I had not been able to get back to my lease since the opener till this past weekend and this is what I found...
Talk about a nasty mess.
I have removed goats and other deer from fences/pens before but this was a gray creamy smelly mess that beat all. I have a strong stomach and do not gag but this dude made me and my buddy gag... twice!.. when the smell hit our nostrils.. The video would have been priceless.
Anyway, I went through my pics quickly and told everybody I did not have pics of him passing through....but after going through again last night I had some dark pics I lightened and sure enough it was him on 10/11. He seems hunched over with his mouth open in both pics. I don't see any wounds on this side, nor do I see any dripping blood or stomach matter on his belly that you would think might be visible. Unfortunately he also laid with this side up and the backside is no more so we'll never know if he was shot unless the neighbors say they are missing one. Buzzards appeared on 10/13 so he must have laid up at the water and died. I am 150 yards from the neighbor's fence with a wall of mesquites, oaks and cedar between us. In the pics, he would have been coming from the direction of the fence line but I have no proof that he actually did. We put a call into the neighbor and he was going to ask his hunters. Nobody has claimed it as of yet.
Here is an earlier pic. I think he was 6.5 years old and it looks like he had lost some weight so I guess he could have gotten sick as well or got his arse whipped by another deer. It was a bummer because he would have made a nice management deer for one of the kids or a nice sausage deer. Just a weird disappointing deal all the way around.
Talk about a nasty mess. I have removed goats and other deer from fences/pens before but this was a gray creamy smelly mess that beat all. I have a strong stomach and do not gag but this dude made me and my buddy gag... twice!.. when the smell hit our nostrils.. The video would have been priceless.Anyway, I went through my pics quickly and told everybody I did not have pics of him passing through....but after going through again last night I had some dark pics I lightened and sure enough it was him on 10/11. He seems hunched over with his mouth open in both pics. I don't see any wounds on this side, nor do I see any dripping blood or stomach matter on his belly that you would think might be visible. Unfortunately he also laid with this side up and the backside is no more so we'll never know if he was shot unless the neighbors say they are missing one. Buzzards appeared on 10/13 so he must have laid up at the water and died. I am 150 yards from the neighbor's fence with a wall of mesquites, oaks and cedar between us. In the pics, he would have been coming from the direction of the fence line but I have no proof that he actually did. We put a call into the neighbor and he was going to ask his hunters. Nobody has claimed it as of yet.
Here is an earlier pic. I think he was 6.5 years old and it looks like he had lost some weight so I guess he could have gotten sick as well or got his arse whipped by another deer. It was a bummer because he would have made a nice management deer for one of the kids or a nice sausage deer. Just a weird disappointing deal all the way around.
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