Culled a wounded deer today.....

Status
Not open for further replies.
Wolves and Bears do that too, and you would be suprized how many wounds Ive seen over the last 30 years on Caribou, Seals, etc, and they lived to see another day, but the scars are hideous

Polar Bear bites and claw cuts that healed on a 500lb Bearded seal
IMAG0045-1.jpg
IMAG0049.jpg

Bears lips/face and paw pads can tell a few storys too.

I would have done the same,of course, catching that wounded one, Im just throwing down that in the wild, animals can recover from what we figure to be life ending wounds.
 

Attachments

  • IMAG0042.jpg
    IMAG0042.jpg
    27.7 KB · Views: 11
If the wound looks recent and clean, the venison should be fine. If the wound is infected, check the liver, spleen and kidneys closely for evidence of secondary infections. Those organs act as blood filters, and if they appear abnormal (spotted, bruised, or containing abscesses) the infection has caused septicemia and I would not eat the venison. If the infection is localized to the wound itself, trim out the bad meat, and you should be ok.

These are the same criteria used in packing houses to determine whether or not a carcass is safe for human consumption.
 
Thank goodness nobody ever wounds one with a gun..........

Deer don't need antibiotics...........they are tougher than you think and can recover from some pretty nasty injuries..

As for the bad bow shot..................due to time of flight, a perfectly aimed and executed shot, could land off the mark.
Deer can react to bow noise and "duck" a shot (to get spring in the their legs to run they drop..........don't actually see a projectile and try to get under it).

So..................we have a wounded deer, that was finished off by a bullet.
Deer might have recovered, might not.
The wound might have been caused by poor shooting, or by deer movement or deflection or?

Dunno.
 
FWIW I have burned my tag on deer that came by wounded.
3 times.
All bullet wounds.

Dude I know shot a deer, it dropped. He lowered his gun from his stand, and as he climbed down it jumped up and ran off.
The next yr, same stand, same spot (road crossing).............he shoots a buck.
It was the same one!

Top of the back had a nasty wound, with part of vertebra blown off. Not just a prong of bone either.
 
Bud's brother in law shot a doe w bow. Lost her.
Next yr a guest shoots the same doe, same chunk of woods.
A broadhead w part of aluminum shaft, was between the lungs for the most part. Shot was pretty much straight down and slightly fwd. It was in a "case" of tissue..........I did see pics of it.
Doe was in good health.

Crazy.
 
All of my hunting places have been by busy roads. I have finished off a few that were mobile buzzard bait. One time a guy who I let tag along shot a really decent 10pt buck that was pretty screwed up from being hit by a car. The injuries were probably a couple months old and that deer was so infected that he stunk. That deer got mounted as it was the first decent buck the guy had shot, scars and all are visible on the mount.
 
I can't count the number of deer I've shot and processed over the years with some sort of previous injury. Some were shot late during gun season that were probably wounded a week earlier and showed no signs of injury til they were dressed. Have shot some where I didn't find the old broadhead till I was cuttin' the deer up and even then it was hard to recognize. My nephew shot a nice buck during Firearms season he swore he killed and lost during archery season three weeks earlier. Archery wound, while looking quite nasty, was healing and not infected at all. Still, I'm one to burn my tag on a wounded deer even if I wouldn't have shot it otherwise too. Just what compassionate, responsible hunters do.
 
Seems like every year we find at least one carcass on our property of a deer that was wounded and not followed. If someone asks, we'll help find them but no one ever asks. Waste. Never found one fresh enough to keep.
 
I found 8 on our side of the highway during gun season.
Car hits. Dunno how many made it up the ridge and died elsewhere.
Shot this one, knee fused, lost a lot of weight......really wanted something bigger but when he came in he looked like a wildebeest.
Hip bone sticking up......scrappy dude, wonder how many yotes he'd fended off til then.
No infection anywhere, just lost a lot of weight and was hobbled.
View attachment 816256
 
My buddy put a slug through one I zinged in bow.
Clipped branch, white hair/blood...........deer ran off and snorted at me for 5 mins before leaving.
Got him up (bump) 2 weeks later and pushed him right to my bud, who was daydreaming.
Week later gun season and bang, got him.
Bald spot, healed.

I knew he was OK. Even though for 50 yards there was a fair amount of red.

No doubt a beginner would be at the Walmart telling somebody of a mile long bloodtrail, "buckets of blood" and every person overhearing it would think another bowhunter killed and lost a deer. Those folks then repeating the story.......and somebody down the line hearing the same story, from different people...........would assume that multiple deer were lost (different events, when actually the same).
 
What is funny, not really but..............IN allows HP rifle for private land now.
I have heard of several deer shot and lost.
Bad shootin is bad shootin.
KIlls me how people half arse this stuff and just brush it off, keep on half arsing it.
I didn't check w my bud (works in busy shop) to see how many scopes he boresighted the night before the opener.
 
Day before I shot my buck, walking back right before legal light to stand........I saw a hobbled buck out in the picked field.
Buddy got down to do a push about midday, started at corner....found fresh bloodtrail. Backtracked it to a cut in half sapling and white hair on the ground.
Shot was from the bridge.......on the road............by landowners house.
Strongly suspect the deer crossed the road and somebody peeled one in the dark at it..........was the buck I saw.
Maybe an hr before we got there.
BT didn't go maybe 50 yards he said. Who knows.
 
Hookeye said:
What is funny, not really but..............IN allows HP rifle for private land now.
I have heard of several deer shot and lost.
Bad shootin is bad shootin.
KIlls me how people half arse this stuff and just brush it off, keep on half arsing it.
I didn't check w my bud (works in busy shop) to see how many scopes he boresighted the night before the opener.
Click to expand...

What I don't get is how many not only presume to hunt with no understanding deer (or other game), but don't know the difference between boresight and sight-in... the looks on their faces when they hear about trajectory. Then keep bragging on how great their rifle shoots, or blame all their solvable problems on a supposedly "defective" rifle. And no, I don't consider this a new phenomenon.
 
Props, you did the noble thing.

Buddy and I were walking through a field at midnight once, and stumbled upon a opossum that acted very strange. It didn't notice our head lights on him or us get within a few feet yelling at him. He just kinda stood there, but not looking at us. Made the executive decision to put him down with the 22.

I don't remember why we had guns at midnight, or even what we were doing. I'm also not one to hate possums, as they are the prime enemy of my enemy, ticks.

PSA for Opossums! They eat thousands of ticks per year. If they ain't eating your eggs or feed, leave them be!
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

B
  • Locked
Not losing wounded deer
Replies
18
Views
2K
H&Hhunter
H&Hhunter
alsaqr
  • Locked
Wounded Buck Gores And Kills Hunter
2
Replies
31
Views
2K
mustanger98
M
d2wing
  • Locked
Man kills 500 lb wounded bear with knife as it attacks him.
Replies
23
Views
1K
rule303
R
marksman13
Pretty horrific leg wound on a deer…
2 3
Replies
65
Views
2K
marksman13
marksman13
alsaqr
  • Locked
Another Buck Culled From Gene Pool
Replies
0
Views
243
alsaqr
alsaqr
Back
Top