Has Anyone Seen This Yet?
02-20-2008, 06:15 PM
#1
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Heaven IA USA
Posts: 2,597
Has Anyone Seen This Yet?
Igot an interesting email from a hunting buddy today. We all know how these emails circulate and I was wondering if anyone else saw the photos. It had about fifteen pictures of a buck that had been shot in the head with a bow. I don't have the know how or the time to show them here but it is some interesting stuff to say the least. I will include some of the captions that accompany the photos. Has anyone else seen or heard this story?????
This deer was harvested with a bow on Dec. 30th by Jay Trudell of Delafield Wisconsin . Jay made a great hit on this deer. It expired inside of 50 yards.
On New Years Eve, Jay brought to deer to me to be butchered. I skinned it for a shoulder mount, stopping right behind the ear.
The buck dressed out at 175 pounds and has a good layer of fat on it¢s rump. Every indication was that this was a normal, healthy deer. I returned the head to Jay for mounting. After the taxidermist capped the skull, he cut the skull plate to remove the antlers. As he finished the cut, he hit metal. Jay got the skull and antlers back and cleaned them and brought them to be to show me what was inside the brain of this deer. The hide was completely healed and did not give away that there was an injury. The threaded portion of the head had snapped off.
The deer had been shot in a prior season with a Wasp Hammer broadhead. It entered the brain but did not kill the deer. It also passed through the hinge of the jaw and had grown over with bone and prevented the jaw from opening all but the smallest amount. The brain was infected around the puncture wound. I'm not sure which portion of the brain was injured but I suspect it was the part that helps the deer avoid a hunter.
This deer was harvested with a bow on Dec. 30th by Jay Trudell of Delafield Wisconsin . Jay made a great hit on this deer. It expired inside of 50 yards.
On New Years Eve, Jay brought to deer to me to be butchered. I skinned it for a shoulder mount, stopping right behind the ear.
The buck dressed out at 175 pounds and has a good layer of fat on it¢s rump. Every indication was that this was a normal, healthy deer. I returned the head to Jay for mounting. After the taxidermist capped the skull, he cut the skull plate to remove the antlers. As he finished the cut, he hit metal. Jay got the skull and antlers back and cleaned them and brought them to be to show me what was inside the brain of this deer. The hide was completely healed and did not give away that there was an injury. The threaded portion of the head had snapped off.
The deer had been shot in a prior season with a Wasp Hammer broadhead. It entered the brain but did not kill the deer. It also passed through the hinge of the jaw and had grown over with bone and prevented the jaw from opening all but the smallest amount. The brain was infected around the puncture wound. I'm not sure which portion of the brain was injured but I suspect it was the part that helps the deer avoid a hunter.
] But that is pretty neat though. It was ether tough or lucky.
02-20-2008, 06:50 PM
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts
Posts: 385
RE: Has Anyone Seen This Yet?
Here is a link to the thread with the pictures over on AT:
http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=616749
Bob
http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=616749
Bob
02-20-2008, 07:07 PM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2004
Location:
Posts: 3,179
RE: Has Anyone Seen This Yet?
That is such an unethical shot! NOBODY, and I mean NOBODY should EVER take a shot like that. The only time it should be taken is if the deer was previously wounded and this was the only shot left to try and dispatch the animal. Quite a shame really. This is how we all get bad reputations. [:'(]
02-20-2008, 08:54 PM
#8
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: HENDERSON KY USA
Posts: 6,634
RE: Has Anyone Seen This Yet?
ORIGINAL: Hikchick
That is such an unethical shot! NOBODY, and I mean NOBODY should EVER take a shot like that. The only time it should be taken is if the deer was previously wounded and this was the only shot left to try and dispatch the animal. Quite a shame really. This is how we all get bad reputations. [:'(]
That is such an unethical shot! NOBODY, and I mean NOBODY should EVER take a shot like that. The only time it should be taken is if the deer was previously wounded and this was the only shot left to try and dispatch the animal. Quite a shame really. This is how we all get bad reputations. [:'(]
Maybe it was an accident,considering the lack of penetration,it was either a low energy setup or the arrow hit something else first.
02-20-2008, 09:25 PM
#9
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location:
Posts: 290
RE: Has Anyone Seen This Yet?
"How do we know they took this shot"
I agree seem like most people jump on the band wagon that it was a unethical shot when really there is only one person that knows the facts and i don't think he's about to spill the beans take it as just a bad accident.
I agree seem like most people jump on the band wagon that it was a unethical shot when really there is only one person that knows the facts and i don't think he's about to spill the beans take it as just a bad accident.
02-20-2008, 09:32 PM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blanchester Ohio USA
Posts: 1,269
RE: Has Anyone Seen This Yet?
I think this isn't a kill from this year. I had read about this on another site before December. So its either last year or before.
Regardless it shows how truly tough a deer is.
Regardless it shows how truly tough a deer is.