, you are bound to lose an animal, but attitudes and braggadocio such as the OP mentions is absolutely unacceptable.

Regards, Dave.
 
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Just curious as to how you kill that many deer Hoyt? Were you part of a cull program or something of that nature?
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Three seasons/year of party hunting, travelling and culls... it ads up... plus not many spend the amount of time at it that I do.
 
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I have yet to lose a big game animal.

BUT, I have been asked by others to help try to find their wounded deer, sometimes we do find it, but other times they are lost... It is not a good feeling.

Regards
Jay
 
hoytcanon said:
I have seen far more game wounded & lost on attempted head shots than all other shots combined...

I have lost four deer over the past 35 years, but have taken more than 250 in that time... sometimes stuff happens... but for two of the lost deer it was simply my own stupidity... and I gave myself a resounding kick in the azz and promised myself to never make the same mistake again.
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Just different bush on Haida Gwaii head shots realy help to plant them fast
On the mainland I would never Take head shots but on the Island the deer are shot A lot closer range then the One shot in the interior
 
I haven't shot a lot of deer myself, just two, but my dad drilled into me from day 0 that you will absolutely look until dark and then some if there is the slightest chance you wounded the animal and that you owe it nothing less.
 
I have probably gotten somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 Haida Gwaii deer 6 moose and two black bears

Deer on Haida Gwaii have no predators except hunting and the odd Black bear have evolved to hunting them
It just about deer hunting season year-round amazing deer hunting don't know anybody who has trouble getting there 15 deer yearly limit pus thers the culls and Community hunts
 
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My stepdad used to routinely Send us three boys out he would lend us his his Lee Enfield and one bullet each and tell us to get two deer or one moose and we better com home with at least one bullet in the clip or no more hunting for us
we wouldn't come home till we got something and made sure we still had ammo
 
Definitely a questionable people problem. My maternal family in Manitoba are all avid hunters. All of my uncles taught by their father, who was the forest ranger where they hunt for decades, them in turn teaching their children to hunt at ankle biting ages.

I grew up in BC, a city boy that never learned how to hunt. I got my PAL and will not take the CORE course, or get any type of hunting license until I am 100% confident that I can put any kind if game I will hunt down with an ethical kill. Yahoos that get their PALs and CORE certificates, run to but the purdy rifle and run out to the forest to shoot things are not hunters. They injure and kill for the sick joy and rush of power that makes me cringe.
 
I'm not an avid big game hunter by I do go out and have taken a few deer. I lost one buck and it still haunts me to this day...pretty sure that's what prevented me from diving head first into chasing big game. No one could be harder on me then myself regarding loosing an animal....guess some people don't have any remorse or ethics...sad.
 
I burned a tag on a poorly shot ( missing a foot ) Elk on Saturday. Sorta sucked, but sorta not too. Good clean death as opposed to the coyotes pulling it down...and please, I know there is ' No cruelty in Nature '. But still, being swarmed and likely having your guts pulled out of your rear whilst still alive...not a good death.
But now and again you have to rectify a bad situation...even if you burn a tag doing it.
 
I've not lost one in almost 50 years... but i have and will continue to pass up questionable shots.

Agree with a previous poster ... ethics are learned ... sometimes too slowly, if at all.
 
Um...."0" One shot, one kill. Seriously, I've never lost an animal. If I don't have a shot, I don't take it. I don't take high-risk shots, shots at running game, or screened shots of any kind. Regardless what people say all bullets will deflect, it doesn't matter if it's the latest whiz-bang super magnum or the super slow 45-70.
 
I have lost 1 deer in my life, it was very upsetting for me, definitely not a bragging moment. Mistakes do happen, but after losing the first one, that dude should have started to rethink a few things.
 
thepolinator said:
I have lost 1 deer in my life, it was very upsetting for me, definitely not a bragging moment. Mistakes do happen, but after losing the first one, that dude should have started to rethink a few things.
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It's amazing how a split second decision You made over and over can go bad just that one time definitely something I want to take lightly
 
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