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Mercy Killing
Parnell:
Great post.
El Destructo:
Thanks Parnell...He would have been a Beautiful Buck in 2-3 more years...but Nature can be cruel at times...I was just glad that I was there to see how He suffering...and even though there was nothing I could so to mend Him...I could end His slow and cruel death.
Thwackaddict:
Good on You michael! Steward of the month ;) No animal should be left suffering.Many a hunter woulda said ahh hes not big enuf and coyotes will get him,makes me sick!Hats off to you ;D
Ryano:
I'd of done the same thing Mike. I shot a small doe putting on a drive a several years ago that had her one hind leg blown off by another hunter from several days maybe a week before hand. She jumped up in front of me and just tried to limp off so I put her down. She was all full of infection, stinky and nasty. I was going to leave her in the woods, but my bother took her and was able to get a little bit of good meat out it. The smell was enough for me to not want to eat any of it...
Stingray45:
Great job El D! It's to see that hunters still operate this way and do honorable things when they need done. Would have been very easy to just say "eh I'm gonna wait for the big deer I've been hunting". Another thing this makes me think of, especially when you mentioned what was going to happen to the buck if you didn't take him. Either he gets infection, eaten alive by coyotes or starves to death because he cant get up around to feed himself. This is the side that the anti-hunters don't see, how cruel nature can be at times. Good work and look at the bright side, you have meat for the table and the big boy you were hunting will be older and bigger next year.
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