One of the tracks from a few weeks back was for Super Tree Farms Guide Service in Union Springs. You can find them on Facebook if anyone is interested in checking them out or booking a hunt…. It was opening weekend of gun season to be exact. The buck we tracked was a high back shot that did the classic “hit the ground then get back up and run off”. We tracked it for a pretty good ways before calling it off after finding blood high up a some sedge grass that confirmed the high hit we suspected.
Well, Kent called me this morning and said… “You’re not gonna believe this……I was sitting in that same stand yesterday afternoon when I heard the craziest bunch of crashing around down the holler from me.” He said “ I thought it had to be two bucks fighting.” Well, this morning he went back to the same stand again and noticed some dogs coming from that same area where he heard the two bucks fighting the evening before and decided to just walk out in there and check it out. I guess what he had heard the evening before was not two bucks fighting but rather the buck he had shot trying to fight off a pack of dogs.
The buck had been seen on camera numerous times prior to being shot but hadn’t showed back up since. It makes me think he was staying bedded up and barely moving around within a small area. It makes sense when you think about it. The more an injured deer like that moves around, the more he exposes himself to predators…..just like the pack of dogs. He was found with his head locked in a group of saplings and had to be cut out. Somebody said earlier in this thread that they thought these types of wounds might eventually die of infection. This story makes me wonder though if nature ever lets it get to that point. The severe wound is likely making them a marked target for predators. It’s like blood in the water…..
This was sho nuff a crazy ending to this story. Shot opening weekend....recovered this morning.
