Shoulda used that deer as a decoy and been bleating all morning.

Definitely a terrible thing. Several years ago while hunting our property I was sitting on a hill glassing a cut alfalfa field. After scanning the fence-line once, I decided to scan one more time. As I looked, I watched a doe attempt to hop the fence. She thrust her rear legs backward and got her hoof caught in some tangle up chicken wire fencing from years ago.

I made it over to her and by that time she was worn out from her struggle. It took about five minutes, but I used my leatherman to cut the old wire away. She took off and bedded down about 75 yards away.

Why everyone is justifying this as "mother nature" is beyond me..........the animal was wounded by a human and caught up and died in a man made fence. How much the two are related no one will ever know but barring a HUGE coincidence I think it's a pretty safe "bet".

Mother nature IS very cruel..........I agree. I just don't see how she fits into this equation.

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post to come later. I have class.

That's why I titled my thread the way I did, Atlas.

Dang Jeff, thats sucks. I cut a calf (cow)out of a fence once, dug a fawnout of creekafter spooking the coyotesthat had chased it in there...and finally packed a calf elk out of logging trail once... Never have found a dead one in the fence yet. Hope I dont have too.

On the doe issue... Shoot a buck team 43 needs a kickstart!

That is a very sad sight and I know that had to be heart breaking. It is amazing, we can go out and kill these animals and be overcome with joy, but when we see something like this, it tears us up. It reminds me of a a yearling doe a few years ago that I shot. She came down a trail while I was rifle hunting and the whole time she was crying/bleating. She got to within afew yards of my stand and fell over. I could see her legs were broke and the bone sticking through the skin. I watched her for awhile as she cried and tried standing up. After a few minutesof her trying to stand up I decided that it was time to do my job, and I dispatched her with a tear in my eye.I guess the silver lining is that you now know of the entry/exit of your shot and the overall outcome of the deer. Very neat story none-the-less.

These stories tear us all up, BM. Thanks for what you did with the doe.

Shed: I'm trying. Believe me.

That's too bad. A horrible way for anything to die.

that is to bad the thing must have suffered a while