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I feel so awful - I am contemplating giving up hunting
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11/23/15 06:29 AM
11/23/15 06:29 AM
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Took a doe for meat at first light on opening day and just as I squeezed the trigger, she took a weird turn and I gut shot her by accident. Good blood where she went down initially but none anywhere else. She made it to the swamp and it took me three hours to find her. When I did she was partially eaten and completely covered in huge black flies and maggots.
I field dressed her and washed and washed her in the creek but to no avail. I had to leave her.
I am just so sick and so sorry I treated any animal like that.
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. Anne Frank
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Re: I feel so awful - I am contemplating giving up hunting
[Re: Geno]
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11/23/15 06:31 AM
11/23/15 06:31 AM
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Took a doe for meat at first light on opening day and just as I squeezed the trigger, she took a weird turn and I gut shot her by accident. Good blood where she went down initially but none anywhere else. She made it to the swamp and it took me three hours to find her. When I did she was partially eaten and completely covered in huge black flies and maggots.
I field dressed her and washed and washed her in the creek but to no avail. I had to leave her.
I am just so sick and so sorry I treated any animal like that. Damn are you sure it was the same deer? Three hours isn't very long and it wasn't that warm
We will burn that bridge when we get there
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Re: I feel so awful - I am contemplating giving up hunting
[Re: Geno]
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11/23/15 06:34 AM
11/23/15 06:34 AM
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That's what my wife said - I had mosquitoes on me before daylight. I would have never believed it if I hadn't seen it. That swamp is really full of bugs.
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. Anne Frank
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Re: I feel so awful - I am contemplating giving up hunting
[Re: Geno]
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11/23/15 06:35 AM
11/23/15 06:35 AM
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Beadlescomb
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Can maggots even hatch that fast?
We will burn that bridge when we get there
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Re: I feel so awful - I am contemplating giving up hunting
[Re: Geno]
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11/23/15 06:37 AM
11/23/15 06:37 AM
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While that seems to be on the far side of the spectrum, chit happens.
Go kill another one. You didn't mean to do it. The end you gave her probably wasn't that different from the one Mother Nature would have handed her anyway.
Carrying a gun isn't comfortable; but at times it is comforting
"Cause the cause for the pause you think you see is really concentration on the steel” NonPoint
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Re: I feel so awful - I am contemplating giving up hunting
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11/23/15 06:37 AM
11/23/15 06:37 AM
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Can maggots even hatch that fast? No. 2-3 days.
Never Trust Government
"You can be broke but you cant be poor." Ruthie-May Webster
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Re: I feel so awful - I am contemplating giving up hunting
[Re: Geno]
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11/23/15 06:38 AM
11/23/15 06:38 AM
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Look it sucks but is unfortunately part of it. You shoot enough of them you are going to lose one eventually.
We try everything in our power to avoid it, but sometimes it happens.
"Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters."
-- Archibald Rutledge
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Re: I feel so awful - I am contemplating giving up hunting
[Re: Geno]
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11/23/15 06:38 AM
11/23/15 06:38 AM
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Buddy I think you found someone else's deer
We will burn that bridge when we get there
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Re: I feel so awful - I am contemplating giving up hunting
[Re: Geno]
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11/23/15 06:39 AM
11/23/15 06:39 AM
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Dang hate that. Get up in the saddle again screw ups happen.
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: I feel so awful - I am contemplating giving up hunting
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11/23/15 06:41 AM
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Buddy I think you found someone else's deer This.
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Re: I feel so awful - I am contemplating giving up hunting
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11/23/15 06:43 AM
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Re: I feel so awful - I am contemplating giving up hunting
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11/23/15 06:44 AM
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" The flesh fly is found near carrion, excrement, and decaying organic matter. It has a characteristic checkerboard pattern to the abdomen and has 3 dark stripes on the thorax. These flies can get quite large. Instead of laying eggs, flesh flies give birth to live maggots, which are either deposited or dropped mid-air. I was once standing in a motel room in Costa Rica and a flesh fly deposited a larva on my arm. Within less than a minute the larvae began to attempt to bore into my skin."
Quoted from entomology expert witness site.
Last edited by Geno; 11/23/15 06:50 AM.
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. Anne Frank
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Re: I feel so awful - I am contemplating giving up hunting
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11/23/15 06:46 AM
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The flesh fly is found near carrion, excrement, and decaying organic matter. It has a characteristic checkerboard pattern to the abdomen and has 3 dark stripes on the thorax. These flies can get quite large. Instead of laying eggs, flesh flies give birth to live maggots, which are either deposited or dropped mid-air. I was once standing in a motel room in Costa Rica and a flesh fly deposited a larva on my arm. Within less than a minute the larvae began to attempt to bore into my skin. That's it! I'm staying the hell out of Costa Rica!
Proud Army and ALNG veteran God Bless America!
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Re: I feel so awful - I am contemplating giving up hunting
[Re: Geno]
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11/23/15 06:48 AM
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There were no other hunters around and no one shot anywhere around me. It was my deer, I am completely certain of it.
I've killed dozens of deer and helped recover hundreds in my 48 years and am very experienced. I was just about to go get the neighbors dog to recover her when I finally found her.
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. Anne Frank
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Re: I feel so awful - I am contemplating giving up hunting
[Re: Geno]
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11/23/15 06:48 AM
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I was once standing in a motel room in Costa Rica and a flesh fly deposited a larva on my arm. Within less than a minute the larvae began to attempt to bore into my skin.
I think I'd give up Costa Rica, not hunting!
Last edited by 3FFarms; 11/23/15 06:49 AM. Reason: Leroy beat me to it!
Ya'll are just overthinking it now
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