Last year I was on stand on the side of a hill.
Below me to my left was a county road with cow
pastures on the other side.About noon I see
mulitple trucks pull up and a group of weekend
warriors jump out with shotguns and lack of
gun saftey.They headed into woods on the far
side of the pasture.I was family friend with
the hunter and knew of only one other man
allowed to hunt there and it was'nt them.I
was going to ask them about it when they came
back from their drive.Well about 10min later
two young does came running across they field
right at me(the road was between us)from my left
and these yahoos came running after them.Real
hunters they were,trying to chase down the deer.
There was eight hunters and the all opened up
on the two deer,all unloading there guns.The
deer in the lead that was closest to me got hit
in the rear but kept comming at me.the deer be-
hind it got hit about 12 times,I was about 120
yds away and just saw it being impacted with
slugs,it was trying to crawl away(spine hit,back
legs dead)and got hit a few more times.the deer
was still alive so two of the guys shoot it
about 3 times to kill it.All the while one guy
was still leading on the deer heading across
the road,towards me.This idiot shot across the
road and at me,I was head to toe in orange too!
While they loaded the deer in the truck debat-
ing on who "killed it deader" I walked up and
confronted them.I told the idiot he shot at me,
that they should'nt be allowed to hunt after
seeing their deer,that they were poaching and
that they shot across the road.SO? Was all they
said.I told them I was calling the land owner
and sheriff.Never seen overweight rednecks move
so fast.Sad,I honestly thought maybe PETA was
right if the majority of hunters behaved this
way.
In conclusion that is how not to harvest a deer.