road hunters??

[Green Arrow]

Just thought i'd share this story from yesterdays hunt, sorry no pics.  went over to my buddy's farm for a late afternoon hunt.  it is about 300 acres and boarders by 300 acre farms on all sides and there are only two of us that have permission to hunt it, (read: honeyhole)  and i've only been able to get over there twice this year, (read: two kids pregnant wife busy job etc...)  so....yesterday i creap into the deer woods and on my way to my spot i find a BEAUTIFUL eight pointer dead as a doornail without a mark on him!  such a shame.  wish i had my camera, this was a gorgeous VA whitetail, healthy beautiful buck.  they have had a lot of trouble over the years with folks spot-lighting from the road etc... and that is all we can figure.  low caliber weapon maybe?  22?  no blood, no visible holes, nothing.  just huge dead buck in the woods.  no sign of run in with a car either.   so....we took him back to the barn where the farmer will cut him up and feed him to the working dogs, probably figure out the mystery once his hide comes off, and maybe i'll get some pics.  i just knew i'd be draggin' deer out of the wood yesterday i just hoped it would have a little something to do with my great northern and a cedar shaft  

if it was the road hunter, shame on em, makes me mad as a hornet.

enjoy the day,
Kyle

[Killdeer]

Road poachers, not hunters.

Killdeer   :(

[paleFace]

Killie I think you have it correct, they are def. not hunters.... I just don't see the pleasure. What part of Va. you in Kyle? I'm in the Northern Neck for the time being.

[Widowbender]

Originally posted by Killdeer:
Road poachers, not hunters.

Killdeer    :(  

I wish folks would quit calling 'em hunters...
If it was shot, its gonna have a bullet hole in it somewhere...I've seen dead deer that were hit by cars without a scratch on em, but were busted up on the inside...To me a poacher is no different than a thief...

David

[A.S.]

Kyle let us know what you find out. It may be worth it to see if he knows anyone hunting the neighbor properties. Maybe, just maybe someone shot it yesterday morning and it just got away from them.

[bentpole]

Talk about Hornet. Check behind the ear or head real good. 22 hornet or 22 mag is a poachers dream round.

[reddogge]

My guess is a roadkill.  Check for internal damage when you dress it.

[Green Arrow]

that's what i thought too neighbor, someone shot it and it wandered that far.  i'll be pretty amazed if it was shot, no blood, no holes.  of course it rained alot yesterday and the holes could have closed up.  i might be puttin' my money on road kill too.  i'll let ya'll know when we open him up.

paleface, the farm is in albemarle county.

and you all are right....road poachers.  they have had tons of trouble over there over the years.  the farm is on a dead end road and surround by other farms, tons of deer, and often some really nice bucks.

would it be wrong to take a picture of me with the buck and claim it as my own?     kidding, only kidding!

have a good night,
Kyle

[J-dog]

Imagine he got hit by a car and made his way into the woods.

[Bill Skinner]

Can deer get West Nile?  Bill

[Bakes168]

I would say either a car or maybe it got sick, like Bill said.

Bakes

[BOFF]

Was it near water?

[Tom Leemans]

Yes, I spent a couple days in SE Iowa over the weekend, while I was waiting for the road to my spot here in IL to dry up. Had fun taking pictures of deer cruising through the woods Friday afternoon.

Anyway, we're coming back from breakfast on Saturday and I see a big deer's body in the back corner of a bean field, so I tell my buddy to stop the truck and I hike over to check it out. No wound on the side facing up, and I didn't bother to flip him over, but I assumed he would have a small hole on the other side. Either that, or he was shot in the head. Big mature body. He was missing his head. He had just been shot the night before too. &%$#@^*%&%~ poachers!     :mad:

I might add that a few nights before that, my buddy saw someone driving the road across the valley, spotlighting the fields. He hit them with a spotlight from his front porch. They shut their light off and hightailed it out of there.

[swampbuck]

MMMMMMMMMM I thought you were talkin of hunting near the rd LOL I've got a hotspot thats 10 steps off the rd and 20yrds from the deer Xing sign.There's a house about 100yrds away and is too close for guns,nobody can shoot that way because of the house and the rd and once the deer get across the rd it's a state park....no hunting.

could be rd hit poached or even fataly wounded from another buck,I'd like to think there's more good out there and he died from legal mean's