Deer are Tough (13 Photos)

[Saskman]

As some of you may know I tagged out on my 2010 whitetail a week or so ago. When I took the deer to the meat cutter he phoned me and said he had found a broadhead in the deer. He said that it looked like it had been in there for a while as it was all healed over and bone had grown around it. I had seen this deer several times this year and once last winter and even picked up one shed off of him. Not once did he ever look like he had any kind of injury. The meat cutter saved the shoulder blade for me and I boiled it out to get some photos of the broadhead. The broadhead had hit in probably the worst part of the shoulder possible. An inch either way and the deer would likely have been dead. Very unlucky for whoever shot him but lucky for me. Here are some photos of the deer and the shoulder blade.

on this side it looks like the tip had just penetrated and some bone healed around it.

Some close ups

 

[B_BOP_A_LU_LU]

Poor Bastard suffered a day or two in his day!


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[BuckSnort]

Great buck Cam... Cool pics and story too...Your right deer can be tough..

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[two7D]

Really nice buck! It's amazing how tough those critters are. Cool photos of the shoulder blade.

 

[Deuce]

Wow! That shoulder blade is a trophy by it's self. Nice buck.

 

[zekers]

That's pretty cool Sask. I bet that stove him up for a couple days.

 

[REDDOG]

I've killed an elk and two deer with broadheads still in them..last year a friend killed a pronghorn with half the arrow still in him.

 

[treedagain]

yep that is one TOUCH deer

 

[justr_86]

I'll bet whoevers broadhead that is is still haunted by not getting him! Great buck, very cool story to go with it!

 

[ironhead]

Couldn't have hit that shoulder more dead center, amazing animals.

 

[fatrooster]

Great buck and great story. Thanks for sharing. fatrooster.

 

[Zigga]

Cool story and pics. Maybe that deer was a 2-point when he got hit. Who knows. I've taken multiple animals with broadheads in them but this was really cool.

 

[elk_horn]

Great buck and a tough one at that! Congrats

 

[Verticalslope]

Excellent pictures! Thanks for sharing. Just goes to show you that what you believe might be a good hit may turn out not to be.

 

[Roy]

Well that answers a lot of the questions that have been on here this year about lost deer (archery, muzzleloader, or rifle) - especially when the hunter isn't sure about his shot accuracy. Sometimes, it is just not fatal and you just can't track them down. Though I would still venture to say there most misses like this do end up being fatal and either the hunter doesn't try hard enough to recover the animal, is incompetent, or blatantly leaves it because of ground shrinkage.

Cool pics Cam!
UTROY
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