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Over the past few years I have become aware of something that a lot of hunters do, at least ones i've been around and spoken with, and I did the same a few times.
Now I consciously think about it when I arrive upon an animal that has been shot.

Ever get to an animal you have shot and see him try to get to his feet and :eek: you're just amazed

We shot 3 buffalo last yaer and one went down from a 30 06 to the head at 20 yrds. When we got to him he was getting to his feet slowly. we stared in amazement :eek:

Then our senses came back when a guy back in the truck shouted at us to shoot him quick!!!!

I ahve not seen too many people go up to a moose or big animal and see it conscious or getting to his feet and instinctively shoot it.
I have seen a lot of, :eek: :eek:
Then a lot of hurry hurry put him down, .....
You feel like #### for not nailing him immediately, but it;s like your just shocked or something.

Anyone relate
 
I shot my "dead" moose last year at 8ft. He got up after I lung shot him and left him lay for 10 minutes motionless. Walked up to him and he got up and took a short run at me.
 
Not to be out done :redface:

I loaded & brought a dead deer 4 miles in the back of my truck, backed up to the camp & pulled it out, it then jumped up & ran away:eek: :runaway: Fortunetly I was able to grab a gun & catch it trying to get up again 100' in the bush from the camp :rolleyes:

Curly in the camp turned to a new hunter Brent who was watching out the window & told him it was a live release stockin program :)
 
It has not happened to me but a buddy who took a head shot on a bear a couple of springs ago got the suprise of his lfe:eek: He thinks the shot glanced off the skull and knocked the bear out. When my buddy flipped the bear over to get a good look at it woke up. Buddy went one way the bear the other. Needless to say the bear was shot about 100 yards up the same hill the next day with a good solid shoulder shot:D It took him 15 minutes to convine himself it was dead this time............

I still laugh when he tells the story!
 
Walking in to go moose hunting we ran into some real northern red necks hunting in their jeans and jean jacket. As we approached buddy was having a smoke and stop us to tell us he had just shot a bear. As he turns around to point to the place where he had shot it, I noticed a bear climbing an almost vertical 100 foot cliff. I guess buddy put his rfle on a log 50 feet away to light his smoke. That bear was up the cliff faster then the idiot could get to his rifle. Wasted my whole morning looking for an injured bear.
 
I was in my teens and shot my first bear. He was lying in a small depression on a rocky outcrop when I walked up on him. He didn't appear to be breathing, and I don't know why, but I shot him again. At the shot, his back leg shot straight out them dropped limp. I could of been introduced to a mauling had I not taken the shot, and that lesson has stayed with me.
 
You only have to walk up to one "dead" bear and have it "wake up" on you to forever cure you of anything but a cautious approach to wounded/dead animals.;)
 
Last year I shot a buck with the bow and saw him go down. I waited about fifteen minutes, lowered my bow down, climbed out of my stand, got the bow, reloaded it (crossbow) and walked over to the buck, which had fallen in a bit of a swamp. I stopped about four feet short of it to have a good look to see that it was dead...........and he stood up with a rather unhappy look in his eye. :eek: I whacked him again in the middle of his chest and got the hell out of Dodge and back up my tree stand.

Twenty minutes or so later when I approached him again (with a loaded bow, believe me :rolleyes: ) he was deader than a doornail.

I had learned my lesson quite a few years ago when a "dead" doe hoofed me in the nuts. I had seen my buddy "kill" it with a head shot, saw the deer go down, and was dragging her to a drier spot to clean her when she took offence at being dragged. That one is the only deer I ever killed with a knife! :p

Doug
 
I've done in about a half dozen deer with a knife (mostly spine shots) but always approach with the rifle at ready until I'm sure the animal is in no condition to up and run away. I just don't like blowing heads off if I don't have to, I guess.
 
