Starting this thread to see if anyone has found dead deer that might have been killed by someone else.
I took a shot at a nice 10 point last year that no one had ever seen before and I followed the blood trail and then it just stopped. I even put dogs on it and they lost the trail. It would be poetic justice if someone on here found the deer I shot last year. This should be fun.
This is a nice rack I found during turkey season this past year when I was walking through the brush calling up some gobblers.
I popped up on a really nice, fast moving deer that stopped at the edge of a sendero near Whitsett several years ago. The deer never flinched, hunched or made any indication that it was hit. No blood - nothing to indicate a hit. Land owner said they found the deer after the season and mounted the antlers above the fire place. The rack on that deer was not the same as the one I shot at, but they swear it was.
The next year I switched from a .243 to a 30-06. Just waiting for another chance at the "deer of a lifetime." Hopefully this year.
I used to hunt outside of whitsett. Been about six years since. We used to hunt on this lease off county road 99. Had a bad problem with poachers. The atascosas river bottom went through our lease. Man it was beautiful and the number of turkey was unbelieveable.
This isn't my deer but one of the guys on my lease shot him last year. He had been shot in the front shoulder right at his brisket and was so poor other bucks were putting him on the ground at the feeder. He wasn't going to make it more than likely. The previous wound he had was nasty and he smelled something awful.
My wife killed a big 9pt one year that someone else had shot. We did not hear a shot that morning, but when he came up, she saw a blody hole in his briskit just in front of his leg. It was not crusted over, or bleeding very much at the time. She decided to go ahead and take him. When We got him on the ground, I could put three fingers into his chest cavity and touch his internal organs. He was still running a doe. Now THAT is determination. I will see if I can somehow capture a digital picture off of the video.
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Thats why I don't let my Hunters take head shots anymore--Don't care who you are!--Tired of tracking a mouth shot deer left to die a slow death is not right at all and I won't have it anymore period. .02 for annie okley!
Thats why I don't let my Hunters take head shots anymore--Don't care who you are!--Tired of tracking a mouth shot deer left to die a slow death is not right at all and I won't have it anymore period. .02 for annie okley!
Thanks........
I once shot a spike that had already been shot in the neck, with a rifle.
He was eating corn like nothing was wrong.
Thats when I found out neck shots aint " miss'em or kill'em, no in between", like I had heard from some so called shot placement experts.
I havent shot a deer in the neck since........
I never lost one with a bullet through the ribs...
Yea, Yea, I know " I've shot 300 deer in the neck and havent lost one yet".
Just not me......
(1)I shot one a few years back that someone had neck shot what appeared to be with a .22. (2)Also found one dead near the fence line. I got some painters putty and some wood stain, did some rebuilding and gave him a proper burial on my wall.
I shot a spike once at the feeder, that I could see had a neck wound. When iI got to him I could see that the corn he was trying to swallow was coming out of the hole in his neck. The whole deer was septic and unedible.
I have, several times, found lead in deer I was butchering. I saved it and have it somewhere.
I shot a spike once at the feeder, that I could see had a neck wound. When iI got to him I could see that the corn he was trying to swallow was coming out of the hole in his neck. The whole deer was septic and unedible.
I have, several times, found lead in deer I was butchering. I saved it and have it somewhere.
I used to hunt outside of whitsett. Been about six years since. We used to hunt on this lease off county road 99. Had a bad problem with poachers. The atascosas river bottom went through our lease. Man it was beautiful and the number of turkey was unbelieveable.
I am on a lease in Menard.I have been on it since 91,
I killed a buck one evening,and my dad and I went to
pick him up.As we went thru the first gate,there was a doe
standing there if you could call it that.Her jaw was blown off
she was so poor that she could bearly stand.My dad had his rifle
with us,and I begged him to kill her.It was after dark,she was in our
headlights.We were right by the ranchers house.It took alot of persuading
be me for my father to pull the trigger.He finally relented and put her
out of her misery.At the time we had a few hunters?,I guess you could call
them that,that bragged about their markmanship of head shots.I still wonder
if they shot her.I would never try it,after seeing the end result...
Yep, we were actually on that ranch even before Arlon built that store. We used to buy all of our corn from him. If we bought 2000 lbs, he'd deliver it to our ranch. It was corn he grew and he would pay his grandkids $.25/bag to bag it for him. Man those were the days. But, all those folks that lived in those shacks just off 99 were poaching dudes. Although, the game warden (Arthur McCall) spent a lot of time hangin' out on our ranch, fishin' etc. So I think it was minimal for us.
Shot this one four years ago. I saw him a feew weeks before but decided to let him go. He was a good looking buck and pretty wide but he could'nt have been more than 3.5 yrs. One of the guys on our lease saw him real late in the evening a few weeks later and decided to take a shot at him at 250 yrds. Well all they found was a little piece of meat and a few specks of blood. A week later I was sitting in my brothers stand and I saw this buck pop out and was like , oh there is that young'n again. But something was different about him. It looked like he had a divit in his back and he kept licking it. I glassed him to see what the deal was and put two and two together and what do you know. All said and done I had to put him out of his missery because he wasn't gonna make it much longer and if the ranch manager found him dead then there would be hell to pay. It took three shots to kill him. I shot him the first time and he dropped like a rock. I waited 20 minutes and then got out and went over to him and he tried to get up. It took two more shots to put him out. I hate doing things like that. Really sucks. I kept the rack but discarded the carcass. It smelled so bad. The whole across his back from the other hunter had exposed his backbone. He was really really in bad shape.
The picture that is on my avatar is a buck that I shot last year and he had the fletching of an arrow stuck in his front shoulder. The skin had already started to grow over the arrow....When we cleaned him, there was nothing in the shoulder or the meat, so somehow the fletching just got stuck! So I guess that I shot another persons deer!:spineyes:
We are on a place in Mountain Home and 2 years ago m brother arrowed a reall strange looking three point that would fall under under a cull on our place. When we recovered the deer there was a scar high on its front right shoulder that had almost completely healed. We figured this must have been what caused the strange horn configuration. When we got to cleaning it and started with the gutting we noticed what appeared to be a rod in its chest cavity. We pulled it out and it was a perfect shaft to a carbon arrow and to this day my brother still shoots that arrow we found and has killed quite a few animals with it.
I too have found a number of head shot game animals that were suffering from their wound.
One was a button buck with the lower jaw nearly shot off. He was trying to get a drink from a pond.
Another had the side of his face removed by a bullet. He was apparently looking at the shooter. All the flesh was gone below his eye down to the bottom of his jaw line.
I helped track a hog that all we ended up finding was the tongue.
I tracked/ran down a wounded hog that was shot "behind the ear"...great shot, but it missed the back of the skull and above the spine. I didn't have anything but a knife with me and I had to tackle it 3 times before I dispatched it. Not much fun with a 180lb class hog.
Shot this 8 pt buck last year in East Tx, he had a slight limp but was in good shape. When I was deboning the meat I found about a 5" piece of arrow shaft in his front shoulder. Looked like it had been there a long time, no meat was messed up and the shaft was kinda brittle.
I have seen far more deer suffering from poorly placed arrows than I have from head shots.
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