@Nightmare3mo I suppose it is possible it got hit by a car but the circumstances surrounding the time if its disappearance, the gunshot and its death make it pretty clear to me. In the video, I am walking up a skid road. The nearest street is about 500 yards away
Sorry buddy for a rack to get white like that our has to be fired for quite sometime not days maybe months but even some of the racks I have that I have had for over a year are still not white like that one is
@YellowWolf187 You are absolutely correct. It does take a rack over a year to bleach and whiten.... this was not a nice brown polished rack though. He was still in velvet. When the velvet rots off it leaves the antlers all white and pithy. If I was a poacher, I certainly wouldnt take a buck whose antlers would look like that! Have a happy Thanksgiving. We have a lot to be thankful for even in these crazy times we live in! Dan
@gotrocksinhead This is correct, but notice the road? I HIGHLY doubt it was shot. But I doubt he's a poacher seeing how upset he actually was. Why would you poach such as small Buck?
If you found it the next day why does it look like it's months old there is no way you found that the next day I agree with the one of the early post your the poacher you killed it you just felt like finding someone else to blame if you are a hunter then you should know what a deer looks like the next day
you totally blow your cover with your words, a few days ago you heard a shot, yet the carcass is decomposed, the antlers are discolored and you point the camera right to it like youre some kind of hound dog, youre the poacher and you are PATHETIC
@ejvaughn86 The last trailcam pic I got of it was on 8-15. It died about 2 days later. I shot my search video on 9-13 and posted it on 9-14. I guess my couple days was actually a couple weeks. Nevertheless, how fast does a flock of buzzards and coyotes clean a carcass? ...days. Also, would you want to watch a vid of me walking around for a half hour?.. most people would get bored real quick! . Editing makes videos much more interesting to watch. Im not a poacher..
@knoxmotorsports That dead buck is missing a lot more than the velvet! It's missing velvet, meat, guts, brains, eyes, parts of its skin.... hmmm. 'Bout all that's left is the bones and dried up skin sinews and hair. The rest has been eaten or scattered all over the area. Now what's that you're smelling? Might want to take a shower... :) Thanks for pointing it out though. By the way, Im not a poacher... That would be real smart of me to post a deer I poached! Dan
What a beautiful animal, it's too bad that it was wasted. Stupid idiots, first they poach and then don't even track the deer down after they wounded it. If someone's going to hunt an animal they should at least have some bloody respect. I'm all for legal and controlled hunting even if I don't hunt (except with my camera). But poachers and people who hunt endangered animals are the lowest of the low in my eyes.
Screw poachers, anyone whose that desperate or just dum enough to shoot a deer like that is ruining hunting 4 me and everybody else. Good luck to u in life poachers, I hope u never have another chance at a honest trophy ever
Its very simple treat them the way they treated that Buck kill them out of season and leave them for the buzzards being my solution. Though I can admit I'm not a forgiving man
Wow that really sucks I think all poachers should get 10 years in prison and minimum hundred thousand dollars fine makes. It makes me sick. Hope someday you figure out who done this and have him prosecuted. Thanks for sharing the video have a great 2011.
yea that sucks but maybe there might be another bigger one show up on your property. i know in nc a lot of ppl get caught spotlighting but i dont see what the point in spotlighting and shooting a deer is if your gonna kill a deer, kill it right.
I hope that buck made many offspring for you and your family to hunt in the future.
Any way you could use some trail cams to catch the poachers? I would LOVE to see a follow up video in the future of you busting them if that is what is taking place.
@AesculusPavia Im not sure the mystry can ever be solved unless they are caught doing it again... hmmm. It would be tough but these guys are also stealing trail cameras too. Another neighbor lost 2 of his camers in the same area. He was pretty mad! I would have been too!
oouuuch, some people just don't understand how we hunters feels like. why killed this nice buck. two days before opening to. this is is sick, who ever you are.
thats a bunch of bull crap man..that all me friends do is poach and spot light,just because there to lazy to gett up and go out and actually hunt sooo alll they do is ride 4wheelers and spot light.my friend killed a 15 point poachin.it was a main frame 8 he had a bunch of kickers beatuiful deer but it had to gooo by sum dumbass on a 4wheeler
I can't even begin to guess how pissed you are!!! To do all that work and prepare for your hunting season and then have some piece of shit jackass mother fu..ing nieghbor shoot that buck for giggles. I would be out for blood of some kind if I were you.
its right beside the road it could have beeen hit by a car. the rile shot could have been anyone... talk to your neighbors nicely and ask them if they did it. dont show any anger. if that doesnt work ... sit them down with a bottle of whiskey and im sure they would tell you :P
@HuntFishTrap128 I cannot say 100% how it died because by the time I found it it was in the condition you saw. The circimstances surrounding it leave a pretty clear conclusion but getting hit by a car is another possibility. The night time gunshot, the stink within a couple days, talking to the neighbors who have also been watching it and brag about poaching, it showing up every day on the camera up till the gunshot then gone... too many things point to poaching. I do have a nice rack now :)
It is terribly unfortunate that this happened!! This is a pathetic waste of an animal. Did you find the bullet hole in it?? I am just wondering because I could hear all of the traffic below you, and I just want you to clarify that it 100% wasn't hit by a car and ran up there and died. Not doubting you at all, but am just asking.
