Wounded deer
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hunter7mmRM
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- Northern Alberta
unreal. wow
I don't like animals to suffer either, but this guy looks pretty happy and healthy. The upside of a wound like that in the late fall is that the cold helps prevent infection until the wound can heal. Personally, I'd prefer to go through some pain and heal up rather than be dead. Considering I saw about 5 deer carcasses this fall with nasty broken legs that had healed and the deer were healthy when shot its surprising what they overcome. If I saw the deer start to waste away it would be time to intervene quickly.
There is no nanny state in the wild.....
Avalonthas
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- Toronto ON
Looks healthy, but if the deer were to be eating on the ground or playing around something large and bumped its head near the object it would disturb the area and its pretty close to its eye.
Nature is crazy!
Nature is crazy!
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- Prince Albert, Sk
I don't like that video.
The clown that figured he could head shoot a deer with an arrow I like even less.
The clown that figured he could head shoot a deer with an arrow I like even less.
wait a minute... I'm from Sherbrooke Qc, that happened about a few klics from where I live (no i didn't do it because I shot a bigger buck that year 
)... Yep I can tell you guys that some of the hunters here are real phucktards! I don't get why you would try a head shot with a bow or a crossbow in this case.
For those of you who were wondering, they did in fact caught the buck and they ended up killing it.
)... Yep I can tell you guys that some of the hunters here are real phucktards! I don't get why you would try a head shot with a bow or a crossbow in this case. For those of you who were wondering, they did in fact caught the buck and they ended up killing it.
wait a minute... I'm from Sherbrooke Qc, that happened about a few klics from where I live (no i didn't do it because I shot a bigger buck that year
For those of you who were wondering, they did in fact caught the buck and they ended up killing it.
My french is a little rusty, but doesn't it say in the comments it was hit by a vehicle then put down?
I witnessed a deer take an arrow in the side of the head. We got surprised by a couple deer coming up out of a river valley. Dropped to our knees and watched.
The buck was pretty much on high alert when the arrow was loosed, his head up, ears forward, facing to our left. The buck jumped the string, on a 25 yard shot, and took the arrow in the right side of his head, as he swapped ends to bail back in the direction he came from. It looked like a good shot from directly behind, until the buck swapped ends, anyway.
Point being, just because the arrow ended up there, does not mean that it was aimed there. Stuff happens.
The one I saw. It ran off with my bud's arrow stuck in it's head beside the antler. The deer was seen a while later without it, and, IIRC, the arrow was found. If the shooter cares to speak up, maybe he'll clarify, I know he is around here a bit.
Cheers
Trev
Brutus
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Yes, I was the guilty one on that day. It was passed on to me the deer took it in the upper neck in a downward angle, and not in the head.
Lesson learned 110%. Someone that knew the nieghbors that fed local deer, said they gently approached it (the one I flesh wounded)while thier teenage daughter hand fed it, and actually cut the arrow out, with a surface flesh wound done to the deer. Two bad things happened on my part, I was aiming heart/lung and the deer jumped the string. Number two one of the mechanical blades failed to open as advertised and turned the straight course, causing it to kind of pivot on itself, instead of punching straight through, thus creating the shallow angling wound. Word got back to myself through the grapevine of mutual friends. The farming community of Baildon is not large by any standard. They claim it recovered alright.
Really, my bow was not fast enough for these type of broadhead, and I did not know any better at the time. It's my fault I believed the local merchant and his mob, that my archery tackle (PSE Impact) was up to the task. Spitfires (crap) were brand new and expensive then.
This was a very humbling experience for myself.
It was afterwards I switched to a fixed blade Muzzy. I had much better results in Riverhurst with my last archery harvest. Twenty two yards, and one dead deer, using the one arrow, followed by a 30 minute knee-knocking wait in the treestand.
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Yep...yet another fine example of inexperienced,clueless,fuctard wannabe bowhunters taking rifle shots with crossbows.
Vote NO to boltguns being legalised for use during archery seasons!
Maybe,maybe not.
Deer could have been quartering away looking back, and the shooter shot high.
Don't slam bowhunters.
How many wounded deer are a result of the rifle/shotgun hunt?
I am not a bow hunter but you are right, I have heard stories of rifle hunters shooting the jaw or nose off deer trying head shots, to me it is a shot that most hunters shouldn't take and I never have.
That makes two of us. The law is one thing, this is pure suffering and hard to even watch. Let me stick an arrow like that in a person and tell then they are doing fine. BS
