Just got back from deer hunting (warning - dead deer pics)

[jon_norstog]

Bill,

My brother says that load chronos over 2600 fps in his Mauser. The bullet should have either expanded or gone out the other side. It didn't hit any major bone. I didn't have time to look for the shell, what with dressing the animal and all. Is why I'm wondering if one of those old primers maybe didn't light up the powder as it should have.

Gunner's post made me think about things. Here, it's commonly accepted that you follow a wounded animal wherever it goes, and it's yours. There have been nasty incidents in which hunters shot and tried to claim an animal another hunter had wounded and was tracking.

Gunner, you should come over to this country and hunt. The dollar is down!

jn

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[TDH]

Bill,

My brother says that load chronos over 2600 fps in his Mauser. The bullet should have either expanded or gone out the other side. It didn't hit any major bone. I didn't have time to look for the shell, what with dressing the animal and all. Is why I'm wondering if one of those old primers maybe didn't light up the powder as it should have.

Gunner's post made me think about things. Here, it's commonly accepted that you follow a wounded animal wherever it goes, and it's yours. There have been nasty incidents in which hunters shot and tried to claim an animal another hunter had wounded and was tracking.

Gunner, you should come over to this country and hunt. The dollar is down!

jn

Jon it used to be in Ohio you had a legal and moral right to follow a wounded deer. It was common courtesy to ask the next land owner and explain the situation and it was generally a given permission was granted. Alas in the last 10 years or so things have changed. Now if the land is posted you stay out. You can ask permission of the next land owner and if they say no you have the option of contacting the local game warden and he may talk to the land owner. If permission is denied at that point you can not follow. I lost a nice doe last year to this situation. It got over the fence that had the sign:

DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT CROSSING THIS FENCE!

Now sometimes justice does prevail. A young fella of my aquaintance ran into this situation and the game warden went to the farmer and was told get off my property. The GW watched the downed deer the rest of the day and just before dark the farmer arrived with a tractor and got the deer. An hour later the farmer had a ticket for tagging a deer he did not shoot and lost the deer.