Originally Posted by
rockport
Well doesn't look like I'll find out if he had a broken face tonight. I just got done butchering him and a doe and its dark so I was caping him in the kitchen and didn't even get around the antler before the puss squirted across the room. My wife is generally great about this stuff but that got me shut down for the night.
Kinda what I was afraid of Rock. Infections like that happen when damage to the ocular orb causes the eye to come out. It's kinda weird it works like that. Direct damage to the eye ball itself they seem to get over without infections most times but if the eye comes out of the socket then infection sets in deep. That deer was a walking corps before long. Good thing you got him when you did. Killed a lot of animals in my years but I'm still a big old softy when it comes to an animal suffering.