Sad find today in the woods.

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tactical870 said:
He found one old wound in mine and another 3 healed over bullet wounds (and parts of a powerbelt bullet) in the other buck. :(
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Common down your way..I know a fella from Warsaw who was caught with buck head in the back of his truck, that he had cut off with a chainsaw. Apparently shot in a local ball diamond.

Mine had #4 buckshot in it, and two others had birdshot under the hide. Common here to.
 
Our camp owner shot a forkhorn buck a couple of years ago out of sheer pity. Poor deer had one of the front legs shot just above the elbow and the infection had already started, just skin and bones.
It was during the early December muzzleloading season and he estimates that the deer was shot during the mid November rifle season.
 
yorgi said:
Our camp owner shot a forkhorn buck a couple of years ago out of sheer pity. Poor deer had one of the front legs shot just above the elbow and the infection had already started, just skin and bones.
It was during the early December muzzleloading season and he estimates that the deer was shot during the mid November rifle season.
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I shot a button buck 4 years ago that was in the same shape as well with a broken and infected leg. I do know the guy who wounded it though and that was due to a failed Bushnell Trophy scope which was replaced under warranty.
 
Its hunting not a slaughter house not all the shots hit there mark some deer get wounded and that the way it is no matter what system you use.
 
Western hunters know how to hunt deer. .. you dont set up to push in the next mile where he ran, but go to the second mile where it will be. Milo had it right and knew his s**t.:)
 
7mmlefty said:
Western hunters know how to hunt deer. .. you dont set up to push in the next mile where he ran, but go to the second mile where it will be. Milo had it right and knew his s**t.:)
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Omg... Milo was a tard who got lucky... You need to look up his story and read it... I am not against drives or anything but milo is the hail mary poster boy...
 
bearkilr said:
Just to clarify that your method is southern Manitoba open-prairie, agricultural/grain land area hunting.

Lots of areas in MB where that doesn't work. :)
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I've hunted southern Manitoba(Deloraine area)...about 10 years ago .
Lots of big fields alright but also lots of gullies/ravines/washes that were choked with scrub Oak .
We took turns pushing bush but mostly they put some of us old timers on stand ..I didn't shoot any BIG bucks..... but I did shoot 5 deer.... a fun way to hunt .
Some of the younger guys sorta poked fun at me for carrying my version of Varmint Als Bi-Fur-Pod ...but soon they were calling me "The Sniper".....Good times:)
 
I have shot four moose and at least two deer and 1 Elk that were carrying "lead", all healed over, so at least the year previous.
I shot a decent Bull that had a bullet embedded in the tough backstrap [the yellow sinewy strip that runs along the spine] and a 22 bullet lodged against a rib. Guess he was lucky till I saw him, lol.
Shot a muley doe with a large diameter bullet lodged in her shoulder, up against the blade. Virtually no expansion, so suspect a long range "hail mary" shot.
5x5 Bull Elk had an unexpanded bullet in the right ham, only went in about 2", so also must have been a long range poke. Was a 170 grain .321" bullet [32 Special] Had some gristle grown around it, but no sign of infection.
Game animals are not always shown the respect due them, because some "hunters" are inclined to take "hope" shots.
It is always sad to find a dead animal that has been shot and obviously suffered before it finally died.
If you shoot an animal, and fail to recover it, that will stick with you, and remind you to be more cautious in the future.
Regards, Eagleye.
 
Wow a deer that was not recovered,there are possibly millions of cows, chickens, pigs, sheep,ducks ect that suffer every day!
It is a piece of walking meat,we put it on a pedestal because it is a deer.I enjoy the comments like not me I have never ever wounded any deer and then you find out in another thread he has only shot one in his life time.
I have wounded deer,rabbits, coyote, pheasant, grouse, ground hog, crows, squirrels, pigeon,fox and others.Intentional no but if you shoot at enough animals it will happen.There are the rare few who will swear they have never ever wounded anything,I say not a duck hunter??
Farm animals are treated far worse than any wild game I have seen ,but it is all just walking meat.So lets dry our eyes and worry about the one real thing to worry about, do I have enough Gold!!!! Remember whether you eat it or something else does, it is all just s**t in the end!!!
 
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blargon said:
And he shot at the buck 9 times...
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LOL.... not only him at times.... the first two times they jumped it some of the others in his hunting party slung lead at it also...lol....

Furthermore, he shot it once and it went down.... ran into a thicket.... then, when he went in to get it it was on it's feet so he shot it again... then as it laid dying he put another round into it.....lol
 
senior said:
pick..pick..pick :rolleyes:

equal...the same as or as in 1 to 1 ratio or 50 to 50 ratio, or 1,000 to 1,000 ratio.

Or perhap you have a different meaning :confused:
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Pretty close to equal and I was actually thinking 2 or 3 to 1.

Which in my eyes, is still way to high and unacceptable.
 
Waterfowler said:
Pretty close to equal and I was actually thinking 2 or 3 to 1.

Which in my eyes, is still way to high and unacceptable.
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for 2011, there was a combined (gun and archery) quota of 92830 deer tags for ontario and i'm sure around 75% were allocated, so we'll call it 70000 tags issued this season. some get extra tags, so we'll say 60,000 hunters got 70,000 tags. lets use a conservative figure and say 50% of them pulled the trigger. going by your previous guess of one wounded for every one harvested, that would suggest at least 30,000 deer were wounded in ontario this year.

2 or 3 recovered for every 1 wounded? that's still at least 10,000-15,000 deer that were wounded this season. judging by the evidence i've seen in the 14 years i've been hunting, i'd say your estimate is way off. this includes investigating carcasses found in the bush, nobody i know personally has shot a deer with previous hunter inflicted wounds, and talking to local butchers.

i've seen quite a few dead deer in the bush, but the deer that died as a result of poor shot placement can be counted on one hand.



anyone have the numbers for 2010?

-tags allocated
-# of hunters
-success rates
 
canadian hunter312 said:
for 2011, there was a combined (gun and archery) quota of 92830 deer tags for ontario and i'm sure around 75% were allocated, so we'll call it 70000 tags issued this season. some get extra tags, so we'll say 60,000 hunters got 70,000 tags. lets use a conservative figure and say 50% of them pulled the trigger. going by your previous guess of one wounded for every one harvested, that would suggest at least 30,000 deer were wounded in ontario this year.

2 or 3 recovered for every 1 wounded? that's still at least 10,000-15,000 deer that were wounded this season. judging by the evidence i've seen in the 14 years i've been hunting, i'd say your estimate is way off. this includes investigating carcasses found in the bush, nobody i know personally has shot a deer with previous hunter inflicted wounds, and talking to local butchers.

i've seen quite a few dead deer in the bush, but the deer that died as a result of poor shot placement can be counted on one hand.



anyone have the numbers for 2010?

-tags allocated
-# of hunters
-success rates
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