Did your D.E.C. le you keep that antlers since it was on your property?? Not that it matters, I just think they should be yours.
@hunterknapp16 I cannot say 100% how it died because by the time I found it it was in the condition you saw. The circimstances surrounding it leave a pretty clear conclusion but getting hit by a car is another possibility. The night time gunshot, the stink within a couple days, talking to the neighbors who have also been watching it and brag about poaching, it showing up every day on the camera up till the gunshot then gone... too many things point to poaching. I havent asked...
Fair enough sir!! And I thank you for the super fast response!! I didnt realize you had heard a shot somehow I didn't hear that part of your video. And the bragging about poaching. None the less its a terrible waste, and I wish you the best of luck this season!!
Fucking trespassers and poachers. people at my cabin always go on our property but at least the dont shoot the deer. you wanna know whats funny, they walked right up to our no trespassing sign
i cant believe people would poach a deer its pathetic. i would never leave an animal that i shot what a waste of a beautiful buck. i hate people that poach animals
Hi Dan, cool idea with the lighter, ...oh poor animal, ...what´s about to put him in or near an ant-heap, maybe the skeletal is clear in a week or so? All the best my friend, Sepp PS: Nice you have those video from "him".
@Waldhandwerk It wont be long before the bones will be cleaned up and I'll go back and check it out. My father had watched him a lot but I had never seen him in person
VERT SAD ! A good lesson for your children to witness and pass on about this kind of greed. Just wait a few weeks and the smell should be gone then you can recover the bone and antlers.
So sad this happens. I have never faulted anyone for killing an animal if it is NEEDED. But I think this animal was targeted for horns and not the meat.
sorry to hurt ur feelings bud but that aint no 4 point
MegaPbrooks 2 months ago
Hmmm, is that a road?
Nightmare3mo 2 months ago
@Nightmare3mo I suppose it is possible it got hit by a car but the circumstances surrounding the time if its disappearance, the gunshot and its death make it pretty clear to me. In the video, I am walking up a skid road. The nearest street is about 500 yards away
gotrocksinhead 2 months ago
Sorry buddy for a rack to get white like that our has to be fired for quite sometime not days maybe months but even some of the racks I have that I have had for over a year are still not white like that one is
YellowWolf187 3 months ago
@YellowWolf187 You are absolutely correct. It does take a rack over a year to bleach and whiten.... this was not a nice brown polished rack though. He was still in velvet. When the velvet rots off it leaves the antlers all white and pithy. If I was a poacher, I certainly wouldnt take a buck whose antlers would look like that! Have a happy Thanksgiving. We have a lot to be thankful for even in these crazy times we live in! Dan
gotrocksinhead 3 months ago
@gotrocksinhead This is correct, but notice the road? I HIGHLY doubt it was shot. But I doubt he's a poacher seeing how upset he actually was. Why would you poach such as small Buck?
Nightmare3mo 2 months ago
If you found it the next day why does it look like it's months old there is no way you found that the next day I agree with the one of the early post your the poacher you killed it you just felt like finding someone else to blame if you are a hunter then you should know what a deer looks like the next day
YellowWolf187 3 months ago
@YellowWolf187 You are correct, it wasnt a couple days ago. Read the description.
gotrocksinhead 3 months ago
you totally blow your cover with your words, a few days ago you heard a shot, yet the carcass is decomposed, the antlers are discolored and you point the camera right to it like youre some kind of hound dog, youre the poacher and you are PATHETIC
ejvaughn86 4 months ago
@ejvaughn86 The last trailcam pic I got of it was on 8-15. It died about 2 days later. I shot my search video on 9-13 and posted it on 9-14. I guess my couple days was actually a couple weeks. Nevertheless, how fast does a flock of buzzards and coyotes clean a carcass? ...days. Also, would you want to watch a vid of me walking around for a half hour?.. most people would get bored real quick! . Editing makes videos much more interesting to watch. Im not a poacher..
