RE: What is your strangest recovery?
I shot one on the 23rd of Nov. on the last Friday on gun season in WI. I was hunting on my brother in laws land and on the way to my stand in the morning I hear something to my right.
I shine my flashlight over and see a doe bedded down and she tries to get up but is having a hard time. She was hitting trees and other stuff. I didn't want to shoot because it was pitch dark out and it was an hour before shooting time. So I sat in my stand for about an hour and a half and this same doe came out. I could tell she was limping on her back leg. She was about 35 yards away so it was an easy shot with the gun but I never let a deer suffer if I see one wounded.
Found out while we were skinning her that her back tendon on her right leg was cut somehow so that leg was pretty much useless. I guess this was why she was limping. Also, found some bruised meet on one of her sides. It wasn't gang green or anything but it was blood shoot and was hit by a car. My brother in law said he hit a doe with his truck 2 weeks before while he was on his way out bowhunting.
He hit her on the same side she had the blood shot meet on so we figured it was the same deer since where we hunt up there it's back roads and not many people are traveling on those roads.
That was kinda strange that I ended up shooting that doe when he hit it just 2 weeks before.