Don’t shoot deer in the butt

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My first bow kill was quick and humane by accident and also the reason I use only fixed blades.
Being new to bow hunting, I was admonished by an experienced friend to use fixed blades. I bought the cheap Allen broadheads from Walmart and off I went. A yearling walked up to me and I let her have it. The arrow hit her humerus which shattered and then deflected up into her heart. Dead in 50 yards by sheer luck.
Bad shots happen just like accidents do, even though they are preventable. We learn what "the part" is, as in "doing our part", and we carry on to hunt again.
Humane kills are the goal but they don't always happen, as much of a shame it is. In the end, we ARE out there trying to kill them. Brown down on the ground is the desired outcome.
 
Helping to field dress a deer that was on the receiving end of a Texas Heart Shot from a .270 Win is an experience you don't soon forget.
 
Would love to know the actual story. How experienced was the hunter? Do they practice on a range? How much do they shoot? Was the deer standing still? If it was broadside you'd have to miss Point of Aim by a wide margin to hit the ham. If quartering toward, it wouldn't take near as much error to miss Point of Aim and hit the back leg. Was it standing still? Moving? Running? In heavy brush? Could something have deflected the shot? Where they shooting off a rest? How far was it? Was this a younger hunter who may have had a serious case of the shakes?

Way more questions than answers on this one. All I see is a useless hind quarter, and I can't judge it because I have no idea what happened.

Sucks for the animal, and it's a terrible waste of meat.
 
Last time they would be hunting around me. There's absolutely no excuse for a shot that bad. Get some targets, go to the range in the off season.
I'm not a natural good shot, I have to really work at shooting well, and accurizing my rifles. But I don't hunt with anything that won't give me a three inch pattern on center, at 100 yards.
 
Helping to field dress a deer that was on the receiving end of a Texas Heart Shot from a .270 Win is an experience you don't soon forget.

I have only done it once, I broke the front shoulder on a buck last year due to a pour shot of my own and he ran right in front of my stand and turned to run into the slough and since I knew it was going to need another shot or I would never find him I took the texas heart shot. It dropped him right in his tracks and to my astonishment there was absolutely no meat damage. I lost a couple pounds of meat to the broken shoulder but none in the hind quarters. The shot was with a 125 nosler accubond at only 2600 fps though. I would never take that shot though unless the animal was already wounded.
 
My brother borrowed my 300rum one year. He is not a good shot, that's kinda why I let him use the 300 and not one of my other rifles. It was more of a joke. Well he tried to take a neck shot at a doe at 40 years, he missed the head but nailed the Texas Hart shot. First time I ever seen a deer split in 2. I believe that 180 was going over 3200 fps.
 
I've shot more than one hog in the butt, and I'll do it again if that's the only angle I have, but deer not so much.
With hogs, I figure one less hog in the county is a good thing and they keep making more …
 
I helped clean a badly gut shot deer during a special hunt for handicapped hunters. Not sure exactly how he shot it but looked like a grenade went off between the two hind quarters. Pieces of acorn embedded into the meat. It was ugly, but effective as the deer was dead.
 
Thats the exit side in the OP's pix.

Soft point 30-06? Might have been a well aimed shot with a bum scope all the way down to a musket type muzzle loader with a soft lead ball about 3/4 inch od so.....

Theres nothing perfect in hunting, **** and experiance mount. I would have gutted as normal, laid on its back, feet up, and left the liver for last. Cut the liver and bleed it out into the cavity, and rinse all the matter into the blood pool. Gas up a ride, smoke one, gut another, or whatever for 10 minutes and that pool will be a clot that slides all that nastiness with it .

Ive seen the front shoulders on plenty of good meat animals posted here in such condition, its nothing that unusual.
To deal with such, we have a saying here "Dogs gotta eat..." and it isnt wasted a bit.
 
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Theres nothing perfect in hunting, **** and experiance mount.

