I shot a buck one time through the heart that ran 200+yds befor he piled up, and I wont tell any more stories as this would be too long.
But I will tell this one as it still amazes me to this day
2 years ago on the day befor our gun season closed I came accross a blood trail in the snow just befor dark, the track was big and I told my buddy about it and we were gonna get on it in the morning.
To try and fill you in My Buddys Farm is close to the NYS Thruway and many a big bick and deer are killes every year crossing it, this buck that I found the tracks of just happened to be one of them.
We tracked and jumped this buck many times during the next morning, we never even got sight of him on any occasion, we heard him crash off, found his tracks but that was it. Many times I was on this buck and had him in the thick stuff at 10-15yds but could'nt see him, he always got up and ran off, this went on for hours.
Once we has him cornerd by the Thruway, he jumped the Thruway fence stopping cars and trucks as he made it accross both lanes to then jump the Thruway fence on the other side and keep going, we could'nt catch up to him.
Long Story Shor we did finally catch up to him as he laid dead, a lucky hunter shot him as he was comming at him at the last few minutes of the end of Hunting Season.
The Buck was a Giant Non Typical 17 Pointer with a rack you only dream of, both of his back legs were broken from being hit by a car or truck on the Thruway. After 10 hours of chasing and jumping this buck he still could out run and out do us, we never even got sight of him or his rack the whole time, just bit's and pieces of him.
This buck made us look like fools, he jumped 5ft fences, crossed creeks, went through stuff we could only crawl through and did this for 10 hours. Tough....you have no clue how tough a Whitetail Deer can be, and this was only with his front feet, his back legs were so mangled that they were just dragging, or so it seemed to be. I'll never forget that Buck and his will to survive.
(BP)