Thread: I found your deer

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!