Deer are tough, healing wound pics

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  1. bloodcrick

    bloodcrick Moderator/BHOD Prostaff

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    Pulled a card and was surprised to see this. Appears to be an archery injury and she is doing fine. looks to be from a tree stand also Nobody on my lease said anything about shooting and not finding a Doe. The property next to mine said they don't shoot many Does and it was none of them. There are other propertys close by it could have happened on. Any way no biggie I was just curious. So begs the question, what vitals/organs do you think got hit or not hit??
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    frenchbritt123 Grizzled Veteran

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    No way it goes in that high and exits where it did and a deer lives through it. I am saying someone hit her twice.
     
  3. CJCullen

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    If that's an entry and exit wound from the same shot and I took that shot I would have thought I smoked that deer. I'm sticking with frenchbritt123 on this one and say had to be from two separate incidents.
     
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    That's a 'ghost deer'... walkin' dead if those are entrance and exit holes.
     
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    i don't believe that is anykind of hunting related wound.
     
  6. grommel

    grommel Die Hard Bowhunter

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    Cool pics but they look like lethal hit.
     
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    I think it's two separate wounds as well. That doe has nine lives. Seriously though, it is amazing what whitetails can endure!
     
  8. bloodcrick

    bloodcrick Moderator/BHOD Prostaff

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    It looks like an entry and exit to me! Yeah it's blowing my mind to that's why I wanted opinions. If the lower was a second hit surely there would have been 2 holes on one side unless it was steep and came out between front legs. Regardless pretty wild!
     
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    SharpEyeSam Legendary Woodsman

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    Whitetails are resilient creatures!
     
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    I doubt it was an injury at all, sometimes they just lose patches of hair.
     
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    Could be, just odd where both are,one high one low by the arm pit!
     
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    that would be a dead deer no questions asked....
     
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    I think one is a graze wound from a miss and the other could have been from a fence or from hauling *** through some thick stuff, and got jabbed? Could be anything.
     
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    bloodcrick Moderator/BHOD Prostaff

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    The world may never know :moose:
     
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    almightynut Weekend Warrior

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    That's one of them thing we will probably never know for sure. I agree with you guys with most of the answers but you.just never know for sure unless you saw it happen
     
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    I do not think that is an exit hole at all. I think that is just a tuft of hair behind the leg. She has the same colorations on both sides in the same spot.
     
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    I don't think that there is an exit hole, just fur bunched up because if you look in the same spot on the opposite side you see the same thing. I think it was shot by a low poundage bow and they got maybe a inch ot two of penatration.
     
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    I agree with you, I basically said the same thing because I didn't look at the second page of comments. On my phone the pages are about half as long as my laptop.
     
  19. CoveyMaster

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    Yeah I hear ya. It's not a coincidence where they are. Summer coats are coming in and winter coats are shedding and getting itchy, the deer can actually reach those spots and are pulling that hair out on their own. They started that here three weeks ago. I've been getting pics of deer with the exact same areas missing. If you look close at the first pic of yours, that's not scar tissue or bare skin in that spot, it's summer colored hair that's short and smooth.
     
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    Just shedding its coat, give it another week and it will be missing even more.
     

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