Wildlife is amazing

[gladesman60]

This buck was shot by a neighbor opening of gun. He has been roaming around my hill since then. Chasing does. scraping and rubbing trees all over the place. This morning I watched him battle a nice 8 point for over 10 minutes.
The bullet was a pass through, entrance was about 4 inches back from the exit under the spine. My friend that hunts on one side of me saw him probably the day of or day after he was shot. Deer would walk 15 or 20 steps and lay there panting for a bit then go another little bit and lay down again. I was going to put him down if I saw him but got a pic of him ,a week or so after he was shot , working this scrape. I have seen him 6 times from the stand and each time he is doing all the things bucks do. Only thing different is he constantly licks the wounds on both sides. He may still succumb to his injury but I hope not.

 

[redblood]

He will be just fine. Classic no man lands hit.

 

[Snake]

May have clipped an organ but the bleeding stopped so I think he'll make it . It's been a week so he's good !

 

[Carlos]

You're exactly right- amazing!

 

[killingtime 41]

That's a classic attempt at a high shoulder shot. He will be fine. Only problem with a high shoulder to high and that's what happens.

 

[JJ3]

He'll be fine. I shot one just slightly higher 4 years ago — a tall 140+ class 8 pt. He was on the ground for over 2 minutes upside down — I thought he was dead. Took my eyes off but glanced over and he wants getting up and disappeared into the hedgerow. We tracked him over 400 yards before blood disappeared.

He showed up on camera a month later, wound appeared healed with just a scar remaining, the last day of youth hunt in January and then was on camera until he dropped antlers in March. I was looking forward to seeing him in the fall, but we never saw him that season.

 

[BSK]

He'll be fine. I shot one just slightly higher 4 years ago — a tall 140+ class 8 pt. He was on the ground for over 2 minutes upside down — I thought he was dead. Took my eyes off but glanced over and he wants getting up and disappeared into the hedgerow. We tracked him over 400 yards before blood disappeared.

He showed up on camera a month later, wound appeared healed with just a scar remaining, the last day of youth hunt in January and then was on camera until he dropped antlers in March. I was looking forward to seeing him in the fall, but we never saw him that season.

Amazing how often this happens. I deer is shot and lost. That deer disappears from cameras so everyone assumes it is dead. Then about a month later the deer shows back up on camera with wound healing. We've had that happen twice.