There is a reason I do all of my own processing from the feild to table.I have seen a few things that turned my stomach,my buddy got a big 14 pointer one year towards the end of the season,he was walking in the woods and saw him bedded looking in the opposite direction,He shot him and he never made it 10 yards,when we skinned him out I realized he was a warrior who survived some serious poaching attempts,he had everything from buckshot( illegal back then,) to .22 ri fire bullets under his hide,one front shoulder was seized solid and the leg joint was frozen,he was making do using 3 legs,the hide had burned down and turned to leather like a paw pad.He only had one eye,I'll say it was the oldest buck Ive ever seen,not a single tooth left in his mouth.poor ol fella.
Another was a buck I shot with a .308 in rifle season,as I was feild dressing him,I reached into his chest and something nicked my fingers,I thought it was a broken rib from my shot,but once I got him dressed out I could see he only had one lung and the other was shrivelled up like it had been punctured for a long time,he had big clots in him and as I skinned him I found about 6 inches of arrow and a broad head sealed in a cyst like growth,wit the broad head poking into the chest cavity where it got one lung.Not a mark on thr hide anywhere,it was completely healed over and new hair grew back.Unreal how tough they are.