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Mercy kill.
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By the way, in case you missed it, Jeremiah was a bullfrog.
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I think I see a black cheek patch so I assume it is a him...but ya, under the right circumstances I would absolutely shoot him.
I've passed a lot like him, but sure as hell wouldn't apologize for killing him, assuming it was legal.
What's the deal with the mercy part? Broke leg? Hit by car?
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Only if it was trying to gore me.
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I had two doe/fawn tags and was shooting backup for a SIL. We had been watching it for a while wondering why it didn't run off and were speculating it was wounded. SIL took a shot at 200-ish yards and the antelope ran off. There was a 20mph wind (per weather report) at our back and the antelope was running away from us, with a noticeable limp, at a slight quartering angle to us and the wind. I shot at about 300 yards with two feet windage. We both heard the "whump" of a hit and the antelope went down a few yards later.
Turns out SIL had missed. There was an old (a day or two we were guessing) open wound below the neck where the hide and hair were gone in an area the size of a baseball. The blood in the area had dried into a big scab. My shot hit behind the ribs and blew up the liver. 110g AB @ 3163fps from my Roberts.
The right front leg was obviously infected but did not smell of gangrene, Nevertheless, we left it for the coyotes. The rest is being processed by Steve's Meat Market in Arvada (CO) and will go to the Denver Rescue Mission.
Last edited by Coyote_Hunter; 10/10/17. Reason: spelnig and correction to right leg not left
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Those young ones are "cut it with a fork tender". Is that a bullet crease across the top of the head? A friend of mine once shot one through the ears, just barely missed the back of it's head. It laid down and we thought it was mortally wounded as it let us walk right up on it. He shot it again as it stayed bedded down. No other wound on it.
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Nope. No bullet crease. Just the old wound below the neck (looked like a near miss on a broadside) and the entrance wound behind the ribs my bullet made. (No exit on that one.)
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I've found that my standards drop the farther I walk, so maybe.
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Although I put their skulls on the wall, I really hunt antelope for the experience of the hunt, and for those wonderful backstraps... So ya, that one might not be my first pick, but sure, he'd do just fine in the cooler! Guy
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Nope. No bullet crease. Just the old wound below the neck (looked like a near miss on a broadside) and the entrance wound behind the ribs my bullet made. (No exit on that one.) What bullet did you use?
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Yep/ I have shot a literal ton of them because some idiot had previously wounded them and not bothered to follow up.Makes me furious every time....
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Seems that pronghorns on the plains bring out the "if there's lead in the air there's hope" crowd more than any other big game animal.
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Nope. No bullet crease. Just the old wound below the neck (looked like a near miss on a broadside) and the entrance wound behind the ribs my bullet made. (No exit on that one.) What bullet did you use? 1989 Ruger M77 .257 Roberts, 110g AccuBond @ 3163fps, Leupold Vari-X III 4.5-14xAO upgraded with vertical knob and 'Varmint Hunter' reticle.
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If we shot every gimpy animal we spotted, we'd have to buy 2 more freezers every year. In Oregon a pronghorn tag comes by about 10 or 11 years. That being, I'm only going after the finest.
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I would shoot it but I wouldn’t leave it!
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I would not shoot it and then leave it. Looks like a black cheek patch. If so would be an illegal shoot.
If it was clearly injured I probably would not shoot because chances are that no meat could be recovered. Certainly would not shoot a buck on a doe/fawn tag regardless of any other circumstances. I am unaware of any mercy kill provisions in regs.
Did you punch your tag?
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I would not shoot it and then leave it. Looks like a black cheek patch. If so would be an illegal shoot.
If it was clearly injured I probably would not shoot because chances are that no meat could be recovered. Certainly would not shoot a buck on a doe/fawn tag regardless of any other circumstances. I am unaware of any mercy kill provisions in regs.
Did you punch your tag? 1. No one left it. It is currently being processed. 2. Wyoming defines "Fawn" as "a young-of-the-year antelope or young-of-the-year deer". "Buck antelope" is defined as a "male antelope with visible horns and dark cheek patch at the base of the ear". There was no patch at the base of the ear, just a thin line lower down. This one was a fawn by Wyoming's definition and I had a doe/fawn tag. It was a legal shot. 3. Yes, I punched my tag. And still had one left I never used.
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