kshunter

We found this buck on opening morning of rifle season on my grandpas land. It was shot with a rifle and been dead for around a day or so. The poacher who shot it just left it, within sight of the road. It's a shame that this deer went to waist. Was a descent buck now but had some potential. Could've been a real good one in a couple years. I attached a couple pics.

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cardeer

Any deer like that you dont want ,send them to pa.,the does could use some good big deer seed.Poaching is out of control here

1950KID

The deer looks like it was shot kind of far back. Maybe it got away from someone. I'd like to think so.

Dan B

1950kid, I was thinking the same thing when I saw the pictures except that kshunter said it had been found opening morning within sight of a road. It does sound like poachers to me. It's a shame that is a nice deer.

Dan Blair

Rickmur

What a shame.

Rick

Tazman

kshunter that is a shame, when I looked at the first pic I thought, "Man that one is a monster", then I saw the second pic and with a hand in there I see what you mean, even though it is a twelve point it had a smallish rack in reality, he would have been a lot bigger next season. Oh and they sure shot him pretty far back.

The Tazman

mobrandy

I found the same thing this year bow hunting 9 point hit just about the same exact spot. And the kicker is it fell right under one of my tree stands. I wish people would respect the animal more!

EAT What You Harvest, Mobrandy

timbercruiser

From a tree it could have been a gut shot. Was there and exit hole or evidence of the angle of shot?

Johnny

Here ya go.

kshunter

The hole that you can see was where it went in. We turned it over and on the backside there was a bigger hole, about in the same spot. It was a bad gut shot that stunk pretty bad when we rolled him over. I first we thought someone shot it that morning, but with it being stiff and cold from a rifle shot, and only being light for 2-3 hours on opening day, it's obvious it wasn't taken shot anywhere, legally. I mean it's one thing to poach a deer and take it home to use it, but another to shoot one and leave it there to rot, even though both are completely wrong. Thanks for posting pics Johnny.
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Edited by - kshunter on 01/07/2002 10:37:56