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December 20, 2010, 10:59 AM | #1 |
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Wow! Interesting morning to say the least.
Not sure if this should be in the hunt forum or not, but it does end bad for the deer. Came to work the other morning and we had a buck that fell into a basin. To make a long story short, he was injured, kept running himself into the walls, and was bleeding profusely. Sheriff's dept didn't want to do anything for fear of damage/ricochet/lazy/etc. So we had to put him down. Since I live a few min away I ran to house and grabbed a gun to take care of it.
Anyway, here's a few pics. One shot from a 45/70 and he took a few steps and all was done. Now the really fun part was lifting a dead 120lb deer vertically 16ft to get him out. Hated to do something like that, but he was beat up pretty bad and the local DNR agent said there is no deer rehab center near this area. |
December 20, 2010, 12:05 PM | #2 |
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Did you get to keep the meat???
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December 20, 2010, 01:54 PM | #3 |
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Well that is a rather small hole. Easy to see how the deer could have missed it.
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December 20, 2010, 02:38 PM | #4 |
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Yeah it was an interesting start to the day.
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December 20, 2010, 06:15 PM | #5 |
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Is that the deer version of shooting fish in a barrel?
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December 21, 2010, 07:00 AM | #6 |
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Ha! Funny you should say that. I was going to title this thread, "Just like shooting fish in a barrel".
Oh, and yes we were able to keep the meat. The DNR told us that if they came to get the deer that they would have to tranquilize it first. (to avoid any possibility of damage to the basin from gun shot) Get it out of the basin. Then they would shoot it later, but if they tranquilized him the meat would then be inedible. |
December 21, 2010, 07:48 AM | #7 |
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If that was their concern it's surprising they let you take a shot at all. Poor critter, definitely the right thing to do.
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December 21, 2010, 09:15 AM | #8 |
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not bad getting to hunt/kill on the clock, could be alot worse!
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December 22, 2010, 07:37 AM | #10 |
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Correct. Local authorities didn't want to assume the liability of damaging anything and I wasn't too worried about a lead slug from the 45/70 damaging 12" thick reinforced concrete. Figured there would be less chance of ricochet with lead too. The bullet did pass through the deer. You could see the mark on the wall were it splattered.
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December 24, 2010, 06:06 PM | #11 |
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Thats classic!
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