Just a question.
The biggest buck I have ever shot, was a put down, a mercy kill. Personally, I don't count this as my trophy. I've kept the rack, but never scored it. The worst thing about it, is he was hit on private land by a poacher shooting off the road.
It was a massive 5X5 on my dad's alfalfa field with a few does on Dec 7/05. He is obviously hit, severe limp on left front quarter and although trying to mount a doe in the field falling down.
My younger brother and I were checking some scraps we had thrown out on a back field from butchering our deer that year for coyotes and seen this wounded buck.
So, we stopped, I got out and took a little bit hurried shot at him at 200 yds or so as the buck and does bolted when we stopped. I missed him cleanly.
So, we got back into the truck and went off the field onto and around onto access road that runs along the quarter. This took about 5 minutes, and we located this wounded buck maybe 200 yds from the original point we seen him at the first time, but had to drive around to see him.
This is one of the reasons it wasn't really MY trophy. A healthy buck this size would have run at least a half mile, not stopped at let me get out of the truck and put a round into him which finally anchored him. The truck obviously is the other reason, a bit of a mechanical advantage.
When we cleaned him, we found the wound to the front left leg, looked to be somewhere around .30 caliber(hard to tell with the infection in the local), went into the high leg and took out a bit of the sternum, but not enough to bring him down. There was about a liter or liter and a half of geenish-white pus in the soft tissue around the wound and the whole carcass smelt fevered or off. We ended up hanging it for a few days to see if the dog would touch the gut pile or the whole thing was a loss. The dog wouldn't eat it, nor the coyotes when we threw it out back, the buzzards ended up eating it.
What is your take on this??
The biggest buck I have ever shot, was a put down, a mercy kill. Personally, I don't count this as my trophy. I've kept the rack, but never scored it. The worst thing about it, is he was hit on private land by a poacher shooting off the road.
It was a massive 5X5 on my dad's alfalfa field with a few does on Dec 7/05. He is obviously hit, severe limp on left front quarter and although trying to mount a doe in the field falling down.
My younger brother and I were checking some scraps we had thrown out on a back field from butchering our deer that year for coyotes and seen this wounded buck.
So, we stopped, I got out and took a little bit hurried shot at him at 200 yds or so as the buck and does bolted when we stopped. I missed him cleanly.
So, we got back into the truck and went off the field onto and around onto access road that runs along the quarter. This took about 5 minutes, and we located this wounded buck maybe 200 yds from the original point we seen him at the first time, but had to drive around to see him.
This is one of the reasons it wasn't really MY trophy. A healthy buck this size would have run at least a half mile, not stopped at let me get out of the truck and put a round into him which finally anchored him. The truck obviously is the other reason, a bit of a mechanical advantage.
When we cleaned him, we found the wound to the front left leg, looked to be somewhere around .30 caliber(hard to tell with the infection in the local), went into the high leg and took out a bit of the sternum, but not enough to bring him down. There was about a liter or liter and a half of geenish-white pus in the soft tissue around the wound and the whole carcass smelt fevered or off. We ended up hanging it for a few days to see if the dog would touch the gut pile or the whole thing was a loss. The dog wouldn't eat it, nor the coyotes when we threw it out back, the buzzards ended up eating it.
What is your take on this??
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