boacephus
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You know my ethics question about the hobbled buck. Yup I seen em. I didn't pay much attention to his rack. Being an intermediate amatuer, yes I would put my tag on him.
So here is the story. I set up on the fenceline I know they cross every morning. I seen the typical does crossing at the right time, I was just to far E to make a shot. Well a nice young little 8 crossed over, then (lets call him tiny tim). I think he is about a 10pt, fairly heavy. Well he was out there. About 60yds, a shot I wouldn't normally take, but he is hobbled, no wind, nothing in the way, heavily quartering away. So I shot. He took off as well as he could, I figured wow I must have got pretty close. Well he hobbled through the field following the other buck. He can barely keep his hind end of the ground and stumbles around alot. I figure man shotgun did a number on him. So I go to retrieve my arrow. No way my arrow skipped off the snow and got him. What a quandry and an amateur thing to do even shooting at him. Now then what to do. I guess a leg shot, he is already injured so lets push em. I trailed him for about 300 yds and jumped him and the other buck. I proceeded to push hoping to keep him bleeding or catch him on a bed and get another shot off. Easy trail to follow, even without snow it would be an easy trail. After a very long walk I started noticing good blood where he would stop and even some what appeared to be arterial spraying. Thats where I stopped, which is about 500 yds from the river. I'm going back out after tiny when wife gets off work around 3. I'm hoping I will find him. I don't think he will survive the winter from the shotgun wound, and I think my arrow won't suit him for the better. I never found my arrow either, probably about a 1 1/2 mile blood trail, so I'm guessing it glanced off the leg, I never noticed it while he was heading south. I'll update after my jaunt through the timber this afternoon. Hopefully santa will come early for me.
Jumped him up at 4:15 from his bed. Wound has stop bleeding.
So here is the story. I set up on the fenceline I know they cross every morning. I seen the typical does crossing at the right time, I was just to far E to make a shot. Well a nice young little 8 crossed over, then (lets call him tiny tim). I think he is about a 10pt, fairly heavy. Well he was out there. About 60yds, a shot I wouldn't normally take, but he is hobbled, no wind, nothing in the way, heavily quartering away. So I shot. He took off as well as he could, I figured wow I must have got pretty close. Well he hobbled through the field following the other buck. He can barely keep his hind end of the ground and stumbles around alot. I figure man shotgun did a number on him. So I go to retrieve my arrow. No way my arrow skipped off the snow and got him. What a quandry and an amateur thing to do even shooting at him. Now then what to do. I guess a leg shot, he is already injured so lets push em. I trailed him for about 300 yds and jumped him and the other buck. I proceeded to push hoping to keep him bleeding or catch him on a bed and get another shot off. Easy trail to follow, even without snow it would be an easy trail. After a very long walk I started noticing good blood where he would stop and even some what appeared to be arterial spraying. Thats where I stopped, which is about 500 yds from the river. I'm going back out after tiny when wife gets off work around 3. I'm hoping I will find him. I don't think he will survive the winter from the shotgun wound, and I think my arrow won't suit him for the better. I never found my arrow either, probably about a 1 1/2 mile blood trail, so I'm guessing it glanced off the leg, I never noticed it while he was heading south. I'll update after my jaunt through the timber this afternoon. Hopefully santa will come early for me.
Jumped him up at 4:15 from his bed. Wound has stop bleeding.
