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From: tmx@occrsh.att.com
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Re: Wounded Animals
Message-ID: <1991May22.071735.21029@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 22 May 91 12:17:34 GMT
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Reference: Tom Stewart's responce, was a "true" story of a buck
harvested by a hunter and the buck was using only 1/2 of its front
legs, to get around on.  Seeing as how they were missing from the knee
joint down.  Myself I would not doubt this.  Deer are very adept
animals.

  My story is as follows, and it also is a TRUE story, if I speak any
untruth may the great Hunting Gods, look down on me unfavorably!!

  There was a time back when I was first brought under the wing of an
old man who was a avid outdoorsman; Mainly because he worked in the
woods cutting posts for a living, as did the rest of his clan.  They
lived in the far S.E.  corner of Oklahoma, in our "MOUNTAINS" as we
know mountains.  They live off the land and wild life, being
right-wrong or indifferent.  This is how they have to live, and also
the majority of the rest of the people in that neck of the woods live.
There is NO means of income as we know it.  I am sure you know the
saying "poor as jobes turkey", believe my they were and still ARE!!
but only in the since of monitary items, they are rich in love and
life.

  Now the meat of the story, I was hunting White Tail with the old man
and his clan a few years ago, and I might add it WAS during season.
We were on a drive about 6 or 8 of us and we were pushing a buck.  We
knew it was buck because it was shot at by just about everyone in our
group, its not hard to miss where we hunt in Oklahoma due to
underbrush and overgrouth, where the buck was, was very thick.  Now as
it turned out that drive, the old man was the one who shot the buck.
Now the unbelieveable, I helped the old man hang the deer up to dress
'em out, I did the bleed thing with the throat, during the undressing
I noticed there was "NO" wound anywhere.  Upon further looking we
found on the buck's skull beside an antler was a grazed spot where a
bullet had creased his skull, and we believe this only knocked him
uncounceious!

  Could you understand what it would have been like, to have the buck
wake up while we were man handleing him around, or have him to wake up
just after we got him up in the tree by his back legs.

  Any way this is a "TRUE" Okie story, by yours truly:  "tmx"
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Harvest only what you can use and leave a little for seed !!
Keep your powder dry and don't let your meat loaf !!
                                             tmx@occrsh.ATT.COM  (Jim Bruner)
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