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J Becker

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This buck I would not have shot under normal circumstances because he is not what we are looking for and he would be a great deer next year. Don’t get me wrong, he is a nice deer… I am just holding out for something bigger…


Anyway, we were looking for a deer that was hit by another guy in our party with a muzzleloader Sunday morning after letting it be overnight. I was walking next to a ditch in the timber when I finally saw a buck standing down there 15 yards a way and he didn’t know I was there. I could see that he had been shot recently because of the blood and holes that I saw yet he was still alive. (actually, he was hit once in the neck, right below the chest area, once in the high back, and once in the hip… all before I fired a shot) I got my gun up and took a quick shot at him and put a perfect double-lung/heart shot and he ran only about 30 yards all together out of the ditch and up the hill to where he died. That deer had to be in a lot of pain overnight and I am glad I was able to put him out of his misery… plus, he is a decent deer.

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We also saw another buck and a doe at different times that had flopping legs from being hit and found 2 different blood trails walking around from other wounded deer. Thats just one bad thing about shotgun seasons is that a few bad apples just start shooting at deer… no matter how far, how fast the deer is running, or how bad of a shot the person is. That is just too unfortunate that this has to happen every year.
 
He's a nice one. The bigger thing is that you put him out of his misery. No animal needs to suffer if we can help it. Nice job.
 
I agree, it never fails that during shotgun season I will see a group of deer come busting out of the timber with one of them bleeding from the hind end, a sad sight and a true sore for hunters.
 
I agree, it never fails that during shotgun season I will see a group of deer come busting out of the timber with one of them bleeding from the hind end, a sad sight and a true sore for
hunters.

Sorry I meant to add congrats on a great harvest.

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Well done and congratulations on a nice deer. I wish there were more shotgun hunters that could look at examples such as this.
 
Congratulations on a good buck. Shotgun season is the same here in Illinois. A lot of guys think all they have to do is put a slug into a running deer to fill a tag. That's terrible to have an buck with three rounds in it with none of them in the vitals. Congrasts again on a good buck and a having a more ethical view of hunting than a lot of guys twice you age.
 
Congrats...you did the right thing. This thread got nuked yesterday, wonder if it will survive today
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I deleted the post yesterday. In hind sight, maybe I should have let the gun vs. bow and all the slob hunter debate continue.

I have no problem with a little controversy, but there is nothing to gain from a bow vs gun and them vs us debate. There are slobs in anything we do.

I didn't see anything positive coming from the discussion of whether bow hunters or gun hunters "gimp" more deer.

Most people visiting this site are good ethical hunters and it was like preaching to the choir.

FYI, I have gun hunted and bow hunted for many years and love participating in both seasons.

It is each hunters responsibility to make a clean, one shot kill, regardless of your choice of weapon.

I take more pride in the shot placement than the size of the deer. That should be the goal.

Congrats on your deer Hunterman!
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FYI, I have gun hunted and bow hunted for many years and love participating in both seasons.

It is each hunters responsibility to make a clean, one shot kill, regardless of your choice of weapon.



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I, and I am assuming most of us here, are not pointing fingers at gun hunters. It happens, even durring bow season (I know because I had a buck duck my string and graze him...). I guess my goal with these posts was to put the idea of ethics into all people's minds (including myself) with the shotgun seasons in full swing...
 
Glad you shot him but did you have to tag him? First blood always takes the buck home in our group. Congrats on sticking with him regardless!
 
Very well said kent.You hit the nail right on the head. congrats on that fine deer.You did the right thing. Our main goal as hunters is to make quick clean kills.No matter what we are shooting.
 
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