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Published: 2011-12-02 03:58:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 325; Favourites: 4; Downloads: 3
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Description Alright kiddies... I am partly doing this because I have been bashed once today by someone for hunting and you know what I just feel like being a troll. If You have a problem with this then by God don't look at it. If you are going to say something about it please make it worth my while. I don't mind having a calm logical conversation about hunting and the good and the bads about it. I am not a cold hearted killer who hates animals. The story behind the buck proves that. I will not put up with stupidity. this is the way we feed ourselves as we boy cot meat from supermarkets ( yes that means we kill our own cows, pigs and chickens.) I am not going to deal with some ignorant fool who thinks their petty insults are going to hurt me. That being said please refrain from spamming this page with bull shit. Thank you.

Story behind the deer:

A success! This big guy was actually taken out of pity and mercy. Earlier in the year we rescued him from poachers. I was guiding my cousin on a bow hunt and we happened to find some guys tromping across the private property. It is our property no one was supposed to be there but us. So we get up and go running over. After a bit of a Mexican stand off me pulling my knife and my cousin pulling his side arm. Seeing that I was dead serious about putting them both in the boothill they left quickly.

So we were like ... wonder what they were hurrying after. We get up over the hill and here's this huge buck tangled up in snare wire and barbed wire from the fence they ran him through. As much as we wanted to shoot him neither of us had the heart to do it. He was healthy and scared out of his mind, panting with his mouth open big eyes looking at us. So I threw my jacket over his head and quickly put my arm over his neck, covering his eyes under the jacket with one hand and holding his foreleg up out of the way.

My cousin cut the wire away and then traded places with me so I could check him over. I am in no way a vet but I did my best. He had some nasty cuts on his flank and across his belly, but it didn't really look too bad. His left hind leg was swollen up pretty good from where he took out the fence I assume and it made it hard to feel much of anything. He had what I assumed was a bullet wound on his back, knowing my animal anatomy... I was worried that it had hit his spine but he was moving just fine. That would have explained why he was running in the first place and why he didn't get over the fence

So We stepped back and he struggled to his feet and limped a few hundred yards away, looked back at us and limped out of sight hardly using that back leg.

It was ... of about a week or so after that I was taking the same cousins bother out with his rifle. I was going to show him where we had rescued the big ol buck and then we were going to check this little bend in the river not far off for fresh sign. So we got to where the fence had been torn up and the wire and shit was still there. We walk about ... 3 miles, crossing over one of our fences to the river and I am shocked to look up and see that familiar rack sticking up out of the grass.

First thought is that he passed not to long after we rescued him. As we started going towards him we were both shocked to see him get up and run toward the fence. There really wasn't any time to shoot because what happened next put us both in disbelief. If you have never heard a bone snap... you wont know what I am talking about when i say that he jumped the four strand fence , landed on his forelegs on the other side and the most god awful sound sent him spiraling to the ground.
I was about half see when he tried to get up and crawl away I remember almost shoving my cousin off his feet yelling "Put him down, put him down!"

He quickly put the animal down and when we got up to him it was obvious that his back had broken just about the same area the wound was. Needless to say ... we went home with an amazing story a beautiful animal and meat to put in the freezer.
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Comments: 20

LittleGrayTiger [2012-01-24 00:10:52 +0000 UTC]

That's a heartbreaking story, but an incredibly beautiful animal. As a taxidermist and hopefully-someday hunter, I admire what you did in trying to help him to start with. I also admire that your thoughts when you saw him the second time were again of concern and mercy, not just, "Heck yeah easy kill!". That's a real hunter, someone who cares about the wildlife they hunt.

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soulstrifer In reply to LittleGrayTiger [2012-01-24 00:35:36 +0000 UTC]

For us as hunters there is no fun in an easy kill. If we just absolutely need the meat we will take anything that walks out and is legal. If we have the choice we like the hunt. Its amazing to have to throw down a three hour stalk on your belly to get that shot. Part of hunting is just getting to be out there. Listening to the nature around you seeing everything there is to see. Its a bonus if you make the kill but the best part is being with friends and family and getting out of civilization. There needs to be respect for the animals that give us food. Without it we just wont get anywhere :3

I do mostly bow hunting but I guide as well. It's just my thing I guess. We have a group here on DA for the hunters or aspiring hunters. We post up the vast majority of our kills there and stories. [link]
Feel free to join and post up any Tax and stuff that you want to show off. We have one guy in Australia who posts wild game recipes.

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hipknowtizer87 [2012-01-21 06:27:52 +0000 UTC]

Looks like good eatin'.

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soulstrifer In reply to hipknowtizer87 [2012-01-21 17:12:35 +0000 UTC]

The best there is man!

