ORIGINAL: sproulman
ORIGINAL: WestVirginiaBrent
We found one spike this year. Last year we found an 8 and a 5, but they were most likely killed by that Blue Tongue disease, it really wreaked havoc last year.
I've had to dispatch 3 injuredbucks and 2 does from bad shots in the last 8 years though. I even found one of the original shooters of one and he told me "the gun is 18 inches to the left but I didn't have time to fix it." What a a**hole.[:@]
DID HE HAVE HIS HAT ON SIDEWAYS, ROTTEN TEETH,SMELL OF CIG SMOKE AND BRAGGING ABOUT GETTING A button buck, YEP, I KNOW THAT HUNTER..............
You nailed it, all but the hat, and add the smell of a hangover with the cig breathe, LOL. His deer that I dispatched is still probably my best shot to date. 150 yards, trotting (trying too anyways), through some seriously thick brush. The guy blew it's front leg off and it was trying to keep up with the deer in front of it, a little basket 4 point.
The worst was a spike I had to shoot on aFriday when I knew it was shot on Tuesday by my cousin using crappy 44mag hand loads (the loads didn't have enough charge to even blow the action back correctly). When I got up to the spike I could tell he was holed up there for the whole time and it had a huge hole in it's brisket. I got within 10 feet of him before he tried to get up, which he couldn't, and I had to shoot him from the hip because it was too close for a scope.
I know crap happens, but I know 2 of the 3 bucks were preventable and the doe had her foot blown off which really isn't indicative of good hunting either. [8D]