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<blockquote data-quote="Mike Belt" data-source="post: 4625127" data-attributes="member: 69"><p>reloadxx... Just a tip if that ever happens again....Climb down immediately and finish your deer. I shot what may have been my biggest buck so far and he dropped like a rock. He laid there and then began trashing and trying to drag himself. It looked like I had hit him back and high in the spine. After I saw he wasn't going to die soon I lowered my rifle and began to climb down. Between beginning my descent and getting to the ground he had regained his feet and stumbled off into a cane thicket. When I got to where he had fallen there was almost no blood and more of a watery substance. Evidently I had hit him just under the spine but above any organs. The shock had knocked him off his feet and reacted just as if he'd been spine shot. Almost no blood trail at all and I looked for several hours and never found him. As I trailed him down a narrow section of woods towards it's ending in the corner of a big bean field being worked by the farmer at the time the farmer stopped and told me he had just seen what sounded like my buck chasing a couple of does out of that corner of woods. I'm surmising my buck went on to live his life as usual even though being shot just a couple of hours prior to that. That "near" spine shot may put them down but if they regain their feet they may be gone forever. Shoot again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike Belt, post: 4625127, member: 69"] reloadxx... Just a tip if that ever happens again....Climb down immediately and finish your deer. I shot what may have been my biggest buck so far and he dropped like a rock. He laid there and then began trashing and trying to drag himself. It looked like I had hit him back and high in the spine. After I saw he wasn't going to die soon I lowered my rifle and began to climb down. Between beginning my descent and getting to the ground he had regained his feet and stumbled off into a cane thicket. When I got to where he had fallen there was almost no blood and more of a watery substance. Evidently I had hit him just under the spine but above any organs. The shock had knocked him off his feet and reacted just as if he'd been spine shot. Almost no blood trail at all and I looked for several hours and never found him. As I trailed him down a narrow section of woods towards it's ending in the corner of a big bean field being worked by the farmer at the time the farmer stopped and told me he had just seen what sounded like my buck chasing a couple of does out of that corner of woods. I'm surmising my buck went on to live his life as usual even though being shot just a couple of hours prior to that. That "near" spine shot may put them down but if they regain their feet they may be gone forever. Shoot again. [/QUOTE]
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