RE: Mercy Killing.....would you????
 

Any chance he was hit by a car?

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I would have done the same thing. I wouldnt want to see them suffer.

rick

RE: Mercy Killing.....would you????
 

I had to use my 2nd buck tag this year on a buck I wouldn't have shot otherwise, it had a crossbow bolt sticking out of it's back. Upon recovery it had only penetrated 2" at best with an expandable broadhead on it. Itfell outon it's death run but how was I supposed to know it was a crossbow bolt, it had only 12 or so inch's protruding. Couldn't let it go, bad PR to say the least if some non hunter were to see it. Anyway you did the right thing. BTW, very big BB.

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Damn that BB is bigger than most of our year and half bucks

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Well, I have more answers regarding this BB. He WAS 1.5yrs old, and he was missing some muscle mass to his left shoulder. I never saw anything injury wise that would explain it, but his trapezious muscle on the Left side was about half the size of the right. His spine also had a curvature, similar to that seen in humans with scoliosis, which I don't know if it had anything to do with his behavior or not. Game Warden said no diseases in the area or the state this year for that matter, and as long as the meat didn't have a rancid smell or discoloration it should be fine. None of the meat had any discoloration or smell to it, so I boned out about 55# of good lean meat, there was some surface waste from letting the deer hang for a while, and a little loss in the backstraps :mad: from the entry wound, but otherwise, the meat all looked and smelled fine.

Here's a pic of the shot window I shot him through, and the death "puddle" he rolled into. The "puddle" is the root base of the downed tree that had blown down earlier this year in a wind storm.





Fats,
He was a 1.5yr old, but he wasn't a "normal" deer by any means.


Niehenke,
That sounds like an animal with ear mites. I have a Lab that gets them on occasion, and he does the same thing. Trap that deer and put some "Animax" topical anti-biotic cream in his ears twice a day for 1 week, and see if he gets better......:D

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I've done it before. I shot a BB 2 years ago with a hole in his jaw he couldn't eat. So I downed him. So you did the right thing.

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Did you ever find what was wrong with the little guy?

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You did the right thing for sure! Kudos.

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Well, I tagged out in PA, but it was definitely not the one that I was after but I had to take it out. Can't image the pain from each step.