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From: tas@sat.datapoint.com (Tom Stewart)
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Re: Bear/Deer Hunt Story (mostly true!)
Message-ID: <1991May18.084458.28916@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 18 May 91 13:44:58 GMT
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In article <1991May17.071508.22908@doug.cae.wisc.edu> icsg0007@cs.montana.edu writes:
>	Just Call Me "Lucky"
..
>It was a beautiful six foot boar with a chocolate brown coat with
>golden colored guard hairs on his back. But actually, the first thing
>that I noticed as I got close to him was a deep dent in his forehead.
..
>     ...After cleaning the
>skull I noticed that the bones, mostly the frontal bone, posterior to
>the orbit a few inches had been fractured into many pieces and had
>fused back together. Embedded in the bone were several small pieces of
>lead! Part of the mystery solved.
..
>______________________________________________________________________________
>Steve White	icsg0007@caesar.cs.montana.edu
>		stuck in Bozeman and it's great, when the waters clear.
>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >>>--------------------->

After reading this story, I wonder how many other animals are shot but
don't die.  I suspect a good many deer are killed each year that aren't
found by the hunter, but how many animals survive wounds like this?

If you have experience with similar old wounds in animals, why not share
them?

P.S.   The only old wound I've seen on an animal is one that was probably
the result of getting hit by a car, not from an actual hunting incident.
I imagine a good many animals survive collisions with cars, since I've
had a couple of hits myself where the deer jumps up and runs off.

---
Tom Stewart -- archmaster of irritation and useless information
		I am irritated!  ---- Lt. Worf ST:TNG