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<blockquote data-quote="ATH" data-source="post: 1698382" data-attributes="member: 1656"><p>When I was in high school and had not yet killed a buck...good number of does...my cousin and I were stillhunting 50 yards apart through a woods. Suddenly there I was with a bedded buck in front of me. Shotgun only zone I swung my Mossberg 500 to my shoulder and delivered a slug to the chest. The buck jumped to its feed, I sent a second, which went low as the deer was rising and broke a front leg. </p><p></p><p>I approached the deer and took in the full context. The area around the deer was flattened, it was clear it had been on the ground in a small area for a number of days, already injured by another hunter. Back leg was also broken. Wanting to save meat, I sent another slug through its neck. That just caused it to start breathing through the hole in its neck (to this day I hate neck shots). A slug to the head of a buck is an ugly thing so I took out my Buck knife and cut the throat.</p><p></p><p>In gutting and cleaning that deer, my knife cut and two slugs aside, that deer had been hit by 3 other slugs and 10 pellets of buckshot. Ended up having to throw out all the meat due to gangrene. Yet it had lived a good number of days. I always felt bad about that one, but at the same time was glad I happened across it to end the suffering.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ATH, post: 1698382, member: 1656"] When I was in high school and had not yet killed a buck...good number of does...my cousin and I were stillhunting 50 yards apart through a woods. Suddenly there I was with a bedded buck in front of me. Shotgun only zone I swung my Mossberg 500 to my shoulder and delivered a slug to the chest. The buck jumped to its feed, I sent a second, which went low as the deer was rising and broke a front leg. I approached the deer and took in the full context. The area around the deer was flattened, it was clear it had been on the ground in a small area for a number of days, already injured by another hunter. Back leg was also broken. Wanting to save meat, I sent another slug through its neck. That just caused it to start breathing through the hole in its neck (to this day I hate neck shots). A slug to the head of a buck is an ugly thing so I took out my Buck knife and cut the throat. In gutting and cleaning that deer, my knife cut and two slugs aside, that deer had been hit by 3 other slugs and 10 pellets of buckshot. Ended up having to throw out all the meat due to gangrene. Yet it had lived a good number of days. I always felt bad about that one, but at the same time was glad I happened across it to end the suffering. [/QUOTE]
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