I had one missing a back leg make it several years here at my home property. It always amazed me that he was able to survive and not get caught because he was seriously immobilized with only one back leg. He had a really funny walk that looked like a struggle. There’s no way he could run fast enough to get away from dogs. He eventually never showed back up.

I think it we were able to look at the true numbers then the long term survivors would be a very small percentage of leg hits. There’s gotta be chit loads of leg shot deer across the state, probably something in the thousands….. but three-legged deer are pretty rare. Most of us are probably lucky if we ever see one. That would mean that most of them don’t make it. I bet a couple yotes would push a three-legged deer pretty hard if they got in behind it.