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Posted: 1/6/2013 10:45:43 AM EDT

Damn shame, probably a poacher on my land gut shot it.

Posted: 1/6/2013 10:53:00 AM EDT

[#1]

Posted: 1/6/2013 11:08:13 AM EDT

[#2]

Nice buck. Could have died from EHD instead of being shot.

Posted: 1/6/2013 11:10:25 AM EDT

[#3]

They do often die on their own without human assistance.

Posted: 1/6/2013 11:11:32 AM EDT

[#4]

Nice find. My uncle went out hunting today (in the woods on his property behind his house) and found a freshly shot dead buck that had run in from somewhere else.

Posted: 1/6/2013 11:15:46 AM EDT

[#5]

Good looking antlers on that guy.

Posted: 1/6/2013 11:23:26 AM EDT

[#6]

Coyotes sure ate good...

Posted: 1/6/2013 11:25:09 AM EDT

[#7]

I don't think it was chronic wasting nor blue tongue as my property is bordered by a big river so no standing water to drink from. My buddy who was with me is a wildlife biologist for the state and estimated the deer to be only 4 years old. I suspect it's the son of a guy I let hunt there with me and his shitty bow skills.

Posted: 1/6/2013 12:25:29 PM EDT

[#8]

That's a shame

Posted: 1/6/2013 2:05:16 PM EDT

[#9]

What a shame.

The one pic where I can see his bottom jaw sure looks like that deer's pretty young. Might be 5.5. Can't see for sure.

Posted: 1/6/2013 4:21:35 PM EDT

[#10]

happens quite often...sucks

Posted: 1/8/2013 5:45:13 AM EDT

[#11]

That would have been a nice one... Sry to hear

Posted: 1/8/2013 5:10:50 PM EDT

[#12]

Damn!!! Hate that for you P08.

Posted: 1/8/2013 6:02:17 PM EDT

[#13]

Too bad the poacher(assuming that was the cause of death) was lucky and didn't get caught. My F-I-L's neighbor shot an 8-pointer during the antlerless hunt last year and got caught driving home by a DNR warden when the glass on his trucks camper opened while driving, exposing the rack. Said neighbor is banned from the property indefinitely, though I don't know what he was fined by the DNR.

Posted: 1/10/2013 6:47:09 PM EDT

[#14]

Found 3 this year on public lands; one dead at least a year and all bones scattered, one with a little more meat than that one, and one gut shot I would guess a week before I found it, chewed on a little bit. 1 spike, 1 4 point and 1 8 point

Posted: 1/11/2013 8:29:09 PM EDT

[#15]

I usually find at least one or two every year; I've never found one that nice though.

Posted: 1/13/2013 4:03:56 PM EDT

[#16]

Doesn't appear the buck tried to find concealment. Tells me the buck died rather quickly.

Posted: 1/14/2013 7:47:36 AM EDT

[#17]

FYI - Make sure to call in and request an Incidental Kill tag for the head from DNR.

Posted: 1/14/2013 9:41:55 AM EDT

[#18]

Years ago when I was coon hunting 3-5 nights a week I would find a lot of dead deer after deer season. Most of them had some kind of arrow wound. I found a couple that had apparently been killed by coyotes.

Posted: 1/20/2013 3:43:10 AM EDT

[#19]

Damnit boy what a buck..

I found one with a rack that large in a borrow pit once,, you could see it had a broken leg that apparently came from a strike with an automobile.. You find a 140 class rack in SC,, that is a rare thing...

I know I'll get blown up for being a dog hunter,, but..

That's one good thing about hunting deer with dogs.. The dogs have tracking collars,,, and they will go and stay with a downed deer... We recover way more deer that would have been lost now with the use of tracking collars and or gps on the dogs...