Post by bluedot on Dec 15, 2016 22:11:06 GMT -5
Tom, I agree. I thought I heard a rifle shot on the 80 acres due north of this property (this property has a Knox, Indiana mailing address; and nobody has permission to hunt there. But I can only check 3 sides of the property and I didn't see any human footprints in the snow. There is a house on 10 acres to the East of that property, and that property runs the whole length of that 80 acres. Someone could have walked from that place, but since I don't have permission to walk on that 80 acres (from my understanding, nobody does - it's owned by a trust and they won't grant access to anyone) so I couldn't walk that property line to check for footprints without trespassing myself.
In 2011, I passed on a buck with 12" G2's and it was a 10 point, knowing that a larger buck was around the previous year. In 2012, I heard a shot and a bunch of whooping and hollering. I thought it was on the property that I hunt, so I walked to where I thought I heard it, and it was coming from that 10 acre property.
5 days later I was walking on the trail on the perimeter of the Knox, Indiana property and I see the buck that had the 12" G2's the previous year laying there, dead. It's butt was all eaten out by coyotes, and I couldn't find a bullet hole in the rest of the deer. Was it a "Texas heart shot" and they didn't recover the deer? If so, and I spotted it from 50 yds away, then they can't track a deer for crap and shouldn't even be hunting. I cut the head off and had a European Mount done. If you could all the points that you could hang a ring on, it has 17 points. The buck was probably 4 years old, so it shouldn't just have died from natural causes (I think).
Time will tell I guess.
In 2011, I passed on a buck with 12" G2's and it was a 10 point, knowing that a larger buck was around the previous year. In 2012, I heard a shot and a bunch of whooping and hollering. I thought it was on the property that I hunt, so I walked to where I thought I heard it, and it was coming from that 10 acre property.
5 days later I was walking on the trail on the perimeter of the Knox, Indiana property and I see the buck that had the 12" G2's the previous year laying there, dead. It's butt was all eaten out by coyotes, and I couldn't find a bullet hole in the rest of the deer. Was it a "Texas heart shot" and they didn't recover the deer? If so, and I spotted it from 50 yds away, then they can't track a deer for crap and shouldn't even be hunting. I cut the head off and had a European Mount done. If you could all the points that you could hang a ring on, it has 17 points. The buck was probably 4 years old, so it shouldn't just have died from natural causes (I think).
Time will tell I guess.