Ive seen the front shoulders on plenty of good meat animals posted here in such condition, its nothing that unusual.
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^^ I agree. Around me, 90% of folks never even skin their own animal, nor do they butcher it. Even a shot like that with the hide left on it, doesn't look that bad to most folks. But then when they go back to the processor to get their meat after paying $100, they accuse the butcher of stealing their meat 'cause they only ended up with one shopping bag worth. I've seen shoulder shots that hit bone and the shock traveled down the spine and created blood meat in both backstraps. As I said before, I've seen shots like the one in the OP created by someone trying to shoot a small "meat deer" looking at them in the head or neck and only missed by a inch or so and ended up hitting the butt. Even a successful head or neck shot with a pass thru, could do the same. I think it's great that most folks here have always made perfect shots on animals and are always able to eat right up to the "hole". Not me unfortunately.
 
Lot of folks leave that much meat laying in the gut pile too, on purpose. Deer heart and liver are certainly edible. But a kid accidentally shoots one in the butt and we better riot with superiority.

I mean this is the internet. But in real life, instead of never hunting with your grandson again, I think most folks would just make this a teachable moment (if it even needs to be, we don’t know what happened) and salvage what you can and move on.
 
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The few deer, very few, I’ve processed or help process, with the exception of the back straps wound up mixed with pork fat and ground into sausage meat. Would a little bloody meat make a difference or even be noticeable. ?
 
The few deer, very few, I’ve processed or help process, with the exception of the back straps wound up mixed with pork fat and ground into sausage meat. Would a little bloody meat make a difference or even be noticeable. ?
There's a difference between blood running out of a piece of steak as it's frying and mangled meat with old blood mixed in. Who knows what else has contaminated that meat besides the blood? Even a lung shot means there are other fluids in the wound channel. Meat along the wound channel containing blood, may also contain lead/bullet/bone fragments. If I and my family needed every little piece of meat to survive a long cold winter, it might be different, but as it is.......blood meat gets thrown out with the bones. Other's are free to do differently.
 
There's a difference between blood running out of a piece of steak as it's frying and mangled meat with old blood mixed in. Who knows what else has contaminated that meat besides the blood? Even a lung shot means there are other fluids in the wound channel. Meat along the wound channel containing blood, may also contain lead/bullet/bone fragments. If I and my family needed every little piece of meat to survive a long cold winter, it might be different, but as it is.......blood meat gets thrown out with the bones. Other's are free to do differently.
Good point, hope the commercial processing plants follow that. Game poultry beef and pork.
 
I just read on another thread where some one shot a rabbit only a foot ahead of the dog.
That would of been the last time I hunted with that shooter.
That was me, and ironically, the guy whose dog it was did this very same shot as above on a deer with a .270 after missing the deer's butt the first time and hitting a hind leg; the butt shot hit the spinal cord, and he finished the doe off by sticking the barrel IN HER MOUTH and firing! :uhoh:

BTW, his dad was the guy who taught me to wingshoot, and not only had no problem with my rabbit shot, he was proud of me! He was not proud of his son for pre-butchering that doe with his bullets. They spent a lot of time of the rifle range the next summer.......
 
...and he finished the doe off by sticking the barrel IN HER MOUTH and firing! :uhoh:

Good lord. That shows complete disrespect for the deer. And I’m sure it means something more but I’m not a psychiatrist...
 
Sad to say I once did the same thing though it wasn't intentional. I had a medium buck standing, not alarmed, quartering away at 60 yards. I did the standard, aim for the off shoulder thing which should have caught the rear rib on the right side and gon on through the lungs, but as I fired he took a step forward. Ruined the right hand and most of the left front quarter. 12 ga Hornady SST. I knew there was trouble when I saw deer pellets hanging out of the exit. I also learned that the "shoot through" netting was intended for arrows.
 
I shot one in the shoulder that ruined more meat. Hit her at 50 yards with a 7 mag 150 Sierra Game King. Boy, that bullet does some damage! I back stroked on my load, since, to a 160 Nosler Partition.

I but shot a buck once, too. I was easing back on the trigger from 150 yards with a .257 Roberts, 100 grain Game King. Damned deer turned and walked off and my perfect sight picture turned into a Texas Heart Shot as the sear broke. It didn't do that much damage and killed it DRT. I'm guessing the small caliber helped avoid damage, but really don't know.
 
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