Found a dead one BEFORE the opener!
09-15-2005, 09:38 AM
#1
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Harford Co Maryland USA
Posts: 4,966
Found a dead one BEFORE the opener!
This is the kind of thing that really irritates me. Yesterday (the day before Opening Day), I went to one of the areas that I've hunted for over 20 years just to trim out the approach trail I'll eventually use. When I got close to one of my favorite tree stand sites, I smelled a rotting smell . . . and started looking for what I KNEW was close by.
I found her. A HUGE doe lay about 25 yards from my best tree stand tree. She was smelling pretty bad, but had absolutely NO damage yet from other animals, etc. I estimated that she had been shot the evening before -- TWO days before the season. She was enormous and completely intact with no holes on the "up" side, so I turned her slightly to see what caused her death. Some intestines began to appear that were already sticking out of the hole in her guts!! [:@][:@][:@] Some &*%$@* hole shot her before the season and then lost her to boot! [:@]
This is the 3rd year in a row that I've found a dead deer in that area in the early season that somebody wasted. The entire area will stink for a few weeks now and some idiot will be bragging to his buddies that he "stuck one, but couldn't find her."
That really ticks me off![:@]
I found her. A HUGE doe lay about 25 yards from my best tree stand tree. She was smelling pretty bad, but had absolutely NO damage yet from other animals, etc. I estimated that she had been shot the evening before -- TWO days before the season. She was enormous and completely intact with no holes on the "up" side, so I turned her slightly to see what caused her death. Some intestines began to appear that were already sticking out of the hole in her guts!! [:@][:@][:@] Some &*%$@* hole shot her before the season and then lost her to boot! [:@]
This is the 3rd year in a row that I've found a dead deer in that area in the early season that somebody wasted. The entire area will stink for a few weeks now and some idiot will be bragging to his buddies that he "stuck one, but couldn't find her."
That really ticks me off![:@]
09-15-2005, 10:19 AM
#4
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Street MD
Posts: 307
RE: Found a dead one BEFORE the opener!
That really sucks DaveH I hate people who cant follow the rules and have to be @sses like this hey were in Harford County do you live I am In Street by Dublin on Rt 543 Good luck to ya
09-15-2005, 10:59 AM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Brampton Ontario Canada
Posts: 1,038
RE: Found a dead one BEFORE the opener!
It is extremely difficult for me to even understand a person who has absolutely regards for the laws and or others.
Unfortunately we're breathing the same air as they are--wish that could have been different too.
Unfortunately we're breathing the same air as they are--wish that could have been different too.
09-15-2005, 11:13 AM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Audubon & Red Rock, Penna.
Posts: 4,472
RE: Found a dead one BEFORE the opener!
With no exit wound and no arrow sticking out, is it possible that it was another kind of wound? Perhaps a perferated ulcer or maybe an injury? We're always quick to blame someone but maybe it wasn't a poacher?
