Mercy Killing.....would you???? (Update on pg. 3)
12-04-2008 | 07:22 PM
#42
Fork Horn
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RE: Mercy Killing.....would you????
ORIGINAL: niehenke
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.
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.
12-05-2008 | 12:01 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Mercy Killing.....would you????
ORIGINAL: Hoytail Hunter
I'm not saying anything negative here but this picture doesn't look like you were 45 feet in the tree. And even if you were, why were you? Good Lord!!! I have to ask too... If you were aiming for the heart but managed to destroy part of the backstrap, where did you actually hit him internally then?
ORIGINAL: OHbowhntr
I ranged him at 38yds, and put my 40pin on his heart, and stuck him to the ground. I really thought about not shooting him, but he just didn't look like he was gonna get out of the woods.
I think the meat should be ok, except for about 1/3 of a backstrap the BH destroyed on the entry. But when you're 45' or so above something shooting 38yds, something's gotta give picking that spot.
I ranged him at 38yds, and put my 40pin on his heart, and stuck him to the ground. I really thought about not shooting him, but he just didn't look like he was gonna get out of the woods.
I think the meat should be ok, except for about 1/3 of a backstrap the BH destroyed on the entry. But when you're 45' or so above something shooting 38yds, something's gotta give picking that spot.
I was about ~ 33' up in the tree, RF said "11 - 11.5 yds" when ranging the ground straight down., the deer was in that little creek bed which is about 15' deep in comparison to the little ridge my stand was on. The deer was quarter-to and from above a pretty good angle, arrow probably hit his body at a 35-40* angle or so just between blade and spine on entry, out just in front of the diaphragm on 2nd to last rib, and the shot hit through backstrap, spine, and lung and aorta.(Just quickly figuring the numbers, it was probably about 35yds"horizontal distance," which is part of why I hit higher than I might have liked)In all honesty, I didn't realize I was that high, until I ranged the ground, just wondering. I just got up to where it felt comfortable and I would be out of the "line of sight" of anything coming through that area.
And Hoyt, I don't think you were being a "prick" at all, but the reason I posed the "question" in such a way is because I DO KNOW guys who WOULDN'T do what I did, even if it had been an EASY clear shot at 20yds.
ORIGINAL:DropTine249
Good to see you were all over the trimming of shooting lanes, OH..
J/K
Good to see you were all over the trimming of shooting lanes, OH..
J/K
12-05-2008 | 12:13 AM
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RE: Mercy Killing.....would you????
ORIGINAL: niehenke
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.
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.
12-05-2008 | 07:16 AM
#47
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From: Florida
RE: Mercy Killing.....would you????
Yes, that was the right thing to do. Had a deer a few years ago with a back leg almost blown off from a rifle shot. Somehow he lived but I could tell that he was in pain and would die a slow painful death. Took him out and tagged him. Could not eat the meat due to the infection had already set in and did not want to take the risk on the meat.
12-05-2008 | 05:54 PM
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RE: Mercy Killing.....would you????
Meat looked good but if I do not post for the next few months you will know why. As you can see from the pic, the bone was pushed through the skin and the deer was walking on the bone. The hoof was still live so that had to suck. Not sure what happened to it.
12-05-2008 | 07:13 PM
#49
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RE: Mercy Killing.....would you????
i think you did the right thing, two years ago i literally had to shoot a doe that had been hit by a car (both rear legs were in compound fractures, and she was all skin and bones)
