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finally got a deer, well actually two :)
Iam a bowhunter first and saw quite a few this year. Got close a couple of times but no cigar. Saw nothing but white tails and flashes of brown in the thicket a couple times during gun season and was coming to the conclusion that this year i would be skunked. Well last night was a funny night. got done watching the bills game and decided to go out and sit in this corneroff ofa corn field that had just been cut down earlier that week. I was in black dress shoes and bluejeans with a jacket covered in an orange vest. i had conviced myself that i would see nothin so why the hell dress up like a real predator. So just before sunset i saw a deer step out and then another only closer.I raised my 835 slaying machineand squeezed the trigger oh so gently. The 3" lightfield screamed through the air and hit the front shoulder like a cannonball! He dropped right in his tracks.S o fast when i brought my head off of the gun i couldn't see him and at first thoughti'd missed.Thedoejumped at the crack of the death cannon and looked in the direction of the buck. Then i knew the slaying had begun. She just stood there. Hanging around for ever just looking at him. So i had to do what any carnivore would do. I lay that girl to rest and thank the gods for this shmorgishborg of meat i was gonna have for this cold winter. The 400+ gr sabot him her right in the thoracic cavity and she bolted for the treeline. i found her in the tall grass not fourty feet from where she took the blow from my meat slayer.
Then the games began! gut her. spill her. drag her. Then i go backover to him. He was the first one i had shot and he was still breathing a little when i saw him.I decided to give him a little more time and see if i could find her. After i was finished with her it was then that i went back over to see him. Not good brothers. My shot had hit his front shoulder, but he was far from expiring. it was dark by now and i wasn't comfortable shooting again with the fact that i wasnear a populated area. so i had to do something I've never done before. The neck cut. Terrible. Terrible!I love horror and violent movies.I play pantball with guys who enjoy cranking their guns and playing till you cry mercy. I work in an OR and have seen people unfortunately pass from complications during surgery.I did a tour in the service and don't see myself as a softy what so ever. But that was one of the lowest things i think I've ever seen and done. i knew it had to be done but it wasn't pretty and seemed like it took forever for him to pass.I hope to god i never have to do it again. Just terrible. But thats part of huntin and you have to take the good with the bad. Next year i think I'll carry a silenced HK USP 9mm. Just kidding. Hope all of ya had a successfull year and a happy holidays. Jimmy the foot out. |
RE: finally got a deer, well actually two :)
You need therapy.
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RE: finally got a deer, well actually two :)
therapy??:eek:
congrats on the twosome, i dont think i would have been able to cut the throat like that, kudos to you. How big was he? Pics? |
RE: finally got a deer, well actually two :)
ORIGINAL: jimmy the foot Iam a bowhunter first and saw quite a few this year. Got close a couple of times but no cigar. Saw nothing but white tails and flashes of brown in the thicket a couple times during gun season and was coming to the conclusion that this year i would be skunked. Well last night was a funny night. got done watching the bills game and decided to go out and sit in this corneroff ofa corn field that had just been cut down earlier that week. I was in black dress shoes and bluejeans with a jacket covered in an orange vest. i had conviced myself that i would see nothin so why the hell dress up like a real predator. So just before sunset i saw a deer step out and then another only closer.I raised my 835 slaying machineand squeezed the trigger oh so gently. The 3" lightfield screamed through the air and hit the front shoulder like a cannonball! He dropped right in his tracks.S o fast when i brought my head off of the gun i couldn't see him and at first thoughti'd missed.Thedoejumped at the crack of the death cannon and looked in the direction of the buck. Then i knew the slaying had begun. She just stood there. Hanging around for ever just looking at him. So i had to do what any carnivore would do. I lay that girl to rest and thank the gods for this shmorgishborg of meat i was gonna have for this cold winter. The 400+ gr sabot him her right in the thoracic cavity and she bolted for the treeline. i found her in the tall grass not fourty feet from where she took the blow from my meat slayer. Then the games began! gut her. spill her. drag her. Then i go backover to him. He was the first one i had shot and he was still breathing a little when i saw him.I decided to give him a little more time and see if i could find her. After i was finished with her it was then that i went back over to see him. Not good brothers. My shot had hit his front shoulder, but he was far from expiring. it was dark by now and i wasn't comfortable shooting again with the fact that i wasnear a populated area. so i had to do something I've never done before. The neck cut. Terrible. Terrible!I love horror and violent movies.I play pantball with guys who enjoy cranking their guns and playing till you cry mercy. I work in an OR and have seen people unfortunately pass from complications during surgery.I did a tour in the service and don't see myself as a softy what so ever. But that was one of the lowest things i think I've ever seen and done. i knew it had to be done but it wasn't pretty and seemed like it took forever for him to pass.I hope to god i never have to do it again. Just terrible. But thats part of huntin and you have to take the good with the bad. Next year i think I'll carry a silenced HK USP 9mm. Just kidding. Hope all of ya had a successfull year and a happy holidays. Jimmy the foot out. |
RE: finally got a deer, well actually two :)
guys be nice, you know it's not easy to do that, thank god ive never been put in that situation. I would still have to shoot him again!!
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RE: finally got a deer, well actually two :)
Hey now giv ehim a break. Hek when i shot my first deer ever we walked up on it and it was still alive and 5 minutes past shooting hours and the doe was just staring and looking at me with a sad face and i just had to shoot it in the neck to put it out for good.
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RE: finally got a deer, well actually two :)
dont feel bad I have had a deer do that two Ishot it once with a 50 cal muzzleloader and then tracked him found him in a laruel thicket had to shoot him again both shots were in the chest. I thought I was going to have to cut his throat because he was still very alive I give him 5 after the 2 shot and he was dead
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RE: finally got a deer, well actually two :)
Yeah lay of a little, I remeber the first doe I shot and when I was gutting her in the field the fawns were watching me about 15 yards away. hard to see those little deeer just watch me murder their mom, but I am over it!
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RE: finally got a deer, well actually two :)
Congrats on the double. What you did had to be tough. I would've just shot to end it quicker than cutting the throat though. I mean, he was still breathing after you'd gutted the doe. Take it as a lesson learned and you're good to go.
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RE: finally got a deer, well actually two :)
it was dark by now and i wasn't comfortable shooting again with the fact that i wasnear a populated area. Yeah lay of a little, I remeber the first doe I shot and when I was gutting her in the field the fawns were watching me about 15 yards away. hard to see those little deeer just watch me murder their mom, but I am over it! |
RE: finally got a deer, well actually two :)
I started a thread about finishing deer a long time agoand itgot a lot of responses. It's natural to feel a little pity for your prey but you still have to get the job done. I carry a big buck knife and usually just step on the throat and double lung them unless it is a really big flailing deer then I come up with something else.
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RE: finally got a deer, well actually two :)
I know how you feel man...This last deer i shot was right at dark and it seemed like i could not get no farther away from my truck it was atleast a 3/4 of a mile.well i drug it till i could not go no more then i went for help.by the time we got that sucker out it was abouot 8:30.And when we went to check it in the people threatened to call the game warden on me because they thought i had spot lighted it.Well after we argued about it for 30 mins i told them to get in there car and i could show them were i drug it out at and they did not want to so i told them to shut up and check it in.And plus you could see the drag marks on the bucks back half we drug its hair off.
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RE: finally got a deer, well actually two :)
Yea ive had to cut the throat before, its never a good thing, the little bambis that sit there and watch the whole process is really what breaks my heart, i ussually dont even shoot does becuase i feel sobad, when there is horns involved im all game though
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