Poached buck

[boneaddict]

I was driving down the road and I spotted this buck dead out on the hillside about 150 yards across the ravine.  I was pissed.  I had been following a track that I suspected was a poacher but I suppose it could have been another photographer, but I doubted it.  I got out, fixed my lens, took a couple pics then sat there looking at him through the binos.

[boneaddict]

Did I see his war twitch.  I grunted, yelled, got back in the truck, moved it ahead, got out, got another camera angle still NOTHING
I must have been seeing things.  I was trying to figure out what to do.  It was laying in plain site.  Do I photgraph it, gather evidence what??? 

[Huntbear]

That really P!sses me off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   >:   That buck died needlessly!!!!!!

Bone, that is a great photo, and a great way to honor a buck killed by an idiot.

I hope you have called the law, so they can do a proper investigation.

[boneaddict]

I got into my truck then moved ahead.  On the other side of the bush there was a doe sitting at full attention.  NOW WAIT A MINUTE  There is no way she is going to be sitting next to a dead buck.   I grabbed a pair of sheds and slammed them together......WELL YOU LITTLE rascal.  She plum had him tired out.
I thought he was dead.   YAY!!!!!!!!!!

[agchawk]

LMAO!!!

I was just going to post something about the damn poachers and "what a waste of a great lookin' buck"!

I was wondering why his eyes were closed. I've harvested a good number of bucks but had never had one close his eyes unless they were wounded and wandered off and layed down to expire.

Great photos though!!! THANKS

[boneaddict]

I hear ya hunt.  I WAS PISSED.  I stumble onto several carcasses per year.  Anyway, then I couldn't get him to look at me.  That FART!  So I drive down and get right under him and up the hill I go.  I should have changed cameras though.  I came out about 10 feet from him and there he was.  THEN GONE!

[bow4elk]

you could see his eye shut...ALIVE buck!!  Cool photos!

[Huntbear]

 

ok, so now i sit here with egg on my face, but grateful that buck is still alive and well, if not a bit worse for wear

[bobcat]

Love the photos. Well done! That would have been something to see.

[X-Force]

Poor guy was tuckered out from chasing the does around. great shots Bone.

[Rick]

He wasn't dead so it really doesn't matter now,but how exactly could you tell he was killed by a poacher from 150yds? 

[Bearhunter]

Havent seen to many dead with there eyes closed

[boneaddict]

That was speculation Rick.  he was laying in a funny spot out in the open, right where someone could have got him etc.  I could not raise him.  I mean sitting there with the stereo cranked banging on a drum with Rhiana "disturbia", slamming car doors, whistling, honked horn etc, and nothing. I thought it was strange.  Course the doe didn;t get up and move either, but at least she was looking at me.  It took me getting within 10 feet of him to make him WAKE UP.

[MuleySniper]

I'm surprised that when you played "disturbia" he didn't run off to the next county with his horns stuffed in his ears!

[bobcat]

I know just how he felt. Women do that to ya sometimes.