Jaycee,
Sooo your saying on one hand white tailed deer are being wounded by 00 buckshot and you farmer friend is upset:
"I had a lengthy conversation yesterday with a fellow that does a lot of custom combining.
What he had to say was enough to get any one really pizzed off.
He has so far come across 7 dead deer and some remains of in corn fields that he is combining, 5 of those had broken legs he determined was caused by buck shot as he found evidence of buck shot wounds in the guts.
It really upsets him as he has to be very careful/watchful that he does not get them into the combine as it makes one big mess and down time involved, and costly repairs.
He also found a big 8 point buck tangled in a fence that it tried to jump but couldn,t due to a broken leg, it just struggled and died there from it,s wounds/broken leg,bleeding and starvation.
He claimed that as far as he could determine by what he saw , all these deer had been shot at with buck shot, he says he sees this every year after the controlled deer hunts .
This is very unfortunate as 7 unrecovered deer equals a possible seven others shot to make up for those , and there those are wondering why there is a lack of deer.
He said he expects to find more after this weeks hunt as there is a lot of corn still standing to be combined."
But in the same breath you believe firmly that 00 Buckshot is a reliable round when trying to finish off a 400lb wounded African lion.LOL
