23 Days Later A Delaware Buck Story
12-04-2008, 05:06 AM
#42
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
Posts: 21,199
RE: 23 Days Later A Delaware Buck Story
I never said I was the perfect hunter. I never said I didn't make a mistake or two along the way. However, I don't think it's right to get all "congrats on a great kill".. when it wasn't. I'm not the perfect hunter, but I don't run home, grab my bow and camera to pose with every road kill I come across either.[8D] Some of you people seem to be willing to accept anything for the almight horn or kill photo.
12-04-2008, 05:32 AM
#43
Thread Starter
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RE: 23 Days Later A Delaware Buck Story
Man, you gotta love these forums as everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I could have posted this as a kill with no story but I chose to tell the truth and look what I get. Yeah I made a bad shot on the deer and if I could do it again I would wait for a better opportunity on the buck. Road Kill, Hit by a car, you call it what you want. I don’t care what you think. I was the one who could not sleep because I knew I hit this deer and could not find it. I looked for this deer everyday for three weeks with no trace of bone or blood. You think I feel good about wounding a deer and having it suffer for 23 days, NOT !! It is ashamed that this deer had to suffer, would you feel the same if it was a 70lbs. doe? Don’t worry, you did not and will not take this buck away from me because I am the one who made the bad shot, I am the one that will live with what I’ve done and deep down I can put this to rest. BTW, thanks to those of you that know and understand what I have gone through.
12-04-2008, 10:44 AM
#46
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 1997
Location: Cheasapeke and Delaware Bay Region
Posts: 10,485
RE: 23 Days Later A Delaware Buck Story
Man, you gotta love these forums as everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I could have posted this as a kill with no story but I chose to tell the truth and look what I get. Yeah I made a bad shot on the deer and if I could do it again I would wait for a better opportunity on the buck. Road Kill, Hit by a car, you call it what you want. I don’t care what you think. I was the one who could not sleep because I knew I hit this deer and could not find it. I looked for this deer everyday for a week with no trace of bone or blood. You think I feel good about wounding a deer and having it suffer for 23 days, NOT !! It is ashamed that this deer had to suffer, would you feel the same if it was a 70lbs. doe? Don’t worry, you did not and will not take this buck away from me because I am the one who made the bad shot, I am the one that will live with what I’ve done and deep down I can put this to rest. BTW, thanks to those of you that know and understand what I have gone through.
12-04-2008, 11:11 AM
#47
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Sturgis, SD
Posts: 1,983
RE: 23 Days Later A Delaware Buck Story
The story, recoverey or non is irrelevant to me.
You should not have donated the meat however. The only way for the deer to die from an infection in the leg, is to first develop septicemia. That is a seeding of the blood stream with bacteria from the leg wound. When this happens the infection spreads to the brain and major organs causing a type of shock that kills the animal. The same bacteria would have also seeded the muscle tissue and this animal is not fit for human consumption.
You should not have donated the meat however. The only way for the deer to die from an infection in the leg, is to first develop septicemia. That is a seeding of the blood stream with bacteria from the leg wound. When this happens the infection spreads to the brain and major organs causing a type of shock that kills the animal. The same bacteria would have also seeded the muscle tissue and this animal is not fit for human consumption.
12-04-2008, 11:25 AM
#48
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: 23 Days Later A Delaware Buck Story
ORIGINAL: mez
The story, recoverey or non is irrelevant to me.
You should not have donated the meat however. The only way for the deer to die from an infection in the leg, is to first develop septicemia. That is a seeding of the blood stream with bacteria from the leg wound. When this happens the infection spreads to the brain and major organs causing a type of shock that kills the animal. The same bacteria would have also seeded the muscle tissue and this animal is not fit for human consumption.
The story, recoverey or non is irrelevant to me.
You should not have donated the meat however. The only way for the deer to die from an infection in the leg, is to first develop septicemia. That is a seeding of the blood stream with bacteria from the leg wound. When this happens the infection spreads to the brain and major organs causing a type of shock that kills the animal. The same bacteria would have also seeded the muscle tissue and this animal is not fit for human consumption.
12-04-2008, 11:37 AM
#49
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
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RE: 23 Days Later A Delaware Buck Story
I don't think I was necessarily slamming the hunter as much as the folks who want to say congrats on a great bow kill ... when it wasn't. When I mentioned the factI was slammed for being negative. Icall it being truthful. You the hunter just got caught in the middle of it. I'm sure you felt bad, but that was never discussed.Instead you posed with weapon and a tidy little "Picture you can be proud of". It just didn't ring right is all. This is not the first thread where someone has shot a deer, found it weeks later and everyone wants to annoit them as a great hunter who stuck to it until there was a conclusion. I don't see it that way, never have and never will. If I can't eat it, it's a lost animal. Hell, I've been jumped on harder for a shots some thought unethical that killed deer dead. I've been jumped on for being "disrespectful to the animal" I just killed because I didn't take a pretty picture. It depends what group you're associated with I guess. Some can do no wrong while others are only negative. Hmmm...
12-04-2008, 11:39 AM
#50
Dominant Buck
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RE: 23 Days Later A Delaware Buck Story
David:
By your definition....Matt/PA's '07buck was a lost deer....and not a recovered, bowkilled animal.
Right?
I found a deer I killed....weeks later....yet I never tried to "annoint myself" (nor did anyone else....and it's still in the forum for all to see....the thread)anything. I felt remorse when I lost him....and "joy" is not the emotion I would use to describewhen I found him. I found it "interesting" and I found it added closure to the mystery. I took NO pictures "I can be proud of".
I don't find your comments negative....except in the sense they're inflammatory and disrespectful to the people this has happened to. If you think I could have done something differently to assure a more speedy recovery of my buck....I'm all ears (seriously).
By your definition....Matt/PA's '07buck was a lost deer....and not a recovered, bowkilled animal.
Right?
I don't think I was necessarily slamming the hunter as much as the folks who want to say congrats on a great bow kill ... when it wasn't. When I mentioned the factI was slammed for being negative. Icall it being truthful. You the hunter just got caught in the middle of it. I'm sure you felt bad, but that was never discussed.Instead you posed with weapon and a tidy little "Picture you can be proud of". It just didn't ring right is all. This is not the first thread where someone has shot a deer, found it weeks later and everyone wants to annoit them as a great hunter who stuck to it until there was a conclusion. I don't see it that way, never have and never will. If I can't eat it, it's a lost animal. Hell, I've been jumped on harder for a shots some thought unethical that killed deer dead. I've been jumped on for being "disrespectful to the animal" I just killed because I didn't take a pretty picture. It depends what group you're associated with I guess. Some can do no wrong while others are only negative. Hmmm...
I don't find your comments negative....except in the sense they're inflammatory and disrespectful to the people this has happened to. If you think I could have done something differently to assure a more speedy recovery of my buck....I'm all ears (seriously).