3 Leg Down

Had some excitement on the Friday night of deer season. I was sitting behind my sister's farm when I seen my brother in law coming back with the combine to take off some corn. As I was contemplating moving to a different area of the farm I get a text from BIL that just said 3 leg. I had heard earlier in the week that the guy that hunts the property behind had blew a leg off a big deer and while tracking it kept bumping him up. I got out of my stand as BIL was wheeling out to me in the combine as I didn't know if he was dead or got bumped up again. Apparently he was alert and thrashing around but unable to stand after lying in the corn for a couple days. Or so I thought. I walked into the corn, he was lying down facing me. I didn't want to shoot him in the face so I drilled him in the neck and chest from the front. This is where he decided to get up again, much to my dismay. He jumped to his feet and ran straight at me, passing me in the next row of corn to where I was standing as I just saw antlers go by my face. I had my BIL take a couple short strips of corn off and he was piled up 40 yards away. I'm 6'4" and 300lbs and I know I was still losing that game of chicken. Not the biggest bodied deer I have on camera, but a nice wide 8pt.
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Originally Posted by cantgetright

Had some excitement on the Friday night of deer season. I was sitting behind my sister's farm when I seen my brother in law coming back with the combine to take off some corn. As I was contemplating moving to a different area of the farm I get a text from BIL that just said 3 leg. I had heard earlier in the week that the guy that hunts the property behind had blew a leg off a big deer and while tracking it kept bumping him up. I got out of my stand as BIL was wheeling out to me in the combine as I didn't know if he was dead or got bumped up again. Apparently he was alert and thrashing around but unable to stand after lying in the corn for a couple days. Or so I thought. I walked into the corn, he was lying down facing me. I didn't want to shoot him in the face so I drilled him in the neck and chest from the front. This is where he decided to get up again, much to my dismay. He jumped to his feet and ran straight at me, passing me in the next row of corn to where I was standing as I just saw antlers go by my face. I had my BIL take a couple short strips of corn off and he was piled up 40 yards away. I'm 6'4" and 300lbs and I know I was still losing that game of chicken. Not the biggest bodied deer I have on camera, but a nice wide 8pt.
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https://i.postimg.cc/cLfkK9sC/IMAG0122.jpg

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Congrats! That's some nice headgear! I think he still had 4 legs if you know what I mean. Especially at this time of year lol.
I've seen my share of deer that just refuse to die. Especially bucks. It's crazy the amount of will and strength they have to live.

Congrats again! Dare I ask, (you can pm if you want to answer or dont. purely curious) What area do you hunt in?

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Good mass and nice brow tines, well done, especially since he was doomed to be coyote chow otherwise.

that is a really nice rack. missing a front leg barely slows them down, for the 1st day or 2. My dad got a 4pnt years ago that was shot day before by CO, he blow the front leg off. I tracked it for about a mile in foot of snow and couldn't believe the blood trail. I saw it swim a river, so dad and I went back next morning in a canoe, figuring I'd find it dead on the other side. I bumped it and it went back across the river again and dad shot it running back along the river in the bush a bit.

Congratulations, nice story and a really nice buck

You did everyone a favour on that one. Congratulations.

congrats on the nice buck and as Sam said he would have suffered in the long run