Thread: I found your deer

If you gut shot and lost a deer in central NI recently I can tell you where to find it!

What a waste: oh noes:

Good reason to improve our shooting skills! not a good way for any living thing die

Hang about. Did you flip it over? If not, how did you know that it was an entry hole, and not an exit hole? It could have been hit anywhere in the fatal zone on the other side, depending on the angle.

The odd one gets away. The odd one gets hit too far back. We try our best to avoid it, but that’s the reality.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Hang about. Did you flip it over? If not, how did you know that it was an entry hole, and not an exit hole? It could have been hit anywhere in the fatal zone on the other side, depending on the angle.

The odd one gets away. The odd one gets hit too far back. We try our best to avoid it, but that’s the reality.

Could have also been heavily quartering away and that was entry. Or could have just been a bad shot

Shame that, but it has happen to the best of us at some point.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Hang about. Did you flip it over? If not, how did you know that it was an entry hole, and not an exit hole? It could have been hit anywhere in the fatal zone on the other side, depending on the angle.

The odd one gets away. The odd one gets hit too far back. We try our best to avoid it, but that’s the reality.

Yeah who knows, I didn't roll it over... Not too interested in rotting carcass autopsy! Here's a close up attached. Is that exit or entry? Looks like side on entry but I don't really know so maybe someone else does. Not that it matters anyway I just thought it was interesting. Yeah some non-fatal shot are par for the course and I'm no master marksman myself having gut shot animals (that I caught up with fortunately), but not a pleasant experience. The antlers were gone so at first I thought someone had shot it and just taken them but it looks like they had already shed naturally.

I had crept up on it and was about to shoot it but realised it was probably dead... Almost killed a dead deer!

Looks like an exit to me; why would an entry there be any bigger than the bullet diameter?

I lost one on the weekend, it sucks!

I figured it was too round and clean for an exit and the skin had just stretched back a little from rotting... We'll never know, but I'm sure the shooter was pretty unhappy about losing it. Although sometimes you probably aren't certain you hit it anyway if it's that far off or moving that fast. I gut shot a goat once through sheer excitement and it ran off. I found it and put it down half an hour later when it started wailing like a lost child... All part of it but not something I want to repeat any time soon.

No worries,DOC does worse than any hunter would even try to inflict pain or suffering.

And DOC knows it's going to happen, while a hunter does his best to not make it happen.

shit happens