Strut_Buster Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 Well I am back from my hunting. Saturday I saw 10 doe and a small 6 point and a fork. Sunday was my big day. I was waiting in my stand and about at 8:30, what appears to be a nice buck enters the thicket to my left. 2 up, and I just wanted to shoot the first 8 I saw this year just to get some horns. Well it turns out it was an even better deal cause it was a 3 pointer cause it was about 2 1/2 years old and poor mass and bad antlers. On one side and almost a rail on the other the 3 points. So he was a good one to get rid of. But I get done gutting him.. get back into my stand and an hour later I notice a 5 point 1 1/2 year old. I was like "awesome great deer in another 2 years!" So he tried to jump the fence and fell flat on his face I kinda chuckled thinking he totaly wiffed when jumped, but my amusement went into anger when i saw him climing the ridge limping and falling over. My anger was because his foot was blown off. Already with a buck tag spent. I really didn't wanna shoot it. But after i gave it a final survival test. I kicked my stand and he tried to run and fell over. I just gave a mercy kill. I figure better me eatin the meat instead of a coyote. But that is upsetting. I really hate it when people do this kinda thing. People who just don't know how to shoot. Shure accidents happen but in the last 3 years I have made 2 mercy killings. One was an 8 point with its jaw blown off. It just angers me that some people don't respect the animal enough to make a clean shot. I will only shoot at a running deer if its within 50 yards. Any farther and theres a good chance of wounding one. I'm Just frustrated that so many people arround me hunt like that. I have nothing agains deer drives but when i hear them unloading their rifles and wounding deer it angers me. So anyone else make a mercy kill yet this year. Was i wrong to shoot it, cause i wasn't shure if it would make it this winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NY911Bowhunter Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! No way man, you did a big thing! Better than the slob that wounded it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popgun Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! You were right to take it. I hate to see one suffer or be pulled apart and eaten alive by coyotes. My son took an 7 point Sunday noon that already had its left rear leg blown off. It was a wound that was days old, but at least the buck won't suffer any more and is now in our freezer. Fact of the matter is, he would have taken him even if it had all four legs. It was a pretty good buck, but nothing to have mounted. .....popgun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyj987 Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! I agree, you definitely did the right thing. I'm sick of ethical hunters having to "clean up" after idiots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! You did the right thing. Having similar problems around here. Pretty sure after this past weekend we have several wounded deer running around here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan_Til_I_Die Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! How in the heck can anyone miss so badly that he would hit a deer in the foot? That has to be 2 1/2 or 3 feet from the point of aim! Geez, I can see a few inches, but FEET? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snapper Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! Unless caught by yotes...he prob. would have lived. I'm not going to comment on the "poor hunters" debate. Alot of things can happen and none of us were there when this buck got shot in the foot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
total disaster Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! you did the right thing in my books! I would have done the same.... a animal as fine as that dose not need to suffer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimT Posted November 24, 2004 Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! You did the right thing for sure. I have been lucky, and have not had to make a mercy kill. That would suck for sure. I know guys who cannot shoot a rifle for beans, and use shotguns with buckshot. I am not a fan of either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VermontHunter Posted November 24, 2004 Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! I have to agree with you totally I have past up bucks this year alone do to the fact I was not 100% of the outcome of my shot. One was just recently hunting with Vtbowman I let one walk because I just wasn't comfortable with the yardage, I am in no way a slouch of a shot, and I feel in no way obligated to prove my shooting by taking a chance of wounding a deer or any other game. I don't think you wasted a tag at all and did the most humanley and moral thing a respectful hunter could possibly do. Congrats on a ethical kill.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowhntr Posted November 24, 2004 Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! You done the right thing. I'd have done the same. I would have in Ohio last week if I had gotten the chance. I saw a dandy 6 point in a cornfield around noon and I thought it was odd. As he turned to run I saw something weird so I grabbed my binoculars and took a better look. It was an arrow sticking about 12 inches out of his left side. The shot had hit him right in front of the hams and just under the backbone. With the arrow hitting there I figured it either had to have angled even further back into a hip joint or was a very low poundage bow. That arrow should have sailed right through that area of the gut. I watched him head into a thicket and figured he would bed down there. I set up that afternoon on the backside of the thicket with intentions of taking that buck if I saw him again. Dont know if he survived or not. I never saw him again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billygoat Posted November 24, 2004 Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! Wisconsin is known as one of the great whitetail states, but after 18 years of hunting deer here... I am increasingly aware of many of the idiots that we have in the woods... and the numbers keep growing. Many of these guys never pick up a gun from year to year, except for opening morning... they couldn't tell you where the gun is hitting at 50 yards yet alone if they have dropped it, what type of ammo they are shooting (many have 2 or 3 different brands in their pocket). Many of these idiots never see the woods til opening morning, they trompse accross anyone's land (like the individual who shot the 6 up north) and they take pride in their ignorance... I just wish I new the solution to the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deer huntin k-man Posted November 24, 2004 Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! I remember two years ago a guy shot a spike in the back leg where I hunt. I couldnt belive that he could do this and even come out and tell a stranger about it. Oh ya, he also said he was a Marine marksman. He had some patches on his camo that had to do with marksmanship in the Marines