Oh the irony… …..After us talking about leg shots a tracker on the GA blood tracking page posted up a pic this morning of a 3 legged buck that is still alive a couple weeks later……This kinda proves my point though of something I’ve said before…… Hunters commonly send us pics of deer we track that show back up on camera. If any of these 3 legged deer actually made it then you can damn sure bet someone is going to post his picture up saying…..”Hey look everybody!!...A three-legged deer!!”……He might as well be an albino….You’re gonna hear about it

Therefore, it makes it pretty easy to calculate the approximate survival rate of these deer. We know that leg shots are one of the most common calls during gun season for all trackers….. With 300,000 deer being shot annually in Alabama the total number of leg shots occurring is going to be pretty high……likely being more than a thousand or even several thousand statewide……It gets brutal with folks shooting at them during the rut….Out of all those hundreds or thousands here’s ONE picture someone has and its not even in Alabama……This is where someone can take that ONE rare picture that someone gets on occasion and distort the reality of it by saying “Hey look see they can make it!”…..or you can step back and look at the bigger picture and have some perspective on what’s actually occurring……It took thousands of leg shots to produce that ONE survivor…..This is really a non-issue but folks always gonna find something to bitch about and its an easy “cause” for those folks to cling to.