One that got away...

[keahunter]

These suckers are tough! I took this picture yesterday, apparently someone shot too high for the vitals and too low for the spine.

[Palawman30]

Great Pic! What kinda and camera and lens are using to get pics like that? What power zoom

[keahunter]

Great Pic! What kinda and camera and lens are using to get pics like that? What power zoom

 

Thanks, I'm using a Nikon D3000 and the lens I used in that pic was a 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED AF-S DX Nikkor.

[jerseyhunter]

looks like a hard quarteing shot and the rage failed to open. Nice shot with the camera though.

[Liv2hunt]

My trail cam caught this picture

[Liv2hunt]

I actually got another picture of him a month or 2 later.. He looked awful he was skinny and his front left leg was all skinny and mangy I hunted that area as much as I could I never saw him. I would have put him down as fast as I could..

[Hewey]

This shot was my bad. I shot her on the evening of September 16th. My buddy and I blood trailed her from 7:30 pm until we jumped her out of her bed a little after midnight. We backed out at that point. I always blood trail with my GPS on. I cleared the track at the start of the blood trail, from the start point to her bed was .61 miles! The next day I came back to her bed early the following morning. I could find no more blood, so the grid search started. From the blood she lost, I thought she was dead for sure. I spent almost the entire day, and my GPS track said I covered 6 miles doing my grid search. I went home with a sick feeling in my stomach that I lost the deer. I felt bad for some time. I swithched SD cards in a camera on October 9th, I was floored when when I was at home and was going through the pictures on my computer and there she was! My spirit soared! To this day she is still alive and I give her the pass. We call her the ghost doe. Deer are some tough critters!

[bushden]

A lot of guys obviously need PRACTICE

[Matty]

Just to clear up picture number 1. That is NOT in between the spine and vitals. There is no "void". That is above the spine. Through the backstraps.

 

Next, I know this wasn't started to cause issues, but I feel like this type of thread can be damaging to our sport.

 

I'm not suggesting we sweep the ugly stuff under the rug, but let's not create a thread that compiles pictures of all the wounded deer we know about and have images of for the world to see. To me it says, more people need to pay attention to shot angles, practicing and knowing their limitations. To anti's and fence sitting general public it says...cruel and painful, put an end to it.

 

Just my opinion. I'm not going to moderate it because it hasn't broken any rules, but I think we should discuss the positives and negatives of threads like this.

[BowhunterNJ]

Guys, obviously a thread like this has the potential to turn really negative, really quickly from other members asking why you would post content that could been seen in a negative light for all hunters. As such, I thought I would try to jump on this before it happens.

 

A few things I'd like to add to the discussion...

 

1) I've implemented site functionality to block content viewing from outside guests. They must register in order to see it. While this doesn't prevent antis and other interest groups from accessing the content entirely, it will at least help a little to decrease the ease of access and distribution of site content to outside parties.

 

2) I am working on legal copyrighting to protect site and member content such that it cannot be shared elsewhere without site or the source member's approval. This would not prevent members from sharing their information elsewhere or in any way they see fit, but it will attempt to prevent any unapproved source from using the information for their own purposes that is shared on this site.

 

3) Be mindful of what you post. We don't want to be content restrictive here, especially on topics relating to fishing/hunting/trapping/outdoors. This particular thread is an example of what could happen, albeit the minority case, and although it isn't pretty, it is a testament to how resilient wild animals can be. Just try to present the potentially negative aspects of site related content maturely and with purpose...even if it's only to discuss the amazing ability to recover from injury that whitetail deer clearly possess, as was presented here in this thread.

 

As always, if you have any questions or feedback, feel free to reach out to myself or any of the moderators!

[Gruntmaster]

BowhunterNJ, good observation.

[keahunter]

I certainly didn't intend to show our sport in a bad light, nor did I wish to create any issues between posting members. Mods, I am totally ok if you wish to remove the post. I won't take offense at all.

[BowhunterNJ]

I don't think anyone thought that was your or anyone's intention, I just think some of us have been around these forums enough to see the same type of material posted and the thread go to hell in short order!

 

I certainly don't want to discourage anyone from posting relative content, we just need to be mindful of what we post to a degree and hopefully have a purpose and discussion point that isn't just to intentionally create controversy and drama (which yours 100% did not and wasn't meant to IMO).

 

Let's face it, hunting (whether it's humans hunting prey, or animals hunting prey) involves life and death, and it also has some grueling aspects to it (nature in it's purest form can often be very cruel and unforgiving). As hunters, we can only hope to execute quick, clean kills...and while that indeed happens the majority of the time, there are those few cases where an animal is only wounded. These pictures depict that latter case and also exhibit the animal's resilience and recovery from such wounds. Perhaps they can serve as a reminder that sometimes things outside our control happen, and other times maybe we can all use even more practice than we already employ to help bring those few cases of wounding closer to zero.

[jerseybowhunter]

Heres a doe I hit quartering away a few years ago. Somehow I hit high but it Still blows my mind how I didn't get lungs. Shot was 20yds from 20ft high. I followed a great blood trail for a few hundred yards before loosing it and searching all day. Glad to see she made it

 

[Rusty]

apparently someone shot too high for the vitals and too low for the spine.

 

That is NOT in between the spine and vitals. There is no "void". That is above the spine.

 

Matty is correct. That shot is well above the spine, and there is no void.

 

 

Heres a doe I hit quartering away a few years ago. Somehow I hit high but it Still blows my mind how I didn't get lungs.

 

Your shot is also above the spine. The spine is a lot lower in a deer’s body than many people realize.