Hunting & Fishing Anyone seen this before?

[MLC]

I finally caught up with a nuisance deer that had been rubbing up a bunch of my small trees.
When I skinned him I found someone had given him a love tap with a broadhead, perhaps last season.
There wasn't any indication of internal damage, just the telltale Benz crest in the fat of his flank.

Have you found this on deer you've skinned?

 

[coldboremiracle]

Re: Anyone seen this before?

I've heard of it, but never found it, of course the deer I usually shoot are still wet, so they haven't had a chance to get shot. Or at least someone with more self respect than myself wouldn't have taken the shot.

 

[MLC]

Re: Anyone seen this before?

Meaning fawns?
I'm not clear on what still wet means.
On the self respect front, I did shoot a buck off a does back while he was trying to poke her 2 years ago.

 

[spaniel]

Re: Anyone seen this before?

I've shot a couple deer with both healed and infected broadhead wounds. I had to toss the first buck I ever shot because of both infected broadhead and buckshot wounds.

 

[coldboremiracle]

Re: Anyone seen this before?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MLC</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Meaning fawns?
I'm not clear on what still wet means.
On the self respect front, I did shoot a buck off a does back while he was trying to poke her 2 years ago. </div></div>

Meaning, young bucks yes, legal bucks, but not very big.

Kudos on the Fuckshot, I killed a pair of rabbits once that were too horny to notice bullets landing nearby.

 

[Tripwire]

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Seen a doe's skull sitting on a fireplace mantle in a bow shop in Belmont, New York some years back. Had an old Bear two blade buried in the nasal cavity. Funny part was, bone had grown back around it. The shaft wood had broken off flush but still remained inside the broadhead's taper. The skull was found in the woods picked clean and it was figured the deer died of natural causes due to the amount of bone that formed around the metal.

 

[168BTHPM]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MLC</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
On the self respect front, I did shoot a buck off a does back while he was trying to poke her 2 years ago. </div></div>

I did the same thing two years ago just north of Great Falls Montana. A doe saw me and froze in her tracks, the buck thought woohoo here we go and jumped on, sorry dude just not your day, boom.

I shot a cow elk near Gardiner the year before, she had a healed over wound on her left hip, inside the muscle was a softball size hard lump, the butcher cut it open and found a .22lr bullet in it.

 

[Shyty]

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I've never shot any thing that has had a bullet or broadhead in it. I've had friends that have, but I have a question. Can you tell if the meet is infected or not? How bad the infection is. Is the whole deer ruined from the infection? I know if I killed a deer and started skinning it and saw alot of infection, puss, or other fluid I'm not used to seeing I would probably get rid of the whole deer.

 

[ggmanning]

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Killed a doe several years ago that had a lump on her head. Skinned it out to investigate and it was about 2/3 of a mini broad head completely healed over. She showed no ill effects and had I not been cleaning her i would have never noticed. Also caught a 25# red grouper this summer with a 10/0 hook in the side of his head. Not unusual to find that in a fish but unusual in a fish 60 miles out in 140' of water.

 

[Biscuit]

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Cut the shit outta my hand once on a broadhead that had healed into the shoulder of a deer I was butchering. Bone had grown around it pretty good, thing was still razor sharp.

 

[psinclair]

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I've pulled several broadheads out of quite a few different bull elk over the years. Some of them were really big bulls....heartbreakers!! Most of them were healthy and doing fine.