tpv
01-28-2004, 01:26 PM
I Got a call from my best hunting buddy yesterday. After nearly 2 1/2 months, he finally found a buck that he had shot in November. He found it near a stock pond in a pasture, over a mile from where he shot it as he was going fishing.
It was a deer that was very large bodied with 5 on one side and 4 on the other. He knew it was his.
As we both pieced together his shot at only 75 yards, the deer started running after a doe the second he pulled the trigger. He probably gut shot the deer. This man wouldn't have even taken that shot if it wasn't a big deer , which it was.
I have always been told that a gut shot animal wil try to flush his system out and get the burning out of his gut. In my lifetime of hunting, here was once again, an example of that.
There had been four of us looking for that deer on and off for a month. Mostly we looked by the ponds.
Any new hunters might want to remember that. In late winter, when all of the grass is gone you can see a lot better, this deer went more than a mile and was in the short grass near the pond. That's where he died.
He scored a little over 140 B&C which is a good buck down here, and his skull and horns were still intact. After boiling and cleaning the skull, it will be shoulder mounted in order to enjor for years to come.
I guess if you hunt for meat only, this wouldn't even matter. But if you've hunted for only a big buck to hang on the wall, and haven't shot a buck in three years, then I've got to be excited for this man.
This is my best friend, and he was ready to sell his guns and quit hunting when this happened. Now, he can't wait for next season. He's not going to sell me that little 7X57 either.
Kind of an"uplifting" story I thought.
It was a deer that was very large bodied with 5 on one side and 4 on the other. He knew it was his.
As we both pieced together his shot at only 75 yards, the deer started running after a doe the second he pulled the trigger. He probably gut shot the deer. This man wouldn't have even taken that shot if it wasn't a big deer , which it was.
I have always been told that a gut shot animal wil try to flush his system out and get the burning out of his gut. In my lifetime of hunting, here was once again, an example of that.
There had been four of us looking for that deer on and off for a month. Mostly we looked by the ponds.
Any new hunters might want to remember that. In late winter, when all of the grass is gone you can see a lot better, this deer went more than a mile and was in the short grass near the pond. That's where he died.
He scored a little over 140 B&C which is a good buck down here, and his skull and horns were still intact. After boiling and cleaning the skull, it will be shoulder mounted in order to enjor for years to come.
I guess if you hunt for meat only, this wouldn't even matter. But if you've hunted for only a big buck to hang on the wall, and haven't shot a buck in three years, then I've got to be excited for this man.
This is my best friend, and he was ready to sell his guns and quit hunting when this happened. Now, he can't wait for next season. He's not going to sell me that little 7X57 either.
Kind of an"uplifting" story I thought.