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greenzaku [2011-12-10 13:35:08 +0000 UTC]

I don't know much about deer, but....are his antlers asymmetrical? Its intriguing...

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soulstrifer In reply to greenzaku [2011-12-10 23:23:22 +0000 UTC]

Yep. Hes got a drop tine off the one side behind his ear. They grow abnormalities like that not just from genetics but also from injuries. What is interesting is that the abnormality will grow on the side opposite the side that got injured. They call it Non-Typical.

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greenzaku In reply to soulstrifer [2011-12-11 00:48:05 +0000 UTC]

Not only that, bu the antlers on that side look a lot thicker too, and branch at different areas. What's with the black bands on the tip of the antler on the 'normal' side?

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soulstrifer In reply to greenzaku [2011-12-11 02:46:51 +0000 UTC]

Thats where his tag it taped on. You have to have a tag to tag a deer here it helps the game and fish officers pick out those taking deer legally and those killing them illegally.

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Amnicore [2011-12-02 06:01:50 +0000 UTC]

I remember a loooong time ago in a land far far away when my neighbor went hunting and brought back a deer he shot, it looked so cute, like it was sleeping. I climbed in the back of his truck and sat with it and pet its head... then that night they made venison burritos XD

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soulstrifer In reply to Amnicore [2011-12-02 07:06:15 +0000 UTC]

I have a thing about petting and sitting with the animals I take... talking to them thanking them for giving their life for me and wishing them a peaceful passing across the RainbowBridge

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JennieO-of-Hyrule64 [2011-12-02 04:35:45 +0000 UTC]

*did put him down.

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JennieO-of-Hyrule64 [2011-12-02 04:35:13 +0000 UTC]

Wow, is that an 11 point buck? He looks gorgerous! But what a shame about the poachers trespassing on the property poor guy with the wire. )= kinda sad that he shouldn't have go on with his final moments in pain from his broken back, but I am glad your cousin did.

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soulstrifer In reply to JennieO-of-Hyrule64 [2011-12-02 04:46:17 +0000 UTC]

Hes actually got one more up top on the side with the drop tine that ticks out the back there on that little fork but its just barely big enough to count. Hes a beaut ain't he? I was so mad finding those damn poachers on the property If the role had been reversed and my cousin had the knife and me the gun I think I would have shot them. It really made me mad. The poor thing had been scared out of his mind half crazed trying to get out of that wire. That's why we just let him go during the bow hunt. He had seen enough trauma. It isn't fair chase when he's tangled up in the wire and looked perfectly alright when we walked off. Seeing him fall after jumping and that sound it really did make me sick to my stomach. I might be a hunter and I might get bloody when we field dress but that doesn't mean I don't care about the animals that give their lives to put food on my table.

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JennieO-of-Hyrule64 In reply to soulstrifer [2011-12-02 04:55:47 +0000 UTC]

Ah, so a tweleve point then? Hmmm, I think shooting the poacerswould have been extreme, but I wouldn't blamed you that they tried to slow the buck down with the barb wire in the first place. I hate seeing animals being traumatized and I'm sorry you had to hear it. No amount of gore just from hunting an animal will ever ever match up to the gore from intent harm. . . Makes me mad to see how there are people who only go to hunt for trophies than for meat and think it's funny to hurt an animal. The bastards.

But still he is a beauty. How much meat you think you'll get off of him?

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soulstrifer In reply to JennieO-of-Hyrule64 [2011-12-02 05:30:56 +0000 UTC]

Well field dressed he weighed in at a little over 195 hes a big boy. lots of good meat there and a good hide to tan up and work with. Saving shoulder blades, rib bones and some of the larger leg bones to carve on.

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JennieO-of-Hyrule64 In reply to soulstrifer [2011-12-03 05:26:03 +0000 UTC]

Wow, that's alot of meat. And bones are just so mystic feeling to hold in my hands, I can't wait to see what kind of carvings you do

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soulstrifer In reply to JennieO-of-Hyrule64 [2011-12-03 05:44:09 +0000 UTC]

^^ I have a rune set on wolf knuckle bones that I adore. I will make sure to post pictures

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JennieO-of-Hyrule64 In reply to soulstrifer [2011-12-04 09:23:00 +0000 UTC]

That sounds awesome. Shame it's illegal to have wolf parts here were I live, otherwise I would have loved to have a set of wolf knuckles. I may get coyote knuckles instead. And I would love to see them if you ever do post the pictures

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soulstrifer In reply to JennieO-of-Hyrule64 [2011-12-04 09:24:50 +0000 UTC]

Of course!

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JennieO-of-Hyrule64 In reply to soulstrifer [2011-12-04 09:35:45 +0000 UTC]

Great XD I'll stop spamming your deviation page now. Hah hah

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