gotrocksinhead 4 months ago
Why does the buck on the trail cam have velvet on its antlers and the kill you found a few days later been rubbed clean ,,,I smell something ,,,
knoxmotorsports 4 months ago
@knoxmotorsports That dead buck is missing a lot more than the velvet! It's missing velvet, meat, guts, brains, eyes, parts of its skin.... hmmm. 'Bout all that's left is the bones and dried up skin sinews and hair. The rest has been eaten or scattered all over the area. Now what's that you're smelling? Might want to take a shower... :) Thanks for pointing it out though. By the way, Im not a poacher... That would be real smart of me to post a deer I poached! Dan
gotrocksinhead 4 months ago
video 10+
1000kalado 4 months ago
@1000kalado Thanks
gotrocksinhead 4 months ago
What a beautiful animal, it's too bad that it was wasted. Stupid idiots, first they poach and then don't even track the deer down after they wounded it. If someone's going to hunt an animal they should at least have some bloody respect. I'm all for legal and controlled hunting even if I don't hunt (except with my camera). But poachers and people who hunt endangered animals are the lowest of the low in my eyes.
shewolf51 5 months ago
I mean any chance at a honest trophy
MrPotatoChip15 5 months ago
Screw poachers, anyone whose that desperate or just dum enough to shoot a deer like that is ruining hunting 4 me and everybody else. Good luck to u in life poachers, I hope u never have another chance at a honest trophy ever
MrPotatoChip15 5 months ago
Apparently 3 poachers don't like what you've posted.
HookFynn1 6 months ago
beautiful buck.... its a shame
NdBowhunter2 6 months ago
They can burn in the deepest depths of hell. Poachers are lower than Shark Shit.
OutdoorDreamer733 6 months ago
PATHETIC. This pisses me off.
homeostasis4me 7 months ago
you should go ahead and drag it on their fron lawn and leave it there
daretohaveorangehair 7 months ago
Its very simple treat them the way they treated that Buck kill them out of season and leave them for the buzzards being my solution. Though I can admit I'm not a forgiving man
thunderdreamer1 7 months ago
i would be set up cams all around the edge
outdoorsman106 8 months ago
I hate people like diss
bucksnbeards72 9 months ago
i fet the same way when we had a monster 6 and got killed by a bug that was going around in our area, 3 days before opeaning bow!!
it sucks
ishotapig 11 months ago
@ishotapig That would stink too!
gotrocksinhead 11 months ago
Wow that really sucks I think all poachers should get 10 years in prison and minimum hundred thousand dollars fine makes. It makes me sick. Hope someday you figure out who done this and have him prosecuted. Thanks for sharing the video have a great 2011.
SHOOTERNW 11 months ago
@SHOOTERNW Thank you. Hopefully they'll get caught someday. Things have a way of coming around...
gotrocksinhead 11 months ago
yea that sucks but maybe there might be another bigger one show up on your property. i know in nc a lot of ppl get caught spotlighting but i dont see what the point in spotlighting and shooting a deer is if your gonna kill a deer, kill it right.
backwoodsdeerhunter 11 months ago
@backwoodsdeerhunter I agree!
gotrocksinhead 11 months ago
Sad...
I hope that buck made many offspring for you and your family to hunt in the future.
Any way you could use some trail cams to catch the poachers? I would LOVE to see a follow up video in the future of you busting them if that is what is taking place.
AesculusPavia 1 year ago
@AesculusPavia Im not sure the mystry can ever be solved unless they are caught doing it again... hmmm. It would be tough but these guys are also stealing trail cameras too. Another neighbor lost 2 of his camers in the same area. He was pretty mad! I would have been too!
gotrocksinhead 11 months ago
oouuuch, some people just don't understand how we hunters feels like. why killed this nice buck. two days before opening to. this is is sick, who ever you are.
TheHmooboutdoor 1 year ago
thats a bunch of bull crap man..that all me friends do is poach and spot light,just because there to lazy to gett up and go out and actually hunt sooo alll they do is ride 4wheelers and spot light.my friend killed a 15 point poachin.it was a main frame 8 he had a bunch of kickers beatuiful deer but it had to gooo by sum dumbass on a 4wheeler
bossgobbler21 1 year ago
@bossgobbler21 Ya, it really stinks.
gotrocksinhead 1 year ago
ugh way later than two days
backwoodsboys97 1 year ago
I can't even begin to guess how pissed you are!!! To do all that work and prepare for your hunting season and then have some piece of shit jackass mother fu..ing nieghbor shoot that buck for giggles. I would be out for blood of some kind if I were you.
Boughtone 1 year ago
@Boughtone I am very patient. Someday....
gotrocksinhead 1 year ago
@gotrocksinhead It's just hard to believe that someone would just shoot an awesome buck like that and just leave it to rot. It just makes me sick.
