the owner should have allowed him to put the animal out of its pain. that kind of thing makes you appreciate life 1 day at a time. also makes me want to dedicate time to become as best as i can be with my bow so when i send my arrow down range i know the suffer will be short, and in a sense, makes me want to choose a different method to take these beautiful animals. good video, bitter sweet at the same time
Tough to see but a part of life. I remember a blind doe that a group of us felt sorry for. We ran across her the last couple weeks of bow season back in my high school days. Looked like someone shot her in the face with a shotgun. She was blind as a bat. We got permission to kill her. The landowner laughed and told us good luck... we would need it. We thought it would be a piece of cake. We spent an afternoon trying to get within bow range of her. She might have been blind but every other sense seemed to be working over time. Closest we could get was 60 -70 yards from her. She out smarted 6 of us. We tried on and off for the rest of the season to put her down. We finally gave up. We figured with that much will to live she deserved to live. We watched her all winter. That summer she had twins and raised them without a problem. She was fat and healthy. The fawns were fat and healthy. The next fall ( October ) after we figured the fawns were big enough to fend for themselves, we tried again. We got schooled again. We were pleased to see she survived rifle season. We never tried to kill her after that. There was only so much humility we were willing to put ourselves through with bow. She might have been blind but dying from a mercy killing wasn't in her plans. Tim
Where is the thumbs up button for this post? Awesome story sir, thanks for sharing. "we got schooled again." Lol priceless
Cool story. It is hard to fault the landowner, though. Hopefully he followed through with getting out there.
