Got another doe today

[fasteddie]

I had cleared the driveway with the snowblower and was sitting on my butt relaxing . A friend of mine who doesn't hunt and won't let anyone hunt his property called me up . He had been out jogging for a training run and came across a bedded doe that could hardly get up . He said her leg was shattered and didn't want the yotes to start feeding on her and would I come over to put the deer down . I said i'd be there in 1/2 hour .

When I got there , I got out my shotgun and put a couple shells in it and we headed for the pines . The doe was still laying down but got up and tried to hobble away . One shot in the lungs and she was done . My friend went back and got his tractor with a bucket and hauled it to the barn after I field dressed the doe . It dawned on me afterward that the heart had turned to pulp with the blast .

When I got her home , I hung her in the garage and skinned it . The right leg was shattered but the left leg looked nasty and so did the left rear leg . I think the deer had been hit by a vehicle . There wasn't any bruising but it didn't look good .I had to throw away quite a bit but the backstraps looked fine and I got several packages of burger . She's in the freezer .

It wasn't really hunting but it's meat in the freezer !

My friend isn't a venison eater but said he'd try some burger . Maybe i'll make him some jerky as he cross country skis and he just might like that .

[Geno C]

good job Eddie, sounds like you did the right thing and you got some meat of of the deal. It was nice your buddy thought of you to do whats right.

[Bleitten04]

Sad story but great job.  Maybe he will let you hunt his property after all

[biggamefish]

  That is they way I would have looked at it.  It is good to see someone who doesn't really hunt or let hunters on his property relize the right thing to do.  He is a good guy for that.  Congrats on the extra meat in the freezer.

[Fantail]

I think you did the right thing too. Just wondering though could not a DEC officer give you a possesion tag for something like that so you could get a free tag so to say?

[fasteddie]

I think you did the right thing too. Just wondering though could not a DEC officer give you a possesion tag for something like that so you could get a free tag so to say?

I thought about that but the way the weather has been it didn't hurt me to burn up an 8H Tag . If I hunt Wayne County , i'll wait until ML season .

[First-light]

Good deal eddie, enjoy the meat.

[Slugger09]

same thing happened to me 2 days ago.  While hunting a small doe came limping/falling down the hill.  I watched her for a few min and the front left leg was broken with an open wound, not bleeding, above the leg.  I felt bad taking the shot on such a young deer but knew it wouldnt survive the winter/yotes.

[fasteddie]

Here is the doe I got at my friend's property