Boughtone 1 year ago
its right beside the road it could have beeen hit by a car. the rile shot could have been anyone... talk to your neighbors nicely and ask them if they did it. dont show any anger. if that doesnt work ... sit them down with a bottle of whiskey and im sure they would tell you :P
HuntFishTrap128 1 year ago
@HuntFishTrap128 I cannot say 100% how it died because by the time I found it it was in the condition you saw. The circimstances surrounding it leave a pretty clear conclusion but getting hit by a car is another possibility. The night time gunshot, the stink within a couple days, talking to the neighbors who have also been watching it and brag about poaching, it showing up every day on the camera up till the gunshot then gone... too many things point to poaching. I do have a nice rack now :)
gotrocksinhead 1 year ago
screw freakin poachers they r gay
dudemaster1000 1 year ago
It is terribly unfortunate that this happened!! This is a pathetic waste of an animal. Did you find the bullet hole in it?? I am just wondering because I could hear all of the traffic below you, and I just want you to clarify that it 100% wasn't hit by a car and ran up there and died. Not doubting you at all, but am just asking.
Did your D.E.C. le you keep that antlers since it was on your property?? Not that it matters, I just think they should be yours.
hunterknapp16 1 year ago
@hunterknapp16 I cannot say 100% how it died because by the time I found it it was in the condition you saw. The circimstances surrounding it leave a pretty clear conclusion but getting hit by a car is another possibility. The night time gunshot, the stink within a couple days, talking to the neighbors who have also been watching it and brag about poaching, it showing up every day on the camera up till the gunshot then gone... too many things point to poaching. I havent asked...
gotrocksinhead 1 year ago
@gotrocksinhead
Fair enough sir!! And I thank you for the super fast response!! I didnt realize you had heard a shot somehow I didn't hear that part of your video. And the bragging about poaching. None the less its a terrible waste, and I wish you the best of luck this season!!
hunterknapp16 1 year ago
@hunterknapp16 Thank you and the same to you. Dan
gotrocksinhead 1 year ago
Fucking trespassers and poachers. people at my cabin always go on our property but at least the dont shoot the deer. you wanna know whats funny, they walked right up to our no trespassing sign
hunterfishercamper5 1 year ago
I hope you can help bring those worthless human beings to justice. People like that give hunters bad names.
kinsmanjd 1 year ago
To bad some people have no respect.
CHUNK541 1 year ago
i cant believe people would poach a deer its pathetic. i would never leave an animal that i shot what a waste of a beautiful buck. i hate people that poach animals
shortbus58 1 year ago
I hate poachers with a passion
blacktailbuckee 1 year ago
@blacktailbuckee It's frustrating when you try to do it the right way.
gotrocksinhead 1 year ago
That Sucks
JcRammstein 1 year ago
@JcRammstein Yea it does.
gotrocksinhead 1 year ago
Im sure the mulie would be happy for you to use whats left and not let anything else go to waste. What a shame...
NicholasKelley111 1 year ago
@NicholasKelley111 I totally agree
gotrocksinhead 1 year ago
Way sucks man. Poachers suck :( And people who can't or are too lazy to track what they shoot too. grrrrrrrrrrrrr.
wagouche 1 year ago
Hi Dan, cool idea with the lighter, ...oh poor animal, ...what´s about to put him in or near an ant-heap, maybe the skeletal is clear in a week or so? All the best my friend, Sepp PS: Nice you have those video from "him".
Waldhandwerk 1 year ago
@Waldhandwerk It wont be long before the bones will be cleaned up and I'll go back and check it out. My father had watched him a lot but I had never seen him in person
gotrocksinhead 1 year ago
VERT SAD ! A good lesson for your children to witness and pass on about this kind of greed. Just wait a few weeks and the smell should be gone then you can recover the bone and antlers.
joe2trees 1 year ago
@joe2trees Yeah, a real bummer... but not a total loss. At least now I'll put him to use. Yes, a very good lesson!
gotrocksinhead 1 year ago
So sad this happens. I have never faulted anyone for killing an animal if it is NEEDED. But I think this animal was targeted for horns and not the meat.
I know you will find a good use for what is left.
Take Care
TheSwineSlayer 1 year ago
@TheSwineSlayer I totally agree. If you NEED the food thats one thing. This was just getting a jump on the hunting season.
Its good to hear from you.
gotrocksinhead 1 year ago
i agree with livinghistoryschool take what you can and turn them into usable tools
timothy4602 1 year ago
@timothy4602 i agree too
gotrocksinhead 1 year ago
we have some jerks in this world dont we. Did you cut the horns or did you not want to mess with it?
jacksoncole79 1 year ago
@jacksoncole79 I'll wait a while till the bugs clean it up. I stuck it under a bush so noone would find it before I can get back.
gotrocksinhead 1 year ago
Commemorate him with some antler tools, and bone tools, a lot of wasted meat.
LivingHistorySchool 1 year ago
@LivingHistorySchool Thats the plan. Yeah, what a waste!
gotrocksinhead 1 year ago