I have been looking at a nice roe buck all summer. He has a territory right around our house.

Two days ago he was hit by a car. He was lying on the road but stil alive, I was notified and got my rifle to but him out of his misery, but when I got there he had got up and into the woods.

The game department (Viltnemda) was already on their way and they had a tracking dog, (A dachs). We started tracking it but we lost the track. It was getting dark, the terrain around the area hi was hit is almost imposible to walk in. It is very step and also dens woods. There is also alot of roe tracks and little blood in the track.

Now all I can do is to look for the carrion birds

Johan

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Maybe the deer will make it and you can hunt for him this season. If not may be you can recover the horns [if legal]. It is a shame when a deer gets killed by a vehicle. Here in Texas vehicles kill quite a lot of deer. What a waste.

I can take the horns if I find them, but I didn't want the horns. Rost beef is more my style.

If he "made it" he still had a broken fot and probably some more serius injuries, because of the impact that were quite hard. The car was doing atleast 80km/h.

It's a bloody shame. Cars should be banned!

Johan

I think you should give it another try with a dog maybe something like a "vorsthe/strihar" not sure about the norweigan name. A dog you can let lose on the track.

If the terrain is that bad chances are the deer has just as big problem as you especially if he was hit that hard.

Don't give up.

Mike

A Vorster or an other longlegged dog is okay, if you can get one in short notise. Most tracking dogs here are dachs or moosehounds.

Problem is that there are both sheep, roe and red deer in the area. Lose dogs are illegal this time of the year and can do more damage then good.

The dachs has a great nose and is a dog used all year round for tracking. The dog can handle the terrain, but the people can't. You'd be supprised over how bad terrain a moraly wounded roe can pass.

Now it has gone three days already. The man from the game department do alot of tracking. He is called out on manny of the local car hits and also for wounded game during the hunting season. There will be hard to find a man and dog that does so much tracking of wounded game as he.
But I feel that if it hadn't got dark, we would have a chance.

Johan

I wouldn't lose hope quite yet. They can be extremely resilient and your buck may show up again.

I live and hunt in a thickly settled area that suffers from an overpopulation of both deer and cars. I have killed a lot of deer here and several that appeared healthy carried severe wounds. I shot one small buck that had a shattered and infected knee joint that wasn't apparent until he was down and being dressed. He was busy chasing does, though I doubt he could have actually mounted one.

I have noticed many deer with bad antlers on one side, with corresponding old injuries on the opposite side. If you get him this year, he'll probably still carry the same decent antlers, but if he survives through next year, he will probably be asymetrical, with poor development on the side opposite his wounds.

I've maneged to train my vorsthe not to hunt sheep so I do alot of roe hunting with it in the coastal region where we have the sheep and it's no problem (been to norway to). I have a dachs to but my first choise for tracking is the big dog. Sometimes I combine, let the dachs do the tracking til I know the animal is up and moving and then I let the vorsteh end it especially when it is very dense terrain.

But now with the pigs coming my way I have to look for something else but haven't decided on race yet.

Best of luck with the coming season.

Miko

Miko,

Any chance of a picture of your vorsthe?? i am never heard of this breed before, but i am very interested in any of the breeds that are being used in this way..

Regards,

Pete

Vorsther is what we call the german pointers.

Ofcourse he could have survived, but with a broken leg he will be in poor contition.

I have seen red deer with a broken leg. Not a pretty sight.

Johan

1894,

A few week ago a friend shot shot a buck which had been wounded in the front "elbow" with a 22rf by poachers. The buck had been seen around for a day or two limping and from the infection around the wound I would guess that it had been in that condition for perhaps 4 or 5 days.

As he was gralloching it in the larder, a couple of things seemed to be unusual...
a) the area around the wound and for some distance above it and below it was bare of hair and the deers digestive system seemed choked with it...I understand that they will like the hair while attempting to clean the wound, but I have never seen it done to such an extent that the digestive system was blocked..
b) The bladder was "solid"...it actually felt as if it was full of a hard material of some sort...when incised it was full of a chalky substance???

I am wondering if either of these conditions are "normal" for a wounded injured beast and do you think it would have survived??

Regards,

Pete

[ 08-04-2003, 14:06: Message edited by: Pete E ]