On two separate occasions I have had a large doe, as well as a 5 pt bull moose jump to its feet about 6 feet away from me after I spine shot them. In both cases I thought they were down and out. They just didn't know they were dead. Deer are ungodly strong, pound for pound, but you really get an appreciation for just how powerful a moose is when you have one lunge at you at close range.:eek:
 
shepodyguide said:
They just didn't know they were dead. Deer are ungodly strong, pound for pound, but you really get an appreciation for just how powerful a moose is when you have one lunge at you at close range.:eek:
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Exactly....they don't know they're dead!! Nor do they want to accept it. Out of the deer/moose we've shot, I find the deer have more "after life staying power". Unreal.

Moose really scare you though when they jump. I shot a cow a couple years ago, from about 400 yards. Waited and then went to look for her. I couldn't find a spec of blood, a footprint....nothing.
I started to chalk it up to a miss. Hey, 400 yards and I missed, no shame in that....the animal will live to be hunted another day.
Nope, I hit her alright...pretty much dead nuts, I became aware of that when I startled her and she jumped up not 15 feet away from me..CRASH.
I thought I'd shat myself!!
Natural reaction pulled the rifle up and plugged 2 more into her, and she STILL got 100 yards or so before she accepted the fact!
 
BIGREDD said:
After losing one deer that came back to life... I try to be ready for anything. I also had a turkey come back to life after tagging it and dirving home.
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I'm with Mag girl...have to hear the rest of this story :) C'mon Bigredd ;)
 
I think it was the guy on coyote canada who told of having a scar from putting a rope on a dead coyote's legs and dragging it across a snowy field to skin it. That must have been exciting when it came back to life attached to him by a rope!

My partner shot a coyote last fall that made it about 30 - 40 yards just into the entrance of the bush. It took us half an hour to find it as buddy had walked within a few feet of it without being able to see it in the tall hay and swamp grass.

When we started from the beginning of the trail again I found it laying dead. As I bent over to look at it the back leg kicked out and the head twitched making me think it was alive. I was reassured that I instinctively shouldered my rifle to finish him as quick as possible and end his suffering. It wasn't necessary though as he was dead and clearly had been for some time.

My shooting sticks with spikes on the ends work great for poking in a tender area to test for life. :)
 
sjemac said:
I've done in about a half dozen deer with a knife (mostly spine shots) but always approach with the rifle at ready until I'm sure the animal is in no condition to up and run away. I just don't like blowing heads off if I don't have to, I guess.
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Wouldn't it be nice to have a little 38 for a cou-de-gras (sp???)
 
Always check the eyes,If they are open, Caution says poke em hard anyway. If the eyes are closed WATCH OUT and give em 1 in the ear . I've done that and have them jump up and then fall over.JITC
 
my last moose went down.i waited about fifteen min. keeping an eye on it as he was only forty or so yards away from me.one of my partners comes by where i was standing. i show him where the moose dropped and said i'm going over. he wanted to come but i told him to stay and keep your eyes on it.i circle around the moose get to a spot where its all wide open. i get to with in ten feet and the SOB gets on his feet.theres nothing between us and the only thing that came to me was to take a step backwards .he had one hell of a pissed off look in his eyes when my partner fired .moose looked his way when i brought up my gun and put him down for good
 
Lol...last year I took a nice bear and a buddy and my wife helped me roll him over to begin the gutting process. Turned him over and I start to gut him with the knife.......half way up I look at the wife who was near it's head and say "okay......now if starts to wake up you let me know" Man the look of horror on her face as she stared intently at the bear's face while my buddy and I just grinned at each other. She did not think it was funny when she realized we were kidding.
 
dw said:
Lol...last year I took a nice bear and a buddy and my wife helped me roll him over to begin the gutting process. Turned him over and I start to gut him with the knife.......half way up I look at the wife who was near it's head and say "okay......now if starts to wake up you let me know" Man the look of horror on her face as she stared intently at the bear's face while my buddy and I just grinned at each other. She did not think it was funny when she realized we were kidding.
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man i gotta get my wife out for bear season that sounds like fun.:D

i have been lucky in the fact i havent come across an animal playing possum YET. but i have only been out hunting on my own for about 6 years give or take. so give it time


man i definatly gotta try that bear gutting trick on my wife :D
 
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