I don’t have the link, but an Arkansas newspaper article reported a 66 year old man was dead after receiving puncture wounds from a buck he had shot with a muzzleloader.

The injured man was able to contact family members and was transported to a hospital where he later died.

BH63

Here's the link
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/24...eath-trnd/index.html

Condolences to the family and friends.

Thanks.

BH63

"it's the dead ones that get up and kill you !!!"

I could never understand the practice of approaching downed game unarmed. You owe it to the animal to finish it as quickly as possible if you arrive at the "kill" and they're still alive............and then there's the possibility of it jumping up and taking off/attacking.

Sure check the downed animal, ensure that it is dead and then clear your firearm and put it out of the way ........... but walk up unarmed ????.........naaah.

In my younger days I have been known to grab a still kicking deer by an antler and stick it with my hunting knife.

I worked on the kill floor of a packing plant and it was routine to stick hogs and cattle while they were very much alive.

BH63

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Originally posted by twobobbwana:
"it's the dead ones that get up and kill you !!!"

I could never understand the practice of approaching downed game unarmed. You owe it to the animal to finish it as quickly as possible if you arrive at the "kill" and they're still alive............and then there's the possibility of it jumping up and taking off/attacking.

Sure check the downed animal, ensure that it is dead and then clear your firearm and put it out of the way ........... but walk up unarmed ????.........naaah.

Agreed. I have had a couple make a run for it after I thought they were done for.

Grizz

Dad shot a bull elk in the spine, it drug it's hind end charging him. Amazing how fast he covered ground dragging his ass end. I was 300 yards away, Dad finished it off from about 75 feet. Shook him up quite a bit.

I shot a cow elk and was walking up to it's head with my pistol out as I didn't want to blow it up with the rifle. About ten feet away I slipped on snow covered rocks and looked down to see what I was walking on. Heard a noise and looked up to see she was pawing hard with front feet trying to get to me. No way she could get up. I blasted her head apart instantly.

Had a fireman hunting with me one evening and he shot a bull just before dark. I was coming down the hill 50 yards away to help him when he rolled up his sleeves and leaned his rifle against a tree. About that time the bull slung his head around and hit Franks thigh about the bottom of the pocket. Ripped it wide open 3" deep. I finished the bull from where I was with an '06.

Hell of an ordeal as we were on foot 8 miles from the ranch house. Only tape we had was some black electrical tape I had a spare flashlite bulb wrapped in. Got the bleeding stopped, fire built, bull dressed out. Then I headed to the ranch. Got a spare horse and three guys to help. Much of the night getting him down then driven 50 miles to a dr to sew it up. Sure could have ended up dead real easy. IT takes awhile to walk 8 miles in the dark, get help, catch horses then ride that 8 miles back again and get out. That's 32-34 miles just to get him to the truck and headed to town on a winding dirt country road. Plus 3-4 in the morning to round up a doc.

Wounded game is nothing to mess with. Make sure they're dead before you get within 10-20 feet of them. Mighty good reason to wear a big iron.

George