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- Blaster land, Okanagan BC
Agreed, the right way to do it is to cut the meat to the bone with a knife and then use a saw to go through the bone.
Found a surprise in my whitetail
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Agreed, the right way to do it is to cut the meat to the bone with a knife and then use a saw to go through the bone.
Buddy was still hunting for whitetails with his bow in north central Wisconsin . Getting close to the end of the season when he spotted a standing buck in the brush and decided to release a hail Mary shot . He immediately herd a thunk of the arrow impact but the buck was gone and no blood anywhere . He thought his arrow may have hit a tree and searched all of the trees around the area and found nothing . The next year found him back in the same area but this time hunting out of a tree stand . He took a nice buck that had a broad head embedded in it's forehead . The broad head had penetrated into the skull and the bone grew around it . It was the exact same kind of broad head he'd been using for years so it was likely the same deer he had fired the hail Mary shot at the year before .
I killed a nice young bull in blow down a few years ago that jumped in a little gully and died. It had it's very small left antler detouring from normal direction to a single point terminating right at his left eye. Paunched and quartered it and ran it to my buddy's place on the quad. When I skinned out the quarters we found a rather large knob of bone, right up against a rib on the outside between the skin and the rib on the left front quarter. Thought maybe a tumor at first as it was visible from the hair side. It probably weighed 1/2 lb. I cut the rib out and smashed the knob of calcified tissue/bone with the back of my axe, only to find a 22 rimfire slug barely deformed in the center. I mentioned it to a wildlife biologist buddy who figured there was a relationship with the slug and the strange antler formation, suggesting the healing of the rib stole the calcium from the left side(same side) antler growth. Who would have thunk it?
