Wounded deer question
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Wounded deer question
Last gun season, my good buddy took a shot at a monster buck, and it fell to the ground and started thrashing and kicking, but then it got up and ran off with no blood trail....they looked for hours but found nothing. Does anybody have any idea what maight have happened, because it still baffles us.
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Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2004
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RE: Wounded deer question
Two seasons ago my son had a big 8 point come through and he shot it with a .300 Mag. At the sound of the gun it dropped. He went over and touched it on the eye just because you should and it blinked! He shot it through the neck and upon skinning it we found his first shot had just grazed the skull between the antlers hitting the base of one. I've seen other times when a graze on the head puts them down kicking but when they recover there's no sign at all. Just a thought!
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RE: Wounded deer question
The shock of the bullet impact probably knocked him down. Temporary nerve damage[&:]. There is going to be very little or no blood trail if avital organ or artery was not hit. If no vitals were hit, then the buck should survive no problem. The only other problem would be if an infection would set in. Even then, the deer can still survive. Deer are very hardy animals and can survive after being severely wounded.
#5
RE: Wounded deer question
We think we saw him a couple weeks later alive and well. He had a very wide spread and i did get some video of a large buck at night (in my youtube link at the bottom of the page), but, since we live in a great deer area, its hard to tell alot of the bucks apart.
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Typical Buck
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RE: Wounded deer question
If you hit one too high in the shoulder, it will will strike the animal inthe vertebrae, which puts the animal in a temporary shock. Then it will recover and be gone with little sign of any kind of hit. If you look at a deer skeleon you will notice wher ethe shoulders are the back bone dips down, however the vertebrae are longer there ans stick up even with the rest of the backbone. If hit it will just shock the spinal cord temporarily dropping the animal.
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RE: Wounded deer question
Same thing kind of happened to me. I shot at a doe and it fell, rolled over a few times, and got up and ran off. My dad and I checked where the deer dropped and just found a handful of hair. We followed its tracks for about 100 yards and found nothing else. We figured that i just grazed part of him.
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RE: Wounded deer question
ORIGINAL: CSIMAN08/OH
My best guess was that he hit it in the antlers. He was using a 20 gauge slug gun.
My best guess was that he hit it in the antlers. He was using a 20 gauge slug gun.