this one likely lived on w/ no issues. Surprised she didn't pull that out with her teeth. The OPs, not so sure. I'm on the "infection will get her come the warm weather" train. Either that and/or flies will lay eggs in it and the maggots will prob kill her.
I wonder if you could contact your local game warden and obtain a permit to hunt her specifically to ensure she doesn't have to endure anymore suffering. I know crap like that happens to everyone once in a while, and it doesn't necessarily mean that the hunter was unprepared or inexperienced, but she should be taken out as soon as possible in my opinion.
oops, I posted that before I saw bootleggers post. Get in contact with him and see what yall can do, if anything
I had a doe a couple seasons ago with a wound like that. As of last season she was still around and doing well. She actually had fawns again last year. Because she survived she has become a pet and is off limits to a arrow or bullet. She is easily picked out of the crowd by the piece of carbon arrow poking out high where the neck meets the chest just ahead of the shoulder. There was a time when she got skinny and there was a lot of puss around the arrow. But these animals are very tough.
That is anything but "doing fine"...obviously infected and as temps warm up and bacteria growth with it, this doe may die a very slow and brutal death due to that injury. Been better off if the thing wasn't still stuck in her...gonna keep re-opening and probably never close up and allowed to heal. I agree with Tacklebox on the sharing publicly thing.
Here is the buck I shot back in 2009. The wound was completely healed and he was doing fine.I was cutting the back strap off along the spine and hit something with my knife and it was an arrow
The reason I don't use mechanicals. Im talking about the buck with the arrow not the pic from the OP. If the deer from the OP was on my land I would shoot it. Sometimes its best to practice the three S's. Shoot, Shovel, Shut up.
