deerhunter518

This is why Ethical hunters get ragged on by conservationists and everyone else for hunting. Just because people want to kill we have the chance to loose our hunting privledge

deernutz

I would say buck dropping it's horns. My uncle just found one following a blood trail in WI.

dohcrxl

I made a mistake in saying I thought it was a muscle hit. I meant to say lung because of the pattern of the "splatter." One splatter was sprayed to look exactly like a deer on the run with a lung wound. All the specs formed a funnel likepattern that was a foot long by 10 inches wide, heavy in the center and spraying outward. I really don't think a car or coyote could've done this although it is possible.

I don't know how much bucks bleed when they shed but I doubt they're spraying foot long patterns from the tops of their heads so it's unlikely from a shed imo.

There were noboot printsfollowing the deer's but I doubt the hunter wanted to drag a deer out of the woods nearly a month after the close of the season.

And finally, this is public land in a non DEZ unit. Besides, I don't think landowners can get a permit to hunt public land right?

I really think some either is still somewhere out there in those thousand acres or perhaps just popped it with a 22.

OhiobowHunter56

alittle thing i like to call a poacher!! .. or accidental wound of the deer in nature itself

wihunter402

dohcrxl,
You are correct, landowners can NOT hunt public land. I guess I was just hopeful that it was just that. Based on what you have saidI would have to agree that it is a poacher. Did you call the DNR? Keep us posted as to what you find out.

hillbilly17

Heck it may have been a hunter and you left him in the snow...

Is anyone in your area missing?

dohcrxl

Uhhh no, no one missing that made the news. It's likely not the case that I "left a hunter in the snow" because there were no boot prints, just deer tracks and blood.