RE: Last Year's Deer
 

i like the mount :D

RE: Last Year's Deer
 

Again, congratulations on deer. Just out of curiosity, how did you hit the esophogas if you thought he was quartering away more than you thought he was? Doesn't that mean that you'd hit further back that you originally thought?

RE: Last Year's Deer
 

Jimbo--yes I did hit furthur back than I thought. What I believe to have happened was that I hit just infront of the diaphram. I never touched any of the guts in the back. When I opened up the chest cavity however, there was chunks of food in there. The only way I can think of as to how I got there is that I sliced through the esophogas (remember the stomach is behind the diaphram so the esophogas runs all the way from the mouth, through he thoracic (chest) cavity and into the abdominal ("the guts") cavity where it attaches to the stomach) in the thoracic cavity somewhere. I did not see a cut esophogas in there anywhere but that is the only logiccal explanation I can come up with. I think that since he ran for quite a while after the shot, the food must have worked its way up from the stomach, into the esophogus and into the chest cavity through the cut in the esophogus.

RE: Last Year's Deer
 

Interesting, .308. That could have happenedI guess. Congrats again on your kill.

RE: Last Year's Deer (pic)....Updated with more pics!!
 

Nice Buck .308 ....Here is my 2004 165lb 7pt shot last day of Vermont Blackpowder season. Shot @ 137yards with TC hawken 50cal 240gr XTP bullet

RE: Last Year's Deer (pic)....Updated with more pics!!
 

Nick buck Little Magnum.

RE: Last Year's Deer
 

I've seen it happen even in straight on broadsides. If you sever the esophagus and the deer upchucks while it's in it's death throes it can make a mess of the chest cavity.

RE: Last Year's Deer
 

Great deer. That is one hefty 3 pointer weighing in at 150lb!!! Congrats. Nice looking mount. Certainly something to be proud of...