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Re: Recovering Deer
[Re: Standbanger]
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12/02/22 10:35 PM
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Easiest with a bow was about 3 feet, straight down. It went down like I'd hit him in the head with a hammer. Drove my truck right to him. The shot was straight down and it spined him.
Honorable mention for easy/bow was the first deer that I killed with a bow. I had gave up on the blood trail and was going to go back to camp and get tracking help. When I approached my four wheeler, my little 6 pointer was literally laying half a step from the back rack.
Toughest with a bow was a 170 lb 7 pointer across the same creek twice, 3-4 hundred yards mostly through a cutover that you had to almost climb through and then a 200 yd. drag uphill. Most of the drag was through the same cut.
I've had a blue million of them drop in their tracks from a rifle shot and a good many that I could drive right up to.
Toughest with a rifle wasn't tough to find but tough to get back to the truck. Several years ago I was on a hunt hunt alone at Choccolocca WMA. All my buddies and my son had to work but I had taken a vacation day to hunt the rut. About 7:20 I shot a buck trailing a doe and a few minutes later a buck chased another (or the same) doe by me and I dropped her too. Only then did I remember that I was about 3/4 miles behind the gate. I had a buck, a doe, a climber, my pack and a ton of clothes to get out. I had them both field dressed by about 8:00am or shortly after and when I got everything loaded in the truck it was well after 3:00pm. I slept real good that night.
My and a friend spent 5-1/2 hours dragging his huge bodied 7 pointer out at Skyline that had dropped off several benches before expiring.
I had killed a 9 not far from there several years before that only had to be dragged about a hundred and fifty yards. Unfortunately it was about 180 feet elevation change. I would climb up a step while my buddy held the deer from sliding back. I'd grab a tree to hold to while we pulled the deer up a couple feet. Then he'd do the same, wash, rinse, repeat. We were much younger then and it still took well over an hour, maybe close to two.
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