The other evening, my dog went crazy when I let him outside. He ran frantically to the far side of the house, running back and forth, then disappeared around the corner. When I followed, I thought I saw him lying down outside his dog run, in back of the dog house. I called out to him, but received no response.
When I approached the object on the ground, I was shocked to find a large buck. He was dead, but I saw no wounds. I grabbed the dog, and took him inside. I called the local police, who came to my yard, examined the buck, and turned it over to reveal a wound about an inch in length. We both concluded it was an arrow wound. The patrolman and I dragged the buck out to the street, since they was no way to keep my dog away from it where it was. I called a hunter friend for advice, but he was of no help. I called the local deer dresser (butcher), and he advised me to eviscerate it as soon as possible. I really wasn't up for that. The policeman left, and I went inside, where my dog was still very restless. About 10 minutes later, two cars a a truck pulled up, including the same cop, the local wildlife management officer and two hunters. One of the hunters had shot the buck with an arrow in the woods next to our house just before sunset. To the west of our property is 24 acres of municipally owned, heavily wooded, green acres land. The Township contracts with a local hunting club to cull the local deer herd, which is quite large and increasing every season. The hunter had to break off his chase of the wounded buck, as he is not permitted to enter private property after dark. It was very dark when we found the buck, and I could focus my camera only by shining a flashlight on the corpse, so the images I took suck, but I think they convey the size of the buck. http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=1042686 Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
