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wounded!!
« on: May 09, 2011, 05:50:52 PM »
i was hunting last year and we were glassing a clear cut and seen a decent little buck. so i took about a 300 yard quartering away shot and the deer jumped up and took off into the brush. i got to where the deer was and found mass amount of blood. we tracked him for more than two and a half hours and the blood trail went down to pin drops then disapeared. i was shocked! so we went back the next day and same result nothing! so we went on hunting and came back the next weekend in the same clear cut there is a three legged deer standing by the road i was in awe. worste tasting deer i have ever ate. any one esle have any simiral stories
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Re: wounded!!
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2011, 06:20:57 PM »
Had a guy from our camp up in Manastash come back and tell the story of hitting one high and tracking it forever w/o success.
He was a "Weekend Warrior" so had to go home for the week, but when he got back, said he felt so bad about it, he was gonna go find it and tag it anyhow.
He went up to the general area and saw an identical twin, took its picture, and when it turned he saw a large dark spot on it right where he had hit the "other one"
so he got out and stuck an arrow in it, this time a little lower......
That deer had a large wound stuffed with moss and rotten (dry) wood high on both sides, just top of ribs and through, seemed healthy enough, and tasted fine.
We still kid him about the deer just standing there to be shot again, thinking he couldn't shoot very well, oops !  :chuckle:
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Re: wounded!!
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2011, 09:34:54 PM »
i saw a elk one year with an arrow broke off in its shoulder, i was muzzleloading so im sure that arrow had been in that cow for awhile...

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Re: wounded!!
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2011, 10:48:09 PM »
One season....got me a new 300 wsm and was over confident in my own abilities.  Took a 480 yard shot, quartering away at a raghorn bull, hit him in the hip.  Tracked him most of the day, jumped him late that afternoon, got another shot off standing on a stump, wobbling and tired, 300 yards, broke his front leg at the knee.  Went to camp that night sick and miserable.  Tracked him all the next day in the thick reprod, blood in my own tracks from doing circles with him, but jumped him late that evening in brush with maybe 50 foot visibility, sniffed him out, took a quick shot...told my partner I think I pierced his ear...turns out I shot right through his horn.  Next morning had help from my uncle and cousin.....My uncle heard him in the brush and allerted us so we could group up.  I jumped the bull again, but this time I just ran after him until I caught up so he turned like he was gonna fight.  He just couldn't out run me with 2 wounded legs.

I put him down.  I was on the radio for 2 and a half days asking for help from spotters and others I knew were hunting in the area, but for the most part I was alone.  It was a bad feeling and at the end of day 2 I was broken.  Just never quit and when we got him hung at camp several guys came up to say congrats...that they had been hearing my saga over the radio and were glad I didn't give up and that I'd got my bull.   Everyone said the meat would be fouled but it wasn't.  I was pleasantly suprised by that, but it sucked that the bull suffered for better than 2 days, and only because I was over confident.  That gun has the ability to make a good kill at that distance, but my abilities at that distance are only on a good day target practicing..... not after hoofing it for 10 miles and staring down the barrel at a legal bull 480 yards away, laying on the ground because there wasn't a good rest, adrenaline pumping, not even sure if it was windy, and thats coming from a guy with obvious signs of A.D.H.D.  I'm a better hunter now because of it.

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Re: wounded!!
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2011, 01:30:45 AM »
Good story Nontypical. Wish we had more hunters with your ethics of stayin at it when you know you wounded one.
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