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The other day my Dad shot a buck. Good shot taking out 1 lung and the heart. Upon recovery of hte buck it had a busted shoulder. We were confused as the arrow never hit the shoulder. The only thing we can come up with is that when it took off, sometime before it died it run into a tree or log and broke(actually seperated, as there were no bones broken) its shoulder. Anybody else have a similar experience?

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Could it have been preexisting? I fished what I thought was a healthy deer off one year after I watched it try to jump a low barbed wire fence, get caught, and break its leg. Upon skinning, we found the hind quarters were black and blue and surmised that it must have been hit by a car recently and was unable to jump the fence.

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Last year when I made a double lung shot on my buck, he ran dead square into a tree with his head down. It broke about 3/4" on his brow tine.

That is as close as I have come to an injury.

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No, we don't think. my dad noticed no limp at all when it came in, and when we gutted it you could spin that shoulder like a helicopter blade. We found one tree that we think might have been what he hit. He tried to squeeze between 2 trees and one had blood on it on the side his shoulder hit. he was piled up just 5 yds beyond that up against another tree and some logs.

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A buddy of mine shot a doe with a muzzleloader a few years ago and broke a front shoulder. I'm sure it would have been lethal, but in her escape she plowed into a tree and snapped her neck.

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Since there is no real socket in the front shoulder of a deer, I doubt he did it running into a tree. I'd suspect birth defect or auto collison.

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My buddy shot a spike two weeks ago and upon recovery of the deer we noticed the front shoulder was dislocated as well. We don't know if we popped it out while dragging him out (by his front legs) or if it happened when the deer collapsed.

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A buddy and I were hunting in the hill country here in TX and he had just missed a 150+ inch 10 point. Needless to say he was a little flustered when a spike comes out. Its the last day of our hunt there so he decides to take the spike. Made a bad shot ( guts)and the deer bolted past my stand fell down three times on the rocks then plunged over the side of the mountain we were on top of. Now this was a very steep slope. No standing we had to scoot down it. Anyway we had very little blood but enouph to track him to a barbed wire fence where we found an eyeball and associated tissue hanging on the fence. At that point the blood really picked up and we found him 60 yards later. Bad day for that deer.

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Mid-November of '99 - Stick a 2.5 year old scrub buck, he jumps off the tallest point of an old river bank (8-10 feet drop). When he hits the ground below he is walking real slow and a slight limp. He gets in the water and the current holds his left hind leg out away from his body. He fell there after standing for about two minutes, less than fifty yards from my stand. Freshly broken just above the "knee" joint.



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How do you dislocate a shoulder that doesn't have a joint? <img src=icon_smile_question.gif border=0 align=middle> I can see breaking a leg or dislocating a hind quarter... but not the front.<img src=icon_smile_question.gif border=0 align=middle>