Kid shot one, kinda

[horst]

Last night I dropped my dad and my 12 year Austin year old off to hunt a food plot on some public ground while I went to look over another area.They were walking down the edge where the foodplot and grove come together and Austin seen a buck lying in the edge of he grove.It was dead and they walked up to look at it closer.It was a nice 8 pointer, a younger deer but had a decent rack for it age.

Dad kneeled down and told Austin the deer was still warm, he grabbed the antlers and pulled the deers neck out straight to see if it had been shot by someone.Austing was standing back a little bit watching and when the deers head was pulled out he said "Grandpa, that deer just blinked its eyes"

Dad stepped around to Austins side of the deer and seen it had its eyes open now and noticed its front leg was busted.Thinking the deer was about dead he stuck his leg out gave it a light kick in the butt.The "dead" deer suddenly jumped to its feet scared them both pretty good, Dad back pedaled out of the way and Austin waited untill he was clear and shot it through the lungs with his ML.

Turned out it had been hit by a car and not shot as they first though, both front legs were broke, Im not even sure how it managed to get up.I wasnt sure how bad the deer was busted up when I got back so we pulled him out to the road and I called the local Game warden, told him what had happened with the deer and that I wasnt sure if we wanted to tag him since i didnt know if he was even fit to eat and would have died anyway by morning.

He was great about it, we visited on the phone for about 10 minutes about deer numbers and the amount of hunters Id run into, and he told me to go ahead and take the deer home since it had been run over he would just give me a salvage tag for it and Austin could keep hunting.We got back to town and I dressed the deer out, turned out the smell I noticed was just gas and the guts werent busted up to bad, most of the deers still good as far as I can tell.

[wtnhunt]

Cool the warden there is understanding Chris. Got a pretty decent one here now too. Congrats to Austin on putting the deer down too.

[earnhardts12000]

wow what story

scared ba jeepers out imagine thinking it was dead lol good kid learned valuable lesson not lettin deer suffer anymore good job kid

[Tominator]

Good deal Chris. Cool that Austin gets to keep hunting.

[horst]

Cool the warden there is understanding Chris. Got a pretty decent one here now too. Congrats to Austin on putting the deer down too.

Wardens almost to understanding at times.About 4 years ago there was a deer hit out on the highway, it made it out into the field where we lost sight of it.Called the GW and told him there was a crippled deer out there still alive and would he come out and put it down.He said just take your shotgun out there and put her down and takeher home if you want.

Ordinarilly this would have been great but it was 9:30 at night on the side of a busy highway and the sherrifs office was on thier way out to look at the car {sherrif wont put down wounded deer here}.I opted to pass on that as he hadnt called in to tell them I was running around with a loaded shotgun out in the field

[toddyboman]

cool!! Glad to hear the warden was understanding

I can't imagine what grandpa and Austin thought as the deer they just was within feet from touching JUMPS up and runs.....YIKES:eek::eek:

Way to go Austin on putting down the deer :)

[The Kid]

thats kewl i think that would have made me jump too!!