Deer grave yards

[Brad]

My big buck I killed last year on Nov 3rd I am certain I bumped out of his bed one year earlier. Unfortunately it was a gut shot & I went back next day with a tracking dog. Even more unfortunate was that we bumped the buck out of a bed twice, still alive 24 hours after the shot. I found him 3 days after the shot right by one of the beds I found, which was maybe 40 yards from the bed I bumped him from the year before, & within 70 yards of the two beds I bumped him from the night after the shot. It was definitely either a place he felt safe or at least his familiar place that he didn't want to leave.

[Mat-Ch-155]

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This a poach buck my dad found on his property. He add .22 hole right in front of his left eye, suggesting that someone probably shined him and shot him with a small caliber at night.

He died in a dense fir thicket right by a transition line with a open maple stand.