Have to vent

[megalomaniac]

I'm about sick of this. New hunters moved in beside one of my properties, blasting and blasting and blasting.

The exploded our 6.5yo blind bucks left front shoulder. Completely unable to bear weight. He already had a tough life, deserved better than this.

Now another young buck with right leg blown off and shot thru backstraps. Just horrible.

 

[deerhunter10]

The amount of bad shots I've seen, heard, and read about this year seem way higher then years past. It's terrible. There's a post a day on Facebook about a dog/ drone.

 

[Spurhunter]

Absolutely disgraceful. Probably got a boresighted gun/scope combo and figured it was "close enough to kill a deer".

 

[Iglow]

There just aint enough land, the more people the worse everything gets.

 

[Lost Lake]

It sucks for sure. Sooner or later, we all run into to it if we own or hunt a property long enough.

Hopefully they learn to make better shots or shooting choices.

 

[ImThere]

Absolutely pitiful.

 

[ttf909]

Have some jackwagon neighbors that kills deer all year long and let's their stupid mutts drag the remains all over the place. Neighbors suck mostly

 

[Volbuck777]

I'm going through the same thing. Hang in there. It's tough, idk what a man can do.

 

[Hymie3]

Got off a lease cause the head guy is an idiot and would shoot at any descent buck no matter if it was running or just too far for most people.. He seeks approval so bad he is willing to take the shots. I found dead heads every single year close to his tower during turkey season. I know it happens to all of us sometimes but when you just flat out don't care it really gets under my skin.

 

[killingtime 41]

There just aint enough land, the more people the worse everything gets.

that's a fact aint it. I'm sure they're locals right.

 

[Ski]

I feel for you. It's a problem for sure. Both those deer are going to die horrible deaths being eaten alive by coyotes. They're going to suffer until that. Unfortunately we share the herd with @$$holes who have no respect for anything.

 

[TNTreeman]

I hate that . Most that hunt for very long makes a bad shot but folks that continually take crazy , poor angled , long shots tick me off. Wounding one and not knowing what happened to it should bother you imo.

 

[Snake]

I haven't seen very much and let a decent buck walk because I couldn't get a decent shot. Most think that their gun will shoot through anything or just because it's in the scope they can hit the target . Hate it for you man.

 

[Urban_Hunter]

I haven't seen very much and let a decent buck walk because I couldn't get a decent shot. Most think that their gun will shoot through anything or just because it's in the scope they can hit the target . Hate it for you man.

True. How many times have I heard "I hunt thickets so I shoot a 7-mag"….

 

[TNRifleman]

It's almost like the 6.5CM isn't the problem but its the inexperienced hunters who don't know how to put a bullet where it's supposed to go are.

 

[megalomaniac]

I feel for you. It's a problem for sure. Both those deer are going to die horrible deaths being eaten alive by coyotes. They're going to suffer until that. Unfortunately we share the herd with @$$holes who have no respect for anything.

We went ahead and killed the 6.5yo this weekend. He was sort of our mascot last few years, nearly every adult had passed him up a couple times. He was hit right where the scapula meets the humorous, and the joint, bone above and below were exploded.

The other bucks leg is broken at the knee. He has a good chance of surviving, so we probably won't kill him.

Just feel sick that we never had to deal with this problem until last year. I found a couple deer that made it back over the fence to my land and died last year, and now already have 2 cripples still alive that I know of this year.

 

[rem270]

Have a neighbor about 800 yards to the north that apparently likes to do head shots. Or at least I think he does. 2 years ago I heard a shot in that direction and a lil while later the neighbor to the east sent a pic of a 3 pt that supposedly a kid in diapers killed and it was a head shot.

Fast forward to this year and I heard a shot from that way on a Thursday morning. The following Saturday I had a kid with me and he shot a decent 8 pt. Was his first buck so I was letting him shoot anyways. Come to find out it had been shot in the jaw and was in rough shape. Had I seen it hunting alone and known it was hit in the jaw I would've killed it to put it out of its misery.

Can't say it was that guy but after seeing the pic that he put a head shot on 2 years before and claims his under 2 year old kid killed them I'd almost bet it was him. Especially after hearing the shot 2 days before.

I know bad shots happens. It happens to everyone at some point. But hate seeing multiples in the same year.

 

[TNRifleman]

We went ahead and killed the 6.5yo this weekend. He was sort of our mascot last few years, nearly every adult had passed him up a couple times. He was hit right where the scapula meets the humorous, and the joint, bone above and below were exploded.

The other bucks leg is broken at the knee. He has a good chance of surviving, so we probably won't kill him.

Just feel sick that we never had to deal with this problem until last year. I found a couple deer that made it back over the fence to my land and died last year, and now already have 2 cripples still alive that I know of this year.

This kind of stuff just pisses me off as a hunter. A pure reflection of the apathy and idiocy of our society these days.

 

[megalomaniac]

Sad to see him go. Similar story to another old warrior.

We had a blind buck that was our mascot 5 years ago that was hit by a car at 3.5 and survived his skull crushed in. 5 on one side and a spike on the injured side every year after the crash. We let him live out his life on the property and he finally disappeared at 8.5 years old.

 

[megalomaniac]

I know bad shots happens. It happens to everyone at some point. But hate seeing multiples in the same year.

Exactly... we aren't perfect. But we only take 99%age shots. As a consequence, we haven't lost a deer in 7 or 8 years.

But multiples over consecutive years is unethical.