Tough animals

[hammer4reel]

Have had history with this buck for many years .

passed him last year .hoping he would blow up as a 5 1/2 year old .

deer has a tank of a body .

passed him again this fall as he had broken a G2 in October and then that main beam a few weeks later .

was looking forward to seeing what he would be this fall , then got this video after seeing him the other day looking off .

appears his shoulder is dislocated .

but he is still pushing deer around the last few days , as he def is the herd bully .

but doubting he will be around much longer .

 

[JD48]

Hit by a car?

[Bojaffa]

I guess he can’t really get to an orthopedic surgeon to get that fixed. 
   Maybe deer and other wild animals feel and process pain differently. He has no choice but to get up and go. 
  I agree. They are tough for sure. 
Here’s a video of a pretty big bear with a really bad front left paw. 

[Cousin Brown]

Thats a hell of an injury.

[Bad64chevelle]

Yikes ! Poor guy . It’s really amazing how strong they are . I had a buck I had a few years of past experiences with , that limped horribly it looked as if he was missing the bottom portion of his leg . Never could connect . On Monday of 6 day I put a buddy in a stand he had helped me set , and at 4pm he shot him , he bedded 125 yards infront of him and got up chasing does and my buddy killed him with at 65 yards . He sure was missing the bottom half of his leg , for atleast 3 years . He was a 14 pt wacky racked buck . 
 

 

[jumpthestring]

Back in the 70's bow hunting I saw a doe with a arrow right through her head .  she got around fine could not believe my eyes. sucks hate to see any animal suffer.

[archer36]

I shot a buck following a doe during ML season some years ago. It showed no sign of being injured. When I inspected the deer/shot, I noticed an arrow point sticking out of the shoulder area. Well I grabbed it and pulled out a piece of arrow about 8" long. The wound was infected and looked pretty old. It apparently missed both lungs and escaped damaging anything  " vital". It's one of those odd ball shots that can't be explained. 

I'm convinced that at least 50 percent of animals not recovered are harvested at a later date or survive. 

Edited December 25, 2024 by archer36

[Recurve hntr]

I shot a doe a few yrs ago in a piece of woods that u can only hunt with a bow. She was limping pretty bad so I felt like it was the right thing to do. When I butchered her I found 8 buck shot pellets in her. Her shoulder was destroyed. Had a few pellets in her back end . One in her head by her neck. Had to be suffering. The pellets had been in her for a while. 

[hammer4reel]

3 hours ago, JD48 said:

Hit by a car?

I think so . Shoulder is way out of place 

[electric10162]

This guy showed at my GF house in Freehold today. Looks like he lost a battle with another buck. Antler is pulled out of the skull and still very much attached.

 

[gregtpal]

I shot a small buck a couple of years ago.  Didn't notice anything unusual at first, no obvious limp.  When I got to him, I eventually noticed he had a compound fracture in the front leg about 6 inches above his hoof with the bone sticking out about 2 inches.  It was a very old wound that h healed as much as it was going to.

Edited December 26, 2024 by gregtpal

[tcook8296]

I bet he will be around next year if no one shoots him 

He will adapt to his injury. 

I saw a doe with 3 legs this year and it was doing just fine

[hammer4reel]

7 minutes ago, tcook8296 said:

I bet he will be around next year if no one shoots him 

He will adapt to his injury. 

I saw a doe with 3 legs this year and it was doing just fine

I think they can recover from broken bones .

But front shoulder has no actual bone connection to the deer . Seems most of the shoulder now is in front of his chest .

Thinking he got hit pretty hard to cause such displacement .

been three days since I saw the injury , and he is def getting around on it .so only time will tell .

 

[SoxFan]

Tough critter

[Livesintrees]

I’ve been watching a doe for 7 years. Her front leg is busted at the “elbow”. It literally makes a 90 Degree turn. When I first saw her she was at lest 2 years old, thus I figure her to be 9/10 years old at a minimum. Every year she has fawns and every year I figure if a hunter doesn’t shoot her that a bear/yote/bobcat will take her out. Hasn’t happened yet. I don’t have the heart to kill her. Unless I see her in bad shape, ill continue to look forward to seeing her.