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LAST EDITED ON Dec-08-05 AT 07:24AM (MST)[p]SEASONS GREETINGS, EVERYONE....YA RIGHT!
MERRY CHRISTMAS....AND GOD BLESS!

MY SON TOOK AN OLD MULEY THIS YEAR, 28" SPREAD BUT ONLY 4X2 WITH 3 BROW TINES ON EACH SIDE AND 9" BASES...YA HEAVY!
DEFINATELY REGRESSING AND OLD!
MY QUESTION IS...WE HAD TO TRACK HIM 5-1/2 MILES DUE TO A POORLY PLACED SHOT (REAR LEG), WHEN WE FINALLY GOT HIM HE HAD SOME GREEN CRAP THAT HAD COME FROM HIS TEAR DUCTS. WAS THIS FROM JUST TRACKING AND POSSIBLY PUSHING HIM HARD AT TIMES OR SOME TYPE OF INFECTION? HE WAS VERY HEALTHY AND BIG BODY WISE, JUST OLD. HE DID NOT LOOK AT ALL LIKE THE DEER ON THE OTHER POST WITH EYE DISEASE.

NVHUNTERER
 
Contact the fish and game department. They should have info for ya. Cook it till it's black. You should be ok :D

No really, check before you eat it


'It's all about the gut pile'
 
The buck your son took sounds a bit like the buck I took last year. He was a 5x7, 26" wide buck with 3 brow tines on one side and 8" bases. Like you, we guessed he must have been a regressing buck.
When you said you had to track him, this year I shot a 30" buck and tracked him for 6 hours unitl the blood trail ran out. Unfortunately we never found him and it makes me sick to my stomach. The only thing good relating to hunting for me is that I finally got my mount back from last year. I just posted a thread with pictures. I sure would like to see your son's buck!
 
WORKING ON PICS, MY HOME COMPUTER HAS SOME MALWARE INFARCTION, SO I HAVE NO INTERNET TIL I FIX IT. I DO HAVE E-MAIL SO I COULD E-MAIL THEM TO SOMEONE TO POST. NEED TO KNOW HOW TO REDUCE PIC FILE SIZE FOR E-MAIL & POSTING???

AS FOR LEAD POISONING, I DONT KNOW??? ONLY KNOW OF THE LEAD MY SON PUT IN HIM, AND THAT WAS JUST BARELY, HE SHOT HIM IN THE BACK LEG AND WE WERE ABLE TO TRACK HIM WITH A VERY LITE BLOOD TRAIL AND THEN A TELL TALE DRAG MARK FROM HIS HIND LEG...5-1/2 MILES AND 4HRS LATER HE FINALLY BROKE THE LEG AND SEVERED THE MAIN ARTERY AND BLED OUT 60YDS LATER. WE ALMOST GAVE UP, WE LOST THE TRACK SEVERAL TIMES AND HAD TO FAN OUT AND CRAWL THROUGH ROCKS JUST TO FIND A SINGLE DROP OF BLOOD TO KEEP ON TRAIL, THEN MY 12YR OLD DAUGHTER WANTED TO REST, AS SHE SAT DOWN I HEARD HER YELL BLOOD!! SHE FOUND A POOL OF BLOOD AND A BONE SHARD, IT WAS EASY FROM THERE.

NVHUNTERER
 
LAST EDITED ON Dec-08-05 AT 02:38PM (MST)[p]>WORKING ON PICS, MY HOME COMPUTER
>HAS SOME MALWARE INFARCTION, SO
>I HAVE NO INTERNET TIL
>I FIX IT. I DO
>HAVE E-MAIL SO I COULD
>E-MAIL THEM TO SOMEONE TO
>POST. NEED TO KNOW HOW
>TO REDUCE PIC FILE SIZE
>FOR E-MAIL & POSTING???
>
>AS FOR LEAD POISONING, I DONT
>KNOW??? ONLY KNOW OF THE
>LEAD MY SON PUT IN
>HIM, AND THAT WAS JUST
>BARELY, HE SHOT HIM IN
>THE BACK LEG AND WE
>WERE ABLE TO TRACK HIM
>WITH A VERY LITE BLOOD
>TRAIL AND THEN A TELL
>TALE DRAG MARK FROM HIS
>HIND LEG...5-1/2 MILES AND 4HRS
>LATER HE FINALLY BROKE THE
>LEG AND SEVERED THE MAIN
>ARTERY AND BLED OUT 60YDS
>LATER. WE ALMOST GAVE UP,
>WE LOST THE TRACK SEVERAL
>TIMES AND HAD TO FAN
>OUT AND CRAWL THROUGH ROCKS
>JUST TO FIND A SINGLE
>DROP OF BLOOD TO KEEP
>ON TRAIL, THEN MY 12YR
>OLD DAUGHTER WANTED TO REST,
>AS SHE SAT DOWN I
>HEARD HER YELL BLOOD!! SHE
>FOUND A POOL OF BLOOD
>AND A BONE SHARD, IT
>WAS EASY FROM THERE.
>
>NVHUNTERER

Send me the pictures and I can reduce and post them for you. We must live in two parallel dimensions ofr something because like you, we were on our hands and knees searching for drops of blood. I never could figure out where I hit the buck, there were drag marks once in a while but never consistent. There were 3 good sized clots but I'm not sure what that tells me. I know for sure that it was not a lung or gut shot, but that is about it. You can send the pictures to [email protected]
 
sounds like he may have had an infection of some kind. My dad shot a buck a couple of years ago that had green puss coming out around his ear. Apparently he had gotten gored during the rut. When we caped out the head it was a mess, yuck.
 
SLAM,
WAS THE MEAT STILL GOOD?? I JUST ATE SOME RIB STEAKS FOR LUNCH, THEY WERE GREAT, NOT TOUGH AT ALL AND EXCELLENT FLAVOR. AND I'M STILL ALIVE MUST BE O.K.!!!!
NVHUNTERER
 
SEDLEY,
WILL E-MAIL PICS WHEN I CAN, THANKS
THEN I WILL ADD STORY TO POST.

PAUL
NVHUNTERER
 

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