He can’t eat it anyhow, he didn’t find the buck until 12 hours after he shot it. It wasn’t gutted or bled. The meat is useless.
"I took my time and put the arrow right behind the front shoulder," Heine said. "I'm glad it happened as fast as it did because I would've probably been too nervous to shoot if the buck came walking up to me."Heine displays the multiple-tined buck's impressive rack.
He knew right away it was a good shot from where the arrow hit the animal.
"I watched it run for about 75 yards and he took one huge leap into the cattails," Heine said.
He found his arrow about 10 yards from where he hit the buck and, because there was a minimal amount of blood on the ground, decided to wait until morning to pursue the animal.
I'd question the decision to wait till morning over what appears to be a kill shot, and temperatures weren't favorable, but the meat isn't necessariy useless, particularly if his wait till morning judgement was correct.
"I took my time and put the arrow right behind the front shoulder," Heine said. "I'm glad it happened as fast as it did because I would've probably been too nervous to shoot if the buck came walking up to me."Heine displays the multiple-tined buck's impressive rack.
He knew right away it was a good shot from where the arrow hit the animal.
"I watched it run for about 75 yards and he took one huge leap into the cattails," Heine said.
He found his arrow about 10 yards from where he hit the buck and, because there was a minimal amount of blood on the ground, decided to wait until morning to pursue the animal.
I'd question the decision to wait till morning over what appears to be a kill shot, and temperatures weren't favorable, but the meat isn't necessariy useless, particularly if his wait till morning judgement was correct.
I'll have to disagree with that. As a person who has killed about 35 bucks in my life and seen hundreds more killed by fellow hunters over the years I can tell you that if the weather was cold enough 12 hours will not make any difference and this buck will be great eating, as for the other fellow talking about age and being tough this is BS also. BTW, bleeding a buck is an old myth that dies hard. Deer don't bleed after they are dead, whether you cut their throat or not, their hearts aren't beating so they don't bleed. This deer was shot with an arrow, therefore he bled out as he was dying, arrows kill, for the most part, by causing massive bleeding.