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Category: Native Animal
I noticed this broadhead scar on the right hip of this young buck. I don't allow bowhunting in my property and since it is all free range, no telling where he came from. I have seen too many deer with scars like this. I don't let a bowhunter walk in my property. I am sure the bowhunter who took this shot will tell you he never makes a$$ shots. You draw your own conclusions. If you check my photos you will see the doe picture I got last year with an arrow scar on her right shoulder taken around this time last year. I year round bowhunted for 6 years with a group who, according to them, supposedly placed real high at the Cabela's 3-D invitational in Tulsa OK. Even they lost more deer than what they found. That turned me off bowhunting completely, and vowed that if I ever owned property, I would ban bows and arrows. Bows and arrows are banned from my property. A person can enter my property in search of a wounded animal, but they better ask for permission and they shouldn't make the mistake of coming in with a shooting weapon.
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Not to be rude, but it is ignorant to assume that all bow hunters are irresponsible enough to take shots that they are not capable of. I myself have only bow hunted for 3 seasons but I have learned enough in that time to know my limitations and not risk wounding an animal. I have recovered all 5 deer that I have drawn on, as well as passed up on several high quality bucks because they were out of my range or were an awkward shot, that a more experienced person could have made. I’m not asking you to let bow hunters on your property, but to realize that many people who shoot conventional rifles also loose deer. I have seen and heard stories of people losing deer after shooting with a rifle.
You have your opinion as I do. I don't think all bowhunters are not irresponsible, I do think that a bow does not have the knock down power a rifle does. I am sure I am stirring up a big controversy here, but I can only go by my experience. I have seen it too many times from different people who think that just because they have a trophy hunters decal, they can do anything. I stand by my comments and I can prove them to anyone. If you have "recovered" all the deer you have shot with a bow, you are in the few. I would like for those who are honest enough to admit how many deer they have lost. I have guided many places and seen what people who don't know how to handle a gun also make bad shots on deer and justify it by blaming it on their gun, scope, etc. I bow hunted for 6 years and saw many animals lost, not because people took a bad shot, but the tenacity of the deer to want to survive. The last one was in 1996 when this person took a shot of a trophy deer, had a very good blood trail until it dwindled to specks the size of a pin. The blood trail told all the story, the deer was lethally shot, but his will to live took him to who knows where. Of course you (not knowing anything about me) can conclude that I am a bad tracker, don't know what I am talking about, don't have over 40 years experience in hunting or tracking (I am 61 years old). Yet when these same people meet me in person, they want to know why I don't give up on the wounded animals. You my friend are the ignorant to assume what you don't know about a person.