but how could a marksman hit something in the back leg. I was disgusted by this guy and didnt feel safe in the same woods as him so my buddies and I went to a different place for the afternoon hunt. Thankfully we havent seen him back there since then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddhunter Posted November 24, 2004 Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! You did do the right thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jereseyhunter101 Posted November 24, 2004 Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! Yea i agree with snapper unles that deer was caught by coyotes he would have lived. Havent you guys ever seen deer with three legs living perfectley fine. And how can you say something about that hunter that you dont know. You dont know how it was shot or what happened. It could have even been ran over. I have seen this happen but by putting someone down that you dont know isnt right. And what you did was illegal for another reason. That deer prolly would have been a nice deer in the next year. But not now cause you killed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missed160 Posted November 24, 2004 Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! I hunt western Minnesota for pheasants late, after the gun season. You guys would not believe the amount of dead deer we find laying in the sloughs, dead, shot. Some were hit good, obviously didn't go far after being shot, it's just that the pigs didn't even bother to go looking for them.. Out there, most of the deer hunting is driving small woodlots & swamps, and groups of guys blasting away at everything that runs out.. That is what I think of when I hear "Poor Hunters" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut_Buster Posted November 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! [ QUOTE ] Yea i agree with snapper unles that deer was caught by coyotes he would have lived. Havent you guys ever seen deer with three legs living perfectley fine. And how can you say something about that hunter that you dont know. You dont know how it was shot or what happened. It could have even been ran over. I have seen this happen but by putting someone down that you dont know isnt right. And what you did was illegal for another reason. That deer prolly would have been a nice deer in the next year. But not now cause you killed it. [/ QUOTE ] What did I do that was Illegal? I know I would have been a nice deer next year... it wouldn't have made it though. Coyotes in my area are numerous. I know my neighbors and how they hunt and I'm sick of it. Its no secret to what they do and they don't care either way if they wound it or kill it as long as they get their shoulder action Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutchies Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! I will not take a shot unless I feel that it will be a one shot kill. There is no reason to shoot 3 or 4 shots at a deer. The way I feel is that I can always kill it another day. I have not shot many deer in my life but the ones I hit were one shot kills. My six pointer had no hear or lungs when I opened him up. He fell and died instantly . The way it should be. I feel that a shooting test should be set up for anyone wanting to hunt. Why not they make them take hunters education why don't they make them take shooters education. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horst Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! [ QUOTE ] It just angers me that some people don't respect the animal enough to make a clean shot. [/ QUOTE ] Im not gonna comment on shooting the deer, I wasnt there and dont know howbad he was.Ive done the same thing in the past and would again in the right situation.As far as him living through it he definately might have, unless he got an infection, or eaten by yotes. That remark kinda irritated me though.You werent there when he was shot.are you sure he was shot?I had to put one down the other day whos hind leg was gone below the knee,He had been hit by a car though.If I hadnt already known hed been run over Id of assumed it was a gun shot.If Id found him this weekend Id of assumed it was from the shotgun hunters. and sometimes even a clean looking shot can go terribly wrong, even for the best marksman , and sometimes for no apparent reason.Have you ever lost a deer after you shot it?If not, you will.Not trying to sound like a jerk or anything, but it happens to everyone at some point, dont neccasarily make them a "poor hunter".Dont get me wrong, there are some out there, but that deer coulda come from anywhere and any number of things coulda happened to its leg, labeling people might not be the best thing to do in a situation like that unless you know the circumstances behind the shot, just MHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossman Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! You did the right thing!!!! This is what can happen when people try to make farther shots than they are capable of!!!!! Kind of like realtree's milk river hunt!!!! Shooting a bow at a deer at 60+ yards. Bull crap if you ask me. Luckily I have never had to make amercy kill, but I would if I needed to!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut_Buster Posted November 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 Re: Frustrated With Poor Hunters! Ahem. I'm gonna Deffend thte poor hunter statement. I know how they hunt. You don't. I've witnessed it first had for years and I'm sick of having to make clean up kills cause those **** can't shoot for ****. All they do is drive, I don't have a problem with that. But when I'm sitting in my tower watching them shoot at a deer a couple hundred yards away bounding full bore accross the landscape, shooting many shots. It really angers me. Every year they do it. I have to make 2 cleanup kills in the last 3 years. Both times the deer came from their fenceline. The Buck with his jaw blown off had his tail up and a fesh wound troting with his tail up from their fenceline is rediculous. And when I previously heard 4 gunshots. I shot it and waited for a guy to come track it. It had a good blood trail easily visible. Nah, they just cept hunting. Yeah... People who hunt Like this are poor hunters and i don't give a **** if one of them read this. They just don't have a clue. Call me a Jerk if you want but they are the true Jerks IMO. I know someday I will make a bad shot. It happens to everyone. But at least I will spend a good deal of time looking for the animal before i go take another. Yes the deer numbers are numerous, but hey, I respect deer. Call me a whimp for that but I don't like to see an animal suffer. That buck i shot Prolly would have died. Like i have said, coyotes are numerous in our area. And yes i do enjoy vennison as much as antlers. Thats why I shoot does and almost every year cleanup wounded deer instead of shooting another. I figured its better to be in my freezer than in a coyotes belly. That and respect are why i killed this deer. So if you think I'm makeing a judgement on a claim that has no bounds, evidence, or proof. I don't care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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