Questionable Meat from the doe
Well, I'm thinking about it. I don't think I'm going to take a chance. I just went out and peeled back some of the hide on the front shoulder. It's not puss oozing but it has been infected. It looks like it was trying to heal. I saw the point of bone in this hole and flicked it with my knife. A piece of leg bone low in the shoulder about 2 inches long and split in half flopped out when I flicked it. I can't really tell what caused it. My thinking is an OLD muzzleloader or something like that. Looks like the just smashed across the front of the shoulder/leg and missed the chest entirely. It's OLD.... not from this recent muzzleloader season. She's definitely lost a lot of weight, yet ran like any other deer except for carrying the one leg off the ground. The bone fragment is all off color from past infection. I just don't know on this one. She froze last night so drainage isn't showing from the wound. Any thoughts?