Why do thing have happen the way they do?
 

Found out the other day that one of the bucks I was after last year got hit by a car! in back January.
I'd seen the buck four or five times back in bow season he was always with a big doe,
I tried stalking up him once when I seen him going to an overgrown field to bed, to make a long story short I got just a bout to the spot where they went in and I seen something move behind a bush when it stepped out I seen it was the doe when she went behind another bush I tuck a few steps up stopped she came back out and about that time I seen something move closer to me it was the big buck he had been laying there all that time with in 20 yards of me and I didn't! even! see! him! he was sort of crawling off I pulling back and before I could get it on him he came up and started running.

One of the other times I seen him it was two days after rifle season a half a mile from where I'd tried stalking him, he was on a wooded hill side and I seen him stand up and stand broadside at 60 yards for five minuets with that same old doe.

The next and last time I saw him was three days after bow season I was rabbit hunting the same field just forty yards from where I tried stalking him he jumped up out of a bed and again he was with that big old doe.

The guy that hit him said he was with a big doe when he hit him.

The sad thing about it is I know the guy that hit him and he smacked the buck on purpose he even said he swerved in to the on coming lane to get him

I could have cried when I heard that hid died in a way like that..

Right now I wander what that old does up to and what she's thinking , I guess were both going to have to find another buck this fall.

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Thats a shame. It seems that the big ones are very good at avioding hunters but not so good at avoiding cars. Hopefully he spread some genes before he left.

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Sorry to hear that, but it happens.

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So how big was he? I really think swerving to hit a deer is a disgrace to the animal. Who would do that? :eek:

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What a jerk![:@]

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That sucks! Sorry to hear about it.

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And an answer to your question, "Why do things have to happen the way they do", everything happens for a reason. Mabey with the big buck gone a bigger one will move in.[8D] It's still sad it ended like that.

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I feel your pain. Last summer I was watching a beautiful 8 pointer with a 24 in. spread in the fields. Sept. came and I had him w/i 20 yds of my stand on THREE consecutive hunts in about a week and a half. The third time he stopped broadside at 20 yds. and I had my chance. I was shaking so bad that I made a bad shot. One week later to the day he was hit by someone. I got home from work and had 4 phone calls from different people saying they saw "my" buck on the road. One guy even stopped to check him out (that's how I knew it was a 24" spread). I went down there but he was gone.

Some things just turn out that way. You'll get over it.

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Hope the guy totaled his car hitting it. To bad he didn't keep going and hit the tree behind the deer.[:@] Like you said everything for a reason, maybe someday he'll be in a hospital bed thinking, " why did that guy swerve and hit me" then it might come back to him.

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thing happen like that from "time to time" I know that don`t make it any better. But just maby there`s another big boy out there just waiting to take over his spot? But never the less i fill your pain:( keep in mind a new season is just around the corner!;)

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Well I'll tell you what kind of guy that would do that , He was a deputy sheriff at the time now he a city cop here in town..[:@]
( so he really wasn't out anything for the car also where he swerved to hit the buck was on a curve in the road on top of a hill anyone could have been coming around the bend)[&o]

19 ~3/4 in side spread
6~3/8 around the bases the size held up well throw the length of his mane beams
10 point
longest tine was 12~5/8 - 12~3/4
next tine was 10~1/4 - 10~7/8
shortest tine 7~3/4 - 7~3/4

I don't know what he would have scored but he was a nice one..

Any guess as to what he would have scored? there was not much difference in both sides of his rack.. biggest difference was brow tines one was 6~3/8 and the other was 7~1/2

I didn't wont to talk to the guy any more then I had to when he told me he hit the buck it was all I could do to keep from telling him off after he said he swerved to get him [:@] So I sent A friend of mine to take the measurements for me and he forgot to get down mane beans lengths for me we both guessed them at 24 + inches

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It is extremely frustrating and sad to say the least. I take a lot of pride in managing my own hunting property and try to harvest does and let the young bucks walk.

It really sucks to have a deer hit by a car, poached or some jerk on the next section whack a 1 1/2 old buck because they simply could not control themselves.

My dad and I ran over one of the bigger bucks I've personally seen late one evening in a 1978 Cadillac in 1983. It was sad and expensive!

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you should tell the game warden.