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Deer death
JW_Halverson:
This may be anthropomorphizing greatly, but I am reminded of a story a friend's WWII vet father used to relate every once in a while when he was trying to illustrate how we kids needed to toughen up. He went all through basic and deployed to the European theatre with the same bunch of guys. He says there was one fellow that shirked every detail, cut corners everywhere, but was a mean son-of-a-biscuit. Another guy was jovial, everybody's best buddy, but just couldn't help but react poorly whenever things got tough. In one particular bad stretch of battle the slacker s-o-b had a leg blown off, handed off his grenades and ammo to his buddies, and used his belt as a tourniquet. He was left behind. They picked him up two days later. He had managed to mop up two enemy with nothing more than his knife. The happy-go-lucky guy took a bullet in the shoulder and promptly died.
Hard to say whether deer have differing philosophies or reactions to adversity as humans do. But I know dogs sure as heck do!
I have always wanted a decent study done on deer being hit with an arrow when unaware of the shooter, versus those hit when aware, versus those hit when aware and on elevated alert. Of the three, I would much rather stick a deer with it'd head down munching browse while it is humming a happy little tune to itself about how it is a wunnerful day to be alive! Personally, my shortest trail was under twenty yards from where he was hit, and it was on a buck in rut that knew exactly where I was, what I was doing, and that I had been the one to deal the death blow to his boiler room. But he was also in with a bunch of does that were not alarmed and here at the peak of estrus. He died trying to get a leg up on one of them! He went out working on his favorite part of the year!
BowEd:
It could be the shock impact of hitting bone alarms deer as opposed to going through just flesh that makes them run harder in the beginning.Excluding head shots of course.Both terminal if in the vitals but different reactions to it.
sleek:
My only bow kill was difficult to say the least. It was a deep angle, went through the stomach first, then the diaphragm, took the corner off a lung, missed the heart and center pumched the other lung and exited the other side. Blood all ove the impact site. I tracked it about 300 yards hands and knees through all kinds of brush, hills, tall dead grass that has purple spots all over when it dies... i found half my arrow 50 yards in, then the other half about another 50. I suspect she was pushed perhaps by yotes.
BowEd:
That's a good job trailing sleek.Proud of ya.
After over 50 years of hunting I don't think there's any predictable reason why deer run farther one time then another.
Like everything else in this world you prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
BowEd:
Many times here there are deer/turkeys/coon all eating together at the bird feeder here in the dead of the winter on a sunny abnormal warmer day for the coon to be there.Good entertainment!!!
I will say I've had more bucks generally walk away from being shot then does though.Could be they are in a different state of mind I don